Jul 29, 2009 
Robert Lang is a pioneer of the newest kind of origami — using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful.
Do yourself and the world a favor: align your life with your passion
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Download (from iTunes) a free podcast “Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers” by Robert Sapolsky.
For more information on stress from Robert Sapolsky, watch the National Geographics video “Stress: Portrait of a Killer.” Available at Amazon.com and Netflix.
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
- Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)
This is the first of many cartoons I plan to post on this blog.
Feel free to download it for your personal use.
I believe in sharing. Feel free to download the cartoons on this blog for your personal use.
You can print them out and put them to your wall, post them in your blog, add them to a PowerPoint presentation, print them out on to posters, T-shirts, coffee mugs, a mouse pad, homemade greeting cards, or whatever, as long as it’s for your own personal use.
As long as you’re not trying to make money off it and you’re giving me attribution, go for it.
My licensing terms are pretty open.
If you see a cartoon you like, here’s what you can do:
- Download the high-resolution image to your hard drive.
(To download an image: right-click on the image and select “Save Link As”) - Upload the image to Cafepress.com
- Create your own cool personal item, such as a T-Shirt or coffee mug.
Soon you’ll have a crowd of people asking you about your new shirt (or mug).
It’s quick. It’s easy.
I make no money from this. It’s my gift to you. Enjoy.
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans. The moment one definitely commits one self, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
- Goethe
Daniel Libeskind shares 17 words that underlie his vision for architecture — raw, risky, emotional, radical — and that offer inspiration for any bold creative pursuit.
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Five Dangerous Things
by Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School
The Tinkering School is a summer program that teaches kids to build things. How to raise kids to be creative, competent, and in control of the environment around them.
What kind of danger, real or wildly overestimated, were you exposed to as a kid?
Was it worth the risk?
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