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Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/12/27/his-arms-numb-an-officer-punched-his-way-through-a-frozen-pond-to-save-a-submerged-boy/?utm_term=.1113177588eb

Poem-a-Day is the original and only daily digital poetry series featuring over 250 new, previously unpublished poems by today’s talented poets each year. On weekdays, poems are accompanied by exclusive commentary and audio by the poets. The series highlights classic poems on weekends.

Link:https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem-day

It has sold millions of copies, is perhaps the greatest novel in the science-fiction canon and Star Wars wouldn’t have existed without it. Frank Herbert’s Dune should endure as a politically relevant fantasy from the Age of Aquarius

Link:https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/03/dune-50-years-on-science-fiction-novel-world

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The shrill clatter of pointed keys, piercing through white paper at a frantic speed? Certainly not my idea of music. On a visit last month to the offices of braille lifestyle magazine White Print, I was expecting a standard printing press.

Link: https://www.thesplicenewsroom.com/india-braille-magazine-white-print/

Link: http://www.qdcomic.com/blog/1996/01/fun-with-stelarc.html

“I’m tired of politics, I just want to talk about my art,” I sometimes hear artists—and musicians, actors, writers, etc.—say. And I sometimes see their fans say, “you should shut up about politics and just talk about your art.”

Link: http://www.openculture.com/2017/03/download-influential-avant-garde-magazines-from-the-early-20th-century.html

We know a lot of factual information about the starling—its size and voice, where it lives, how it breeds and migrates—but what remains a mystery is how it flies in murmurations, or flocks, without colliding. This short film by Jan van IJken was shot in the Netherlands, and it captures the birds gathering at dusk, just about to start their “performance.” Listen well and you’ll be able to hear how this beautiful phenomenon got its name.

Link: https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/short-film-showcase/00000158-457d-d0be-a1dc-4f7f8e650000

People ask me all the time why I want to be a reporter. It’s a dying industry, they say!

I get why people think that. Everywhere I turn I see bad news about the news: like how people don’t buy newspapers anymore. Or how so many newspapers have had to close, and how the ones that have stayed open have had to cut their staffs. The future, they say, is bleak.

Link: https://orangestreetnews.com/2017/11/06/osn-editorial-why-i-believe-in-the-future-of-journalism/

In India, we have these huge families. I bet a lot of you all must have heard about it. Which means that there are a lot of family events. So as a child, my parents used to drag me to these family events.

But the one thing that I always looked forward to was playing around with my cousins. And there was always this one uncle who used to be there, always ready, jumping around with us, having games for us, making us kids have the time of our lives.

Link: https://www.ted.com/talks/mileha_soneji_simple_hacks_for_life_with_parkinson_s/transcript

Even if you hate spiders, you will love this one. Joshua Slice has put together a short animation and asked his nephew Lucas to do the voice acting. The quirky result turned out to be great, and we’re hoping Pixar turns it into a feature film.

Link:https://www.boredpanda.com/adorable-animation-lucas-the-spider-joshua-slice/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=AwkwardFamily

The engagement began as notification more than proposal.

Samuel J. Siatta was an inmate in the Shawnee Correctional Center, a state penitentiary in southern Illinois, serving a six-year sentence for a home invasion in which he had struck another man with a frying pan. Ashley Volk was his off-again, on-again girlfriend since the sixth grade. It was early 2016. She had driven six hours to visit him between bartending shifts.

Link:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/fashion/weddings/sam-siatta-marries-ashley-volk.html