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"Nets of people are now translating schoolbooks into foreign languages for underserved communities, building online collaborative encyclopedias, and creating democratic news services. Whatever the goal, though, all open-source projects share these defining characteristics: they break huge goals into small problems, encourage innovative answers, recognize quality contributions, and allow anyone to look for (and fix) problems. As Wired magazine editor Thomas Goetz writes, "Open-source projects succeed when a broad group of contributors recognize the same need and agree on how to meet it." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "For many years, it was politically dangerous for Albanians to learn foreign languages." Global Music Online Literary Journals and Anthologies Arts & Letters Daily is a witty and concise guide to the best essays available online by leading thinkers, critics, and philosophers of the (largely) Western world. Editors Dennis Dutton and Tran Huu Dung post two or three short blurbs daily, in addition to maintaining a directory of notable periodicals and columnists." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"On the right-hand side of the ground floor was the section dedicated to translations of Russian science books into foreign languages. Perhaps the best aspect of the Soviet command economy was its colossal misallocation of resources in the field of education. In practice, this meant translating hundreds of science textbooks into dozens of strange languages and selling them absurdly cheaply. The downside of the command economy was that a given book would appear without warning one morning in a vast pile, and be gone by evening." - Luca Turin, The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Get the book.)

"He also watched Agent Orange being used to clear land for teak tree planting in Costa Rica, regardless of its devastating effects on the workers and their children; 90% of Cambodia's farmers are being poisoned because health warnings on pesticide containers are printed only in foreign languages. But he noted that the trade ministers are beginning to listen to international labour groups, and that consumers are responding intelligently." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.)

"So distinct are these personalities that MPD victims will have not only different handwriting styles, artistic talents, and knowledge of foreign languages, but even different allergies, illnesses, and reactions to drugs, depending upon which personality they are "using" at the moment. Scientists have confirmed that an MPD victim can exhibit different brain-wave patterns from one subpersonal-ity to another—a feat almost as difficult as changing one's fingerprints.6 Talking Ghosts One of the most striking dissociative phenomena I have run across came from an experiment conducted by Dr." - Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe, The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence (Get the book.) "The Soviet-Bloc press was soon boasting that Suggestopedic learners could routinely master foreign languages in a single month.23-24 Many U.S. researchers dismissed these claims as Communist propaganda. However, researchers at Iowa State University soon succeeded in increasing memory retention in test subjects by 26 percent and speed of learning by 24 percent using 60-beat-per-minute Baroque music.25 Popularized in the United States by the 1979 bestseller Superlearning, by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, Suggestopedic courses are offered today by licensees throughout the United States." - Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe, The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence (Get the book.) "THE MEMORY EDGE The clearest mark of genius, in the popular mind, is the mastery of left-brain skills such as advanced mathematics, fluency in foreign languages, and the wielding of an impressive vocabulary Yet these achievements are based on little more than rote memorization. PhotoReading can accelerate your progress in every one of these areas. Try PhotoReading a dictionary several times, whether in English or some foreign tongue. This exercise will greatly enhance your vocabulary. In tandem with formal study, PhotoReading will accelerate your progress in almost any area many times over." - Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe, The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence (Get the book.)

"So he learned two foreign languages and traveled to several countries on his own. When people asked him why he went, he replied that he wanted "to see the world for himself." When I meet incredible human beings, like Alexander, or read about people who dare to "see for themselves," I begin to want to explore life around me more completely and to know how far my limits can stretch. As we live our lives, trying new things and searching for true answers, we gain plenty of our own experiences. Our knowledge becomes familiar and practical." - Victoria Boutenko, M.A., Green For Life (Get the book.)

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