Category: The Originals

Must-See Film: Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece “RAN”

Remember reading Shakespeare’s King Lear in high school? I did and thought it was a pretty memorable cautionary tale of how power can corrupt and result in epic tragedy.  But, […]

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Born To Rage: Guitar God Tom Morello & His Social Activism

Born To Rage: Guitar God Tom Morello & His Social Activism

Happy Birthday [May 30, 1964] to Tom Morello, Grammy-winning, [and totally awesome] guitarist of polemic hard rock band Rage Against The Machine and tireless social activist. Tom Morello, ranked #26 […]

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Meatless Monday: Vegan Black Metal Chef-Buffalo Seitan Bites

Meatless Monday: Vegan Black Metal Chef-Buffalo Seitan Bites

We adore the awesomely hard core recipes of the Vegan Black Metal Chef – his thrash guitar, gauntlets, chalice, sacrificial saber and his cruelty-free recipes. [His pad thai is, um, […]

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This Is Gonna Hurt ~ A Different Is Cool “InnerView” with Nikki Sixx

This Is Gonna Hurt ~ A Different Is Cool “InnerView” with Nikki Sixx

[Photo courtesy of Nikki Sixx] A bit about Different Is Cool InnerViews: At Different Is Cool, it is our dream to eradicate prejudice through the celebration & exultation of being different. […]

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People Who Inspire: Stephen Hawking

People Who Inspire: Stephen Hawking

You often hear people who are visually or hearing-impaired, or who live with a debilitating physical condition like MS or some other challenge, say that they wish others could see […]

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Is High Functioning Autism and Asperger Syndrome Associated with High Functioning Brilliance?

Is High Functioning Autism and Asperger Syndrome Associated with High Functioning Brilliance?

Many people known to be diagnosed in the spectrum of autism are brilliant scientists, anthropologists, physicists, mathematicians, and economists. Albert Einstein and Newton were both considered to be “consistent” in […]

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Sunflower Seeds & Censorship – Chinese Artist & Activist Ai WeiWei

Sunflower Seeds & Censorship – Chinese Artist & Activist Ai WeiWei

Chinese multi media artist and social activist Ai Weiwei created one of the most important and beautiful pieces of cultural art to date. His moving exhibition “Sunflower Seeds” [photo above-Tate […]

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Now that’s different! A single apartment with 24 different rooms

Now that’s different! A single apartment with 24 different rooms

Here’s something that should inspire and amaze you. This Hong Kong architect has done things with a tiny apartment that most of us couldn’t even imagine. It just shows what […]

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People Who Inspire: Helen Keller

People Who Inspire: Helen Keller

Helen Keller   The trouble with people who overcome enormous obstacles in their lives and change the world in doing so is that we tend to think of them as […]

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People Who Inspire: Sir Richard Branson, “a bit of a maverick”

People Who Inspire: Sir Richard Branson, “a bit of a maverick”

For a person who, by his own admission, still could not read at the age of eight, had a “nightmarish” time at school, and left it at the age of […]

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