The 21 greatest graduation speeches of the last 60 years

Vox: The 21 greatest graduation speeches of the last 60 years
by German Lopez on May 11, 2016
"Graduation speeches are the last opportunity for a high school or college to educate its students. It's unsurprising, then, that these institutions often pull in some of the world's most powerful people to leave an equally powerful impression on their students. Here are the best of those speeches and some of the sections that resonate the most..." (May 11, 2016)
To read and watch the full article on the Vox website here.

Chris Botti in Boston, 2008.

Beautiful Sound of Trumpet by Chris Botti in Boston, 2008

Christopher Stephen "Chris" Botti (born October 12, 1962), is an Italian-American trumpeter and composer. Wikipedia - Chris Botti

Pavel Levin, "Chris Botti in Boston features trumpeter Chris Botti along with a bevy of name artists performing live with the Boston Pops Orchestra at Symphony Hall in 2008. Fully documented as a concert film and album, the night is an intimate and soulful birds-eye view of the supple-toned trumpeter who has grown into his role as a virtuoso since his time backing up Sting ..." 

Asians Eat Weird Things

Asians Eat Weird Things 

Data visulization - a tutorial

Data visulization - a tutorial
Source: Tyler Rinker's blog

This is a nice video about how to visualize your data more effectively.

You can find the whole blog with slides and data here: The Mechanics of Data Visualization.

Revolutions: The role of Statistics in the Higgs Boson discovery

The role of Statistics in the Higgs Boson discovery
Source: Revolution Analytics
News is starting to leak that the Large Hadron Collider may have accomplished its primary mission of confirming the existence of the hypothesised and heretofore elusive subatomic particle, the Higgs Boson. And sure, billions of Euros worth of state-of-the-art high-energy machinery and an army of experimental and theoretical physicists probably had something to do with the discovery. But did you know Statistics played a part as well? Check out this explainer video from PhD comics, below (an R chart even appears at the 00:27 mark):
Full text: here

What's in the world is a Higgs Boson? Source: NYTimes.com


The Higgs Boson Explained from PHD Comics on Vimeo.

Exercise: 八段锦

Exercise: 八段锦 (Baduanjin)
from Wikipedia


Full Article in Chinese
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八段锦(Ba Duan Jin)是一种在中国古代发明的健身方法，由八种肢体动作组成，内容包括肢体运动和气息调理。八段锦有人认为是气功的一种。也有演變成中国武术一种。


八段锦和五禽戏、太极拳等，都是中国民间广为流传的健身方法。1982年6月28日，中国卫生部、教育部和当时的国家体育委员会发出通知，把八段锦等中国传统健身法作为在医学类大学中推广的"保健体育课"的内容之一。2003年中国国家体育总局把重新编排后的八段锦等健身法作为"健身气功"的内容向全国推广。


"八段锦"这个名字，一般认为有两层意思：1、表示这是一种集锦多种练习方法的功法；2、源自一种名为"八段锦"的织锦，表示练习时动作连
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Full Article in English
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The Baduanjin (simplified Chinese: 八段锦气功; traditional Chinese: 八段錦氣功; pinyin: Baduànjin qìgong) is one of the most common forms of Chinese qigong used as exercise. Variously translated as Eight Pieces of Brocade, Eight Section Brocade, Eight Silken Movements and others, the name of the form generally refers to how the eight individual movements of the form characterize and impart a silken quality (like that of a piece of brocade) to the body and its energy. The Baduanjin is primarily designated as a form of medical qigong, meant to improve health. This is in contrast to religious or martial forms of qigong. However, this categorization does not preclude the form's use by martial artists as a supplementary exercise, and this practice is frequent.
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 Dietary Supplements & Herbal Information

• United States Department of Agriculture (USDA): Dietary supplement  and Herbal information.
• NIH: Medlineplus drugs, herbs and supplements.
• American Botanical Council.
• Mayo Clinic drug info.
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
• HolisticOnLIne allows you to search our Herb Knowledgebase based on the scientific name of the herbs or by the common names used.
• Herb Research Foundation.
• Goji - Wolfberry - 枸杞
• Wikipedia. article
• Lingzhi mushroom - Reishi - 灵芝
• Wikipedia article
• Reishi Mushroom by  Dr. Gilbert Ng, original article on Geocities before 2009
• Magic Mushroom by Mr. Suketu Desai of India
• Trametes versicolor,Coriolus versicolor Polyporus versicolor - Turkey Tail -  雲芝
• Paul Stamets at TEDMED 2011: Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world.
• Paul Stamets (2012) Turkey tail mushrooms help immune system fight cancer
• Can Mushrooms Help the Immune System Fight Cancer? Interview With Paul Stamets, Mycologist. (about Paul Stamets)
• A Wikipedia articles: Trametes versicolor,  雲芝
• Apricot Seed and Vitamin 17 -  杏/苦杏仁苷
• Amygdalin - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
• Apricot,  杏, Apricot kernel, Vitamin 17, 苦杏仁苷 - Wikipedia.com
• Stephen Krashen (2009) Are Apricot Kernels Toxic?
• 5 Things You Need to Know About Vitamin B 17 (Laetrile) by Ashley Rindsberg - Livestrong.com

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

• Biology
• Angela Belcher: Using nature to grow batteries
• David Bolinsky animates a cell
• Molecular Visualizations of DNA,  DNA Replication Process
• Science
• The Higgs Boson Explained
• Education
• Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education
• Carol Dweek: The power of believing that you can improve
• Coursra offers high quality courses from the top universities, for free to everyone. Here is the more story about Coursra by NPR.
• Khan Academy offers his free lessons in thousands of highly visual 10-minute chunks. Math and science dominate, and other topics for adult learners. It's been funded by Google and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
• Art of Problem Soving, especially for the middle and high school level.
• Open Yale Courses
• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Harvard Open Courses
• Princeton University: WebMedia - Lectures
• Smarthistory focuses on art history, from cave paintings to Warhol
• R! Two-minute Tutorial.
• Supercourse - Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health. Topics about Diabetes
• Thought, Inspiration, Differentiality
• TED is a set of annual conferences that brings together some of the world's best and brightest thinkers to deliver talks on their realms of expertise.
• TEDMED is a community of people who are passionate about imagining the future of health and medicine.
• Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed
• David Brooks: The social animal
• Patricia Ryan: Don't insist on English!
• RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms
• Travel
• The Roadtrippers road trip planner helps you discover, book, and create travel itineraries of the best places and experiences along the way. Also, there are apps for handhold devices.
• The airbnb helps you to rent unique places to stay from local hosts in 190+ countries.
• Hipmunk lets you search for flights across major airlines, giving you easy-to-scan results in a grid sorted by agony ("a combination of price, duration and number of stops").
• Money Saving
  • FatWallet: Save with coupons and deals - get cash back
  • Clark Howard: Advice You Can Trust. Money in Your Pocket
  • Caslist provides local classifieds and forums for jobs, housing, for sale, personals, services, local community, and events.
  • Car shopping: if you are looking for a car, you might visit these websites to get a good price:
    • Truecar, a hassle-free car-buying experience from a nationwide network of certified dealers.
    • U.S. News Best Cars, a best car, truck and SUV rankings and reviews from U.S. News.
    • Kelley Blue Book.
    • Edmunds - New cars, used cards, car reviews and car prices.
• Health
• HealthGrades provides the rating grades of doctors, dentists and hospitals on a five-star scale for everything from communication skills to wait times.
• 身與心的平衡 (The balance of body and mind) and 中醫世界 (the world of Chinese medicine)
• 張釗漢疼痛醫療基金會 - 原始點吉林演講
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)  - Biomedical Research & Science Education
• File Utility
• Smallpdf is a fast and powerful online converter; it can convert in both ways between PDF and files of MS-Office, also can compress PDF, unlock, merge and split PDF. There is no limits to file size, no ad watermarks - just a free and simple online PDF converter.
• Any2DjVu Server is offered by DjVu Zone to convert pdf etc. into documents in DjVu format.
• Extractpdf.com can extract Images, Text or EVEN Fonts from a PDF File.
• Zamzar is an online format converter which allows to convert media between different formats. It can convert document, music, videos, images, and even archived files. The free service provides a file size up to 100 MB file size limit. It converts MOBI file quite well.
• TransferBigFiles is helpful to send and receive files that are too big for email attachments. The free account allows you to send files that are as big as 100 MB.
• SendThisFile can send a big file up to 2 GB for free, but you need create an account.
• Dropbox has much more features but also can be used for big file transfer.
• GPS
• GPS Visualizer is a free, easy-to-use online utility that creates maps and profiles from GPS data (tracks and waypoints, including GPX files), driving routes, street addresses, or simple coordinates. Use it to see where you've been, plan where you're going, or visualize geographic data.
• GPSFileDepot is a great source for GPS files including custom maps, custom points of interest, ximage hosting, articles, tutorials, and tools.
• Free routable maps for Garmin brand GPS devices using data of the OpenStreetMap (Mapquest, Public Transport)
• Online Maps: Google Map, 百度地图 (Baidu Map), Bing Map, OpenStreetMap
• Miscellaneous
  • Copy-and-paste the URL on SaveFrom.net to download files from Rapidshare, FileFactory, Youtube, Google, and Metacafe. For Youtube, you can simply add "ss" after "http://" to download the video.
  • Mr. Number controls who can call you and when with status, blocking, and caller ID for mobile phones.
  • Video conference/chat
  • AnyMeeting is an ad supported group video conference website.
  • FreeConference.com provides free unlimited conference calls.
  • Zendesk is a calming music source.
  • Grooveshark is a great place to listen to music
  • OpenDNS is the leading provider of Internet security and DNS services. It  protects kids from online violence, pornography, and other unsavory Web material.