Last night at my Toastmasters meeting (it’s a club devoted to help member practice their public speaking), a presenter asked[…]
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More than geography, these maps offer a picto-statistical image of poignant facts about humanity. I ran into them on the[…]
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I once talked to a former drug addict who was a roadie for a rock-n-roll band. He shared about getting[…]
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A map created at the University of Virginia provides a layout of everyone in America–yes, everyone, which means something like[…]
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In 1991, Vietnamese man Ho Khanh was wandering the wilderness of Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park: He didn’t want to[…]
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I recently read how when the Twitter guys were first starting out many people told them, “That’ll never catch on.”[…]
Read moreA School Without Computers
As you may have read earlier this month, I was asked to help a school in Tanzania, Africa raise money[…]
Read moreOn Syria
Hello The Periphery readers! My name is Niaroo. I’m what you might call an extra terrestrial, or simply, an alien.[…]
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Because they’ve been the vehicle for a lot of bad news and have become a symbol for government overreach, I’m[…]
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