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"We have to get to know each other better, it makes us understand one another better, trust each other more and live together more peacefully."
Under this motto, the UNITED BUDDY BEARS promote tolerance and understanding between different nations cultures and religions on their global tour.
140 Buddy Bears designed by 140 artists represent as many countries recognized by the United Nations. The different styles from all over the world are joined in a unique work of art, spreading joie de vivre. The diverse designs of the bears always characteristic for the individual countries enable the visitors to experience a journey around the globe.
Further information at: www.buddy-baer.com
By Araan Schmidt , made from steel, cable, rubber tubing, and surplus canvas heating ducts from the Korean War.
The weirdly wonderful Franconia Sculpture Park in the St. Croix River Valley at Franconia, Minnesota (a little more than an hour's drive northeast out of the Twin Cities).
To the best of my understanding, it's an experimental area for artists to try out new, out of the box art and an opportunity to wander through (for free) to experience and give feedback.
Edwidge Danticat read from her work and then joined with Aja Monet in a conversation as part of the Lannan Foundation's Readings and Conversations series live at the Lensic Theater.
Wednesday 27 March 2019
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Learn more about this event here.
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Photo copyright Don Usner. For use, contact donusner@lannan.org.
MIT Media Lab "Understanding Networks" conference, Oct 12-13th, 2011.
Leica M9-P with 35mm Summilux Aspherical
26 November 2015, Rome - Signing ceremony of of a Memorandum of Understanding between FAO and The Netherlands on Water Remote Sensing signed by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and Gerda Verburg, Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to FAO. FAO headquarters (Australia Room).
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Alessia Pierdomenico. Editorial use only. Copyright ©FAO.
On May, 2023, Argonne opened its doors to thousands, showcasing its wide-ranging research to people of all ages with interactive games, hands-on science activities, and tours of one-of-a-kind research facilities.
This photo was taken during a tour of the Planes, Trains, and Automobiles demostration.
The Open House offered visitors nearly 100 inspiring activities and tours spanning four science themes: Creating the Tools of Science, Improving Public and Personal Health, Saving the Planet, and Understanding the Universe.
To find out more, visit this article - Thousands celebrate Argonne’s transformational science at Open House »
Also, visit our Open House hub page - Open House highlights »
Chronic fatigue is a condition that many people suffer from on a regular basis. Chronic fatigue must take place six months or longer and leave an individual feeling constantly tired and drained all the time.
Yes I came back thanks to the most understanding woman in the world (that would be you Sweetheart). Having missed the icebergs in June Cathy found out that there were hundreds of them around St Anthony and told me to book a flight.
Now this may not be the best image from my ongoing trip but it means a lot to me. A self portrait sitting on the bluffs overlooking Great Brehat, the ocean and the icebergs.
Adding to all the visual sensory overload add in the gulls crying and wheeling above, the sun shining warmly the wind in my ears and the smell of fresh crushed bayberry.
If you go there please look for my heart, it is there somewhere *sigh*
Chosen, by me, as my "Photo of the Weekend" and Blogged
watching this pair was a fabulous sight, so much trust shared by both of them, a very tender moment.
Terminology for the essay to be written in class Thursday:
demograhic info
bureaucracy
evaluate
Dinka
Nilotic
United Nations
refugee / asylum
Peter Dut
Santino Chuor
South Sudan
INS: Immigration and Naturalization Service
ululation
fu fu
Eastern Africa
Swahili
English / British colony
Arabic / Muslims
mnemonic
Nairobi, Kenya
documentation
indigenous
Houston: 4.5 M
Kansas City: 2 M
Why do weeds keep growing again and again despite frequent weeding? This question is relevant to gardeners, but also to researchers in ecology. Indeed, weeds are an often-neglected source of biodiversity. In a joint project with the French National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), we develop models to uncover how weeds can survive at the city scale despite the action of gardeners. To do so, we investigate plant dynamics in urban tree bases along streets. These tree bases can act as “highways” (or ecological corridors) for plant species, connecting parks and gardens. We aim to understand which plant species are effectively able to spread through urban tree bases. Our results will have consequences for the management of tree bases by gardeners: they will highlight new weeding strategies which are more efficient against undesirable species while promoting biodiversity.
Dr Apolline Louvet
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Category: Partnerships
Research that is working in collaboration with people outside academia including industry, policymakers and civil society and community-based organisations.
On May, 2023, Argonne opened its doors to thousands, showcasing its wide-ranging research to people of all ages with interactive games, hands-on science activities, and tours of one-of-a-kind research facilities.
This photo was taken during a tour of the Learning Center inside the Educational Programs Department at Argonne.
The Open House offered visitors nearly 100 inspiring activities and tours spanning four science themes: Creating the Tools of Science, Improving Public and Personal Health, Saving the Planet, and Understanding the Universe.
To find out more, visit this article - Thousands celebrate Argonne’s transformational science at Open House »
Also, visit our Open House hub page - Open House highlights »
City of North Vancouver Mayor Linda Buchanan and President Paul Dangerfield sign a Memorandum of Understanding on Tuesday, April 30, 2019, for the CityStudio North Vancouver Pilot Project. The project is a collaboration connecting City of North Vancouver staff with Capilano University faculty and students to explore potential solutions to City of North Vancouver issues and opportunities for innovation.
Living in Transit: The Thinkers of a World in Turmoil
War looms over Europe, uncertainty seeps into everyday life, and the weight of history presses upon the present. The world is burning, and yet—there are those who seek understanding, those who bury themselves in the quiet refuge of books, the dim glow of libraries, the solitude of knowledge.
This series captures the introspective minds of young academic women—readers, thinkers, seekers. They wander through old university halls, their fingers tracing the spines of forgotten books, pulling out volumes of poetry, philosophy, and psychology. They drink coffee, they drink tea, they stay up late with ink-stained fingers, trying to decipher the world through words.
They turn to Simone Weil for moral clarity, Hannah Arendt for political insight, Rilke for existential wisdom. They read Baudrillard to untangle the illusions of modernity, Byung-Chul Han to understand society’s exhaustion, Camus to grasp the absurdity of it all. They devour Celan’s poetry, searching for beauty in catastrophe.
But they do not just read—they reflect, they question, they write. Their world is one of quiet resistance, an intellectual sanctuary amidst the chaos. In their solitude, they are not alone. Across time, across history, across the pages they turn, they are in conversation with those who, too, have sought meaning in troubled times.
This is a series about thought in transit—about seeking, reading, questioning, about the relentless pursuit of knowledge when the world feels on the brink.
Where the Thinkers Go
They gather where the dust has settled,
where books whisper in the hush of halls.
Pages thin as breath, torn at the edges,
cradling centuries of questions.
They drink coffee like it’s ink,
trace words like constellations,
follow Rilke into the dusk,
where solitude hums softly in the dark.
Outside, the world is fraying—
war threading through the seams of cities,
the weight of history pressing forward.
Inside, they turn pages, searching
for answers, for solace, for fire.
And somewhere between the lines,
between time-stained margins and fading ink,
they find the ghosts of others who
once sought, once wondered, once read—
and they do not feel alone.
Three Haikus
Night falls on paper,
books stacked like silent towers,
thoughts burn in the dark.
Tea cools in the cup,
a poem lingers on lips,
war rumbles beyond.
Footsteps in silence,
the scent of old ink and dust,
pages turn like ghosts.
ooOOOoo
The Intellectual Pursuit: What They Read in 2025
In a world teetering between war and uncertainty, young academic women turn to books—not as mere escape, but as a way to confront reality, to seek wisdom in the echoes of history, and to understand the weight of the present. They read in dimly lit libraries, at café tables littered with half-drunk cups of tea, in quiet university archives where dust clings to forgotten volumes. They are drawn to words that unravel complexity, books that demand contemplation, and authors who have wrestled with the same existential questions that haunt their minds today.
Here is what they read.
1. Existential and Philosophical Works
In times of crisis, philosophy becomes a mirror—reflecting both the weight of the world and the possibilities of thought. These books challenge, unsettle, and offer a way to navigate uncertainty.
Simone Weil – Gravity and Grace (moral clarity and reflections on human suffering)
Hannah Arendt – The Origins of Totalitarianism (a timeless study of power, ideology, and authoritarianism)
Byung-Chul Han – The Burnout Society (a philosophical take on modern exhaustion and performance-driven culture)
Jean Baudrillard – Simulacra and Simulation (a critique of reality and illusion in an age of digital manipulation)
Albert Camus – The Plague (a novel that mirrors today’s existential and ethical dilemmas)
Søren Kierkegaard – The Concept of Anxiety (an exploration of freedom, dread, and the human condition)
These thinkers guide them through uncertainty, offering both discomfort and clarity—challenging them to see beyond the immediate chaos.
2. Poetry and Literature of Longing, Loss, and Human Experience
Sometimes, only poetry and fiction can capture what analysis cannot—the deep, wordless truths of grief, love, exile, and the quiet resilience of the human spirit.
Anne Carson – Nox (a fragmented, deeply personal meditation on loss and memory)
Paul Celan – Todesfuge (haunting post-Holocaust poetry that lingers between beauty and horror)
Rainer Maria Rilke – Letters to a Young Poet (a lyrical guide to solitude, art, and self-discovery)
Ocean Vuong – On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (poetry-infused storytelling on identity and survival)
Virginia Woolf – The Waves (a novel that reads like a long poem, exploring time, consciousness, and human connection)
Clarice Lispector – The Hour of the Star (a sparse, existential novel that lingers long after the last page)
These books are read slowly, lines underlined in pencil, phrases whispered to oneself in quiet moments.
3. Political Thought and Social Critique
Understanding the present requires looking at the past and tracing the patterns of history, power, and resistance.
Naomi Klein – Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World (on misinformation, conspiracy culture, and the fracturing of reality)
Timothy Snyder – On Tyranny (20 lessons from history on how democracy is lost—and how it can be protected)
Achille Mbembe – Necropolitics (on the politics of death, control, and who gets to exist in modern power structures)
Olga Tokarczuk – Flights (a novel that blurs fiction and philosophy, exploring movement, exile, and identity)
Rebecca Solnit – Hope in the Dark (on why history is shaped by those who refuse to give up)
These books are read with urgency—annotated, discussed, debated. They provide frameworks for understanding the unfolding crises of today.
4. Science, Psychology, and the Search for Meaning
In times of uncertainty, some turn to the mind and the universe—to trauma studies, quantum physics, and new ways of seeing.
Carlo Rovelli – The Order of Time (a poetic examination of time and its illusions)
James Bridle – New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future (on the unpredictability of AI, climate change, and human systems)
Bessel van der Kolk – The Body Keeps the Score (on trauma, memory, and how the body stores experiences)
Donna Haraway – Staying with the Trouble (rethinking human and non-human relationships in a time of ecological crisis)
These books stretch their understanding beyond politics and poetry—into the unseen forces that shape the self and the cosmos.
From left, Professors John Boschen, John Merrick, Dick Ash, Deborah Hewitt and Larry Ring. Photo by Buddy Norris
136th Airlift Wing Airmen and their families took part in KUDOS, Kids Understanding Deployment Operations, a mock deployment event that helps children understand deployments and the 136AW mission, Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Texas, Sept. 10, 2016. The event was sponsored by the Carswell Family Guardians.
TEDxStuttgart 2017 "New Understanding" am 23. September 2017 in der Phoenixhalle im Römerkastell.
Foto: Martin Naujocks
Are you a sound sleeper?
Subject: Fw: Fwd: Can You Sleep While The Wind blows?
This brings to mind Philippians 4:6, 7 and John 14:27. His peace is passes understanding.
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Years ago, a farmer owned land along the Atlantic seacoast.
He constantly advertised for hired hands. Most people were
reluctant to work on farms along the Atlantic . They dreaded the
awful storms that raged across the Atlantic , wreaking havoc on the buildings and crops..
As the farmer interviewed applicants for the job, he received
A steady stream of refusals.
Finally, a short, thin man, well past middle age, approached
the farmer. "Are you a good farm hand?" the farmer asked him.
"Well, I can sleep when the wind blows," answered the little man.
Although puzzled by this answer, the farmer, desperate for help,
Hired him. The little man worked well around the farm, busy from
dawn to dusk, and the farmer felt satisfied with the man's work.
Then one night the wind howled loudly in from offshore.
Jumping out of bed, the farmer grabbed a lantern and rushed
next door to the hired hand's sleeping quarters. He shook the
little man and yelled, "Get up! A storm is coming!
Tie things down before they blow away!"
The little man rolled over in bed and said firmly, "No
sir. I told you, I can sleep when the wind blows."
Enraged by the response, the farmer was tempted to fire him on
the spot. Instead, he hurried outside to prepare for the storm.
To his amazement, he discovered that all of the haystacks had
been covered with tarpaulins.. The cows were in the barn, the chickens were in the coops, and the doors were barred.
The shutters were tightly secured. Everything was tied down.
Nothing could blow away. The farmer then understood what his
hired hand meant, so he returned to his bed to also sleep while
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When you're prepared, spiritually, mentally, and physically,
you have nothing to fear. Can you sleep when the
wind blows through your life?
The hired hand in the story was able to sleep because he
had secured the farm against the storm .
We secure ourselves against the storms of life by
grounding ourselves in the Word of God..
We don't need to understand, we just need to hold
His hand to have peace in the middle of storms.
A friend of mine sent this to me today,
and I enjoyed it so much, that I wanted to send it to you.
I hope you enjoy your day and you sleep well.
GOD BLESS US ALL! Ü
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on 18 Spetember 2018, to continue support of the 'Edified Generation' scholarships' programme.
The Chinese Embassy greatly supports the development of education in Rwanda and strives to do this through helping disadvantaged students under Imbuto Foundation’s scholarship programme – Edified Generation.
Imbuto Foundation and the Chinese Embassy have signed MoUs in support of the scholarship programme since 2013.
Better data is becoming available on economic activity within countries, often much exceeding the available information of economic activity across countries. This creates new research opportunities for testing economic theory, analyzing market structures and the sources of market segmentation, and making predictions of how economic shocks propagate across space. The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers from urban economics, industrial organization, health economics, and international trade to study production and trade within and across countries.
Marco Sosa. 2nd floor view. Marco's design proposal included a diachronic path that used the fibonacci series [in recognition of the golden section] to create a series of labyrinths that had to be deciphered to discover the next space. The alternative synchronic path happened under the previos path, discovering the solution to the puzzle.
On May, 2023, Argonne opened its doors to thousands, showcasing its wide-ranging research to people of all ages with interactive games, hands-on science activities, and tours of one-of-a-kind research facilities.
This photo was taken during a tour of the Materials Engineering Research Facility at Argonne.
The Open House offered visitors nearly 100 inspiring activities and tours spanning four science themes: Creating the Tools of Science, Improving Public and Personal Health, Saving the Planet, and Understanding the Universe.
To find out more, visit this article - Thousands celebrate Argonne’s transformational science at Open House »
Also, visit our Open House hub page - Open House highlights »
Was ist künstliche Intelligenz? Und was wissen wir eigentlich über die menschliche Intelligenz? Wie intelligent kann künstliche Intelligenz im Vergleich dazu sein? Wichtiger noch: Welche Auswirkungen werden die Fortschritte in diesem Bereich auf unsere Gesellschaft haben? Antorten auf diese und viele weitere Fragen gibt die Ausstllung Understanding AI im Ars Electronica Center.
Foto: Ars Electronica / Birgit Cakir
Valley High School Principal Gary Hurt welcomes the audience to Parents Understanding Pills (PUPIL) on April 16.
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love. (Claude Monet)
The inaugural Adnams Supplier Conference. Thursday 23rd June 2016 at The Enterprise Center at the UEA, Norwich.