Along with the Zen Hospice Project which he directs, palliative care specialist BJ Miller helps patients face their own deaths realistically, comfortably, and on their own terms. Through the work of Zen Hospice Project, Miller is cultivating a model for palliative care organizations around the world, and emphasizing healthcare’s quixotic relationship to the inevitability of death. Miller’s passion for palliative care stems from personal experience — a shock sustained while a Princeton undergraduate cost him three limbs and nearly killed him.
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The team at NOWNESS sent their cameras to Derbyshire’s historic Chatsworth House estate with director Marcus Werner, which is where they met up with Peregrine Cavendish, a.k.a. the 12th Duke of Devonshire. In the video above we get an incredible look at the sprawling 105-acre estate founded in 1555. You can learn more by visiting NOWNESS.com and Chatsworth.org.
Humans have a special connection with animals, with Penn State paleoanthropologists showing that this connection goes beyond mere affection. This research indicates that the interdependence of our ancestors with other animal species played a key role in human evolution over the past 2.6 million years. This bond is unique and universal to our species, say the researchers, since “No other mammal routinely adopts other species in the wild – no gazelles take in baby cheetahs, no mountain lions raise baby deer.”
EVOL is a freelance motion graphics designer and editor — as well as a burgeoning mashup aficionado. Recently he put together this terrific combo of Joy Division’s “Transmission” and Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. It’s so effective I could hardly take my eyes off the screen. It even makes me wonder if there’s possibly a Swan Lake Mashup World Tour in the stars?
One of the most powerful books I’ve read in recent years is Michael A. Singer’s extraordinary 2007 bestseller The Untethered Soul. Each chapter is a treasure, and the fact that I revisit these 200 pages so often, I would even go as far as calling the book a personal talisman. But of all the book’s most memorable moments of enlightenment, perhaps my favorite is Singer’s metaphor where he likens the human mind to a theatre with one performer on stage (i.e. your neverending chatterbox mind which is not the real you) and one person sitting in the audience (i.e. your true self,…
As millions gather in living rooms around the world to watch Super Bowl 50 later today, there’s one technology that continues to be a staple of each and every NFL broadcast — the yellow virtual first-down line. The technology was created by the same engineers who devised the glowing hockey puck technology that was once used in NHL games to help viewers keep track of the often difficult to find puck on the TV screen. When fans complained it was too gimmicky the embellishment was done away with.
Painted between 1490 and 1510, and measuring 7′-3″ tall x 12′-9″ wide, Hieronymus Bosch’s iconic painting, The Garden Of Earthly Delights, is one of the most studied works of art in history. When unfolded, the triptych displays the following scenes: 1) the left shows God presenting Eve to Adam; 2) the square center panel depicts a party atmosphere of naked folks with surreal animals, fruits, and stone formations; and 3) the right panel is a hellscape portraying the torments of damnation. Although the painting has been traditionally interpreted as a warning of the consequences of temptation, other historians have found…