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FYI Friday, April 5: Week in Review

 

LIFE

screen-shot-2013-03-26-at-12-45-08-pm  Improve Your WiFi Signal Using a Soda Can

When your life is nothing but trolling and viral videos, having a bad wi-fi connection can be incredibly irritating. Poor loading times, lost connections, and more can put a strain on your time browsing the internet. However, there are some ways to improve your Wi-Fi connection. FULL ARTICLE.

HEALTH

yoga-1  Why Health Integrity Matters, or The Power of Being Honest With Yourself

Today we have infinite possibilities, and we suffer as well as benefit a great deal for it. We have the option of sitting on the couch all weekend watching a Game of Thrones marathon. We have the potential to eat at McDonald’s for thirty days straight. We can buy a pack of cigarettes despite the fact we’re hooked up to an oxygen tank. We can have our doctor up our insulin dosage and buy a large Slurpee or a Krispy Kreme on the way home. We can stress ourselves to our last, pathetic nerve (and adrenal exhaustion) by living on too much work, too little sleep, too much worry, and too many stimulants. We have the choice – and that’s exactly what it is: a choice. Whatever our past, whatever our present condition, however, we are always free to make a different next choice. FULL ARTICLE.

TECHNOLOGY

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Top 10 Tech Stories from March

Virtual fences for cows. Projects for Raspberry Pi microcomputers. A teen invents a solution for cleaning up ocean plastic. Charging your cell phone with text messages. These and other awesome stories from March are rounded up here so you can get caught up quickly.  FULL ARTICLE.

40-years-of-cellphone-history  Cell-ebration! 40 Years of  Cell Phone History

Today’s mobile movement is all about efficiency and multitasking. But with the first cellphone in 1973, you could place a phone call and get a workout at the same time. After all, the phone weighed 2.5 pounds.

The cellphone turned 40 on Wednesday, April 3. Its creator, Martin Cooper, 84, placed the first mobile phone call on the streets of New York City — he phoned his rival, Joel Engel, head of research at Bell Labs. You can imagine how cheeky that exchange was. FULL ARTICLE.


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SPECIAL EDITION: 30 Year Anniversary of Michael Jackson’s Moonwalk

And what a performer he was. There are no words for the awesomeness that happened 30 years ago tonight. Check out his amazing moves below:

There’s a great Rolling Stone article about it too!


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Michael Jordan’s 50 Greatest Plays of all Time

In honor of Michael Jordan’s birthday, we’d like to showcase some of his very best moments on the court. Check them out here.

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – M. J.


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Can You Go Vegan For 30-Days?

http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/want-change-take-colleen-patrick-goudreaus-30-day-vegan-challenge.html


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FYI- Friday: Week In Review

ENVIRONMENT

26 Things We Can All Agree On

Chances are you know someone who’s had cancer. Or seen litter on the ground. Or taken a second look at an unhealthy school lunch.
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TECHNOLOGY

Here Are the People Behind Google Doodles

Google Doodles are the Cracker Jack prizes of the Internet, the digital back of the cereal box, a quirk that humanize the giant search company. And it’s funny because the Doodles themselves exist in a sort of mysterious world—they pop up one day and then disappear.
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ART

Artist’s Incredible Life-Like Underwater Sculptures Help Rebuild Coral (Video)

It’s a sobering fact that the world’s coral reefs — habitat to a quarter of marine wildlife — are facing serious danger from ocean pollution and acidification, warming temperatures and human pressures like overfishing and tourism.
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HEALTH & FITNESS

What Is Bikestorming? (Video)

The United Nations-sponsored Rio+20 meetings were reportedly a pretty big letdown. In spite of the huge problems our planet and its inhabitants face, we humans seem unable to move together collectively to implement world-changing goals.
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