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The Berlin Wall, 20 years gone – The Big Picture

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The Google Story

50 Years of (Space) Exploration

National Geographic has compiled a stunningly rich visualization of the past 50 years space explorations, resulting in an interactive map showing us information about all solar, lunar and interplanetary missions that took place during this last half century:

Art by Sean McNaughton, National Geographic Staff and Samuel Velasco, 5W Infographics.

Click on the image to interact with the map, or simply view the full sized map here.

Meet WikiReader

In a world filled with noise and constant interruptions comes a device specifically designed to facilitate your focus. It’s a small, simple three buttons device, equiped with a e-ink thouch screen, low power comsuption and packs inside all the things we ever wanted to know more about (well almost everthying I bet!) just check out the introduction video:

Is it just me, or this reminds me the Hitchhiker’s?

Failure?

The following video is part of the ‘Dream the Impossible’ Documentary Series by Honda, a series of short documentary films celebrating those who have the courage to turn failure into success and in the process giving live to dreams

Honda is a company founded by a dreamer ‘Soichiro Honda‘ a man known to ask their employees to take risks! A man renown for allowing a hundred times, as long we succeed once.

Risk is an inherent part of living, learning and experiencing and only thru failures we can achieve that. So, sometimes you just need to put yourself to the test, take risks, move away from your basis and see how this affects you in unexpected ways.

In the end, Risk seems to be a cultural problem, varying from culture to culture, where some see risk and failure as positive thing and others seem to find close to reckless behavior.

Did you Know?

25 de Abril

Today marks the 35th anniversary of the “Revolução dos Cravos” (The Carnation Revolution), or simply the “25 de Abril“, the date marks the left-leaning military coup started on April 25, 1974, that effectively changed the Portuguese regime from an authoritarian dictatorship to a democracy, ending the Estado Novo, the longest authoritarian regime in Western Europe

In some ways the revolution hasn’t ended yet…

(a great suggestion by Ana to include on this post)