Abandoned school turned maker space. Theaster Gates turns Chicago’s abandoned buildings into thriving hubs for art and education. His next project? Turning an old elementary school into a maker space. Gates heads Place Lab, a think tank that fuses the brainpower of urban planners, architects, artists and other diverse professionals to create “culture-led neighborhood transformation”.…

via A new take on an old school, the diet myth, and protecting North Korean women — TED Blog

The Ideal Vacation My chronic illnesses have not only changed the way I live, they have also changed the way I vacation. Prior to becoming chronically ill I would plan for a relaxing trip to break away from my every day hurried life. Even if I planned for a few adventures, I never had to […]

via The Ideal Vacation — The Disabled Diva’s Blog

Ondine32When you wake up in the morning and you feel like you’ve lost control over your life. When you feel like you have no clue what you’ve been doing for the last twenty-something or thirty-something years of your life. When you question everything you’ve done and if you’ve made all the wrong turns. When you…

via Read This When You Don’t Feel Like You’re Good Enough — Thought Catalog

All the details are over on Tor.com, right now. “But Scaaaaaaalzzzi, clicking through is sooooooooo much woooooooooork!” Oh, fine. Here. Cover artist? Sparth, aka Nicolas Bouvier, whose work will familiar to you if you, you know, play video games at all. But seriously, go over to that Tor.com link for more details.

via Cover for The Collapsing Empire, My New Book, Out on March 21, 2017 — Whatever

A century before the birth of Twitter, Albert Einstein issued the best advice to date on how to engage with trash-talkers: just don’t. We know the father of relativity’s thoughts on haters thanks to his correspondence with the physicist and chemist Marie Curie, an exchange recently highlighted by Maria Popova at BrainPickings. Four years after…

via “Simply don’t read that hogwash”: Einstein had some genius advice for dealing with haters — Quartz

April Uncertainty April 1 I was cleaning off my desk. I wanted everything to be ready, just in case. There was a pile of self help books. All designed to help you figure out what you really want to do. I keep starting them, then tossing them aside. I’m not sure I ever really performed […]

via Installment 1: Meet Me By the Gate — Deidra Alexander’s Blog

chanelpluscat1. Being intimidated by something new is always better than being bored. 2. Failure will always be more admirable than sitting unscathed on the sidelines. 3. I would rather be someone who does something than someone who just tells others what they’re doing wrong. 4. If the thing I am currently chasing after was easy to…

via 26 One-Sentence Pep Talks To Give Yourself When You’re Stressed, Unhappy, Or Simply Lost — Thought Catalog