Google Employees Love Their Job

This Is Why Google Employees Love Their Job

Google is famous not only for being a multimillion company, creating one of the biggest (if not the biggest) search engines that currently exist on the web. It is also revered and coveted by many other companies for its smart tactics regarding its employees. Tactics that have resulted in Google employees giving it the highest rating year after year. Lots of myth surrounds…

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10 Things You Can do to Change Your Life in a Year

10 Things You Can do to Change Your Life in a Year

December is nearing its end, and the Christmas craze has passed, along with the start of wondering what one's New Year's resolutions might be. Each year, we hear that countdown and promise ourselves that this year will be different than the last, that we shall do things, see people, go places, be different, be spectacular, be unique, and ultimately make a change in…

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Movies That Will Make You a Better Person

5 Movies That Will Make You a Better Person

This the season to be jolly, the season of mind-numbingly fattening dinners, and sometimes – of dodging mental bullets from nosy relatives. It is also the season when all TV channels present us with a barrage of feel-good movies that are supposed to inspire us, reveal the meaning of goodness and yuletide virtue in our hearts, and, ultimately, make us better people. I…

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Organic Architecture Home Designs Inspired by Nature

Organic Architecture: Amazing Sustainable Home Designs Inspired by Nature

When we think of the word “house”, we probably conjure the image of the conventional rectangle-with-triangle-roof shape, the kind we used to draw in our elementary grade pictures. Nowadays, architecture is widely taken for granted; it is safe to deduce that in the corporate spirit of our times, architecture is mostly a means of accommodation and practicality; aesthetics are somewhat overlooked, especially in…

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Daan-Roosegaarde solar energy

How Solar Energy Makes Everyday Life Functional and Beautiful

Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde is not a stranger to the art of combining solar energy with art and architecture... These first few shy steps into incorporating solar energy and utilizing it for our everyday lives, in order to make them more beautiful, but most of all, more practical and energy-conservative, shows not only great promise but also great ambition. His recent project for…

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The Hang Drum A World of Harmonies

The Hang Drum: A World of Harmonies in your Hands

I want you to remember one of those fantasy movies that TV played during the holiday season and usually starred some faerie or mermaid story of sorts. Normally, the faeries/mermaids/whatever would have a banquet at some point in the movie, and you'd hear this beautiful, graceful, ethereal sound. I want you to remember that sound. And now I want you to imagine it…

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7 Reasons That Adopting a Pet Is One of the Best Decisions You Will Ever Make‏

or For many of us, adopting a pet has been a part of daily life. For others, it was an unrequited dream, hindered by parental, spatial, or other restrictions. And for lots of others, it has just never occurred as a concept. And yet, having a four-legged companion (or a winged one, or one who lives in the water) can actually be very…

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The Touching Story of Loukanikos and Other Greek Riot Dogs

It was a quiet day in May 2014, when the Greek riot dog that had been on Time's "Personalities of the year" list in 2011, was sleeping peacefully as his heart stopped beating on the couch of his human caretaker. The dog's name was Loukanikos, the Greek word for "Sausage." He was 10 years old, and he will be remembered. Loukanikos will be…

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