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Vote! **First Descents** They're on an incredible and worthy journey..

The North Face
www.thenorthface.com

Here's to another year of bad-ass women skiers!

Find Your Inner Diva 90 local women are taking to the mountain and finding their inner DIVAS. This specialty adult clinic combines great instruction with motivation & big fun.

A sensory approach to our world around us...
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/110/mapping

Mapping | This American Life Five ways of mapping the world. One story about people who make maps the traditional way — by drawing things we can see. And other stories about people who map the world using smell, sound, touch, and taste. The world redrawn by the five senses.

Unlock your creative potential

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_kelley_how_to_build_your_creative_confidence.html

David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence | Video on TED.com TED Talks Is your school or workplace divided into "creatives" versus practical people? Yet surely, David Kelley suggests, creativity is not the domain of only a chosen few. Telling stories from his legendary design career and his own life, he offers ways to build the confidence to create... (Fr…

Creating Shareholder Value | The Big Picture Source: New Yorker

A great resource for policymakers, researchers, development practitioners, funding organizations, and switched on individuals.
http://capacity.org/capacity/opencms/en/index.html

Home | Capacity.org Welcome to Capacity.org, a resource portal for the practice of capacity development and the home of Capacity.org journal, published two to three times a year. Building on the topics covered in the journal, this website aims to facilitate access to a broad range of related online resources that pract...

For the adrenaline junkies out there... What happens to our brains during a cliff jump? How do wingsuits work? And does time really slow down when we're scared?

http://sciencefriday.com/video/10/26/2012/plunge-into-the-science-of-base-jumping.html

Plunge Into the Science of BASE Jumping BASE stands for the objects the practitioners of the sport jump from: buildings, antennas, spans, earth. We look into the physics and neuroscience of the sport.

Check out these amazing photographs of BUGS(!) in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. Can you figure out who is the observer and who is the observed?

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/02/magazine/mozambique-bugs.html?hp

Judgmental Insects in Mozambique Judgmental insects in Mozambique.

Where does the US stand globally?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_reckoning/2012/11/01/should_the_us_be_ranked_number_2_in_the_world_on_health.html

Should the US Be Ranked Number 2 in the World on Health? As anyone who has every tried to create a foolproof system for anything will tell you, the perfect machine – the flawless economic model – simply does not exist. Ask the boys at Long Term Capital Management, the hedge fund of the 1990s led by two Nobel winning economists that...

How will the upcoming election impact America's energy future? Find out here...

http://burnanenergyjournal.com/burn-radio-special-the-power-of-one/

BURN Radio Special: The Power of One BURN Radio Special: The Power of One | The Public Radio Energy Project

Catch a meteor shower this weekend!

http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/when-is-the-next-meteor-shower-2012

Annual Orionid meteor shower will peak this weekend | Astronomy Essentials | EarthSky The 2012 Draconid meteor shower, earlier in October, held some surprises. What will happen at this year's Orionid shower, which peaks on the morning of October 21?

Are we destroying one of the country's greatest food resources? How do we build a sustainable system of farming?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/magazine/californias-central-valley-land-of-a-billion-vegetables.html?hpw

California’s Central Valley, Land of a Billion Vegetables California’s Central Valley is our greatest food resource. So why are we treating it so badly?