BEAUTIFUL MINDS | 5election - The International Coolhunting Magazine
JOSÉ MUJICA ( EX-PRESIDENT OF URUGUAY ) EXPLAINS THE PROBLEM WITH THE WORLD IN JUST 45 SECONDS
José Mujica, nicknamed Pepe Mujica, was President of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015. A former Tupamaros freedom fighter in the 60s and the 70s, he was detained, like a hostage by the dictatorship between 1973 and 1985. He advocates a… THE RODIN COIL: Is It The Greatest Discovery Of All Time ?
Free energy is easily one of the hottest topics in the world within alternative news. While mainstream news continues to ignore the growing interest around the subject, alternative news outlets are providing new information about the inventions, science, mathematics and… IMAM MUSTAFA EFE: Opens Mosque’s Doors To Stray Cats To Keep Them Warm
In Istanbul, there’s a mosque where you can pray alongside cats. We’re not kitten you! The Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi Mosque’s imam Mustafa Efe has been letting stray cats in since last year. He wants to keep them warm during the… STANISLAV PETROF: The Man Who Saved The World
History remembers the winners and losers of war but rarely recognises the people who prevent it. Few people have heard of Stanislav Petrov, but we may all owe him our very existence. As a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air… THE NEXT NOBEL PRIZE FOR PEACE, TO ICELANDER CITIZENS
The reason? Simply: When Iceland capped its Syrian refugees at 50, 10,000 icelanders responded by offering up their homes. In the midst of the Syrian crisis, Iceland recently announced it was willing to help with the growing humanitarian disaster by… WHAT IS MATH FOR ?
Mathematician Eduardo Sáenz De Cabezón answers a question that’s wracked the brains of bored students the world over. He shows the beauty of math as the backbone of science — and shows that theorems, not diamonds, are forever. In Spanish,… XIE XU: The Student Who Carries His Disabled Classmate To School Every Day For 3 Years
Every day for the last 3 years, Xie Xu, 18, has been carrying his disabled classmate to school on his back. His friend suffers from muscular dystrophy, a disease that results in progressive skeletal muscle weakness and potentially a shortened… THE TEN SMARTEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
The infographic below lists the 10 smartest people in the world - at least, according to education site SuperScholar.org. Their list was based on a mix of people's IQs and achievements, and while most of the entries are pretty expected,… BRAIGO: The Braille Printer Using Lego Mindstorms EV3 Developed By Student Shubham Banerjee
Developed by Shubham Banerjee, a 7th grade student from Santa Clara, California. BRAIGO is a Braille Printer using Lego Mindstorms EV3. This concept slashes the price of a printer from more than $2000 to around $350 for education, teaching and… EINSTEIN’S CREDO: Here’s What Einstein Believed In
Did you know that Einstein fancied himself something of a loner, and didn't believe in free will? Read Einstein's Credo, written during his last years in Berlin. In August 1932, Albert Einstein wrote “My Credo” in Caputh, Germany, outlining his… DALAI LAMA: “I Am Marxist “
At a lecture in Kolkata, India’s Presidency University earlier this week, the Dalai Lama spoke about the growing divide between rich and poor. “We must have a human approach. As far as socioeconomic theory, I am Marxist,” he said in… JANOS VON NEUMANN: The Hungarian-American Mathematician Smarter Than Einstein
Some would claim the smartest person of the 20th century worked down the hall from Albert Einstein at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study. John( Janos) von Neumann, born in Budapest in 1903 and immigrated to the United States in 1930,… MARK BUSTOS: The New York Good Guy Who Spent A Year Giving The Homeless Haircuts
Mark Bustos, a resident stylist at Three Square Studio in West Chelsea, has gotten a ton of attention recently for his yearlong project cutting hair for the homeless on the streets of NYC. A pro stylist who counts famous faces… LILLIAN WEBER: The 99-Year-Old Lady That Sews A Dress A Day For Children In Need
Lillian Weber, a 99-year-old good Samaritan from Iowa, has spent the last few years sewing a dress a day for the Little Dresses For Africa charity, a Christian organization that distributes dresses to children in need in Africa and elsewhere.… JEAN-PAUL SARTRE: The First Person To Decline The Nobel Prize
“A writer who adopts political, social, or literary positions must act only with the means that are his own — that is, the written word.” Despite its surprisingly dark origin, the Nobel Prize is regarded as the highest honor bestowed… KIM PEEK: The Man That Remembers Everything
By the time Kim Peek passed away in 2009, he had perfectly memorized 12,000 books, simultaneously making him both the best and the worst person to be stuck next to on a bus. "Anyone up for a stirring monotone recitation… THE MAN WHO INVENTED CYBERSPACE IN 1934
Some of us may be starting to feel that way about the Internet. As a handful of corporations continue to consolidate their grip over the network, the optimism of the early indie Web has given way to a much-chronicled backlash.… WHEN I STARTED LOVING MYSELF: A Poem By Charlie Chaplin Written On His 70th Birthday On April 16-1959
When I started loving myself I understood that I’m always and at any given opportunity in the right place at the right time. And I understood that all that happens is right – from then on I could be… JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI (1895-1986): One Of The Greatest Mind Ever
Was a renowned writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects. His subject matter included: psychological revolution, the nature of the mind, meditation, human relationships, and bringing about positive change in society. He constantly stressed the need for a revolution… MASSIMO VIGNELLI: “If You Can Design One Think, You Can Design Everything”
Vignelli and his wife Leila founded Vignelli Associates in 1971, and they worked on corporate identity, package design and furniture. But his enduring legacy is with the MTA and his re-imagined subway map. The NY Times reflected on the 40th…
BEAUTIFUL MINDS | 5election - The International Coolhunting Magazine
JOSÉ MUJICA ( EX-PRESIDENT OF URUGUAY ) EXPLAINS THE PROBLEM WITH THE WORLD IN JUST 45 SECONDS
José Mujica, nicknamed Pepe Mujica, was President of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015. A former Tupamaros freedom fighter in the 60s and the 70s, he was detained, like a hostage by the dictatorship between 1973 and 1985. He advocates a… THE RODIN COIL: Is It The Greatest Discovery Of All Time ?
Free energy is easily one of the hottest topics in the world within alternative news. While mainstream news continues to ignore the growing interest around the subject, alternative news outlets are providing new information about the inventions, science, mathematics and… IMAM MUSTAFA EFE: Opens Mosque’s Doors To Stray Cats To Keep Them Warm
In Istanbul, there’s a mosque where you can pray alongside cats. We’re not kitten you! The Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi Mosque’s imam Mustafa Efe has been letting stray cats in since last year. He wants to keep them warm during the… STANISLAV PETROF: The Man Who Saved The World
History remembers the winners and losers of war but rarely recognises the people who prevent it. Few people have heard of Stanislav Petrov, but we may all owe him our very existence. As a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air… THE NEXT NOBEL PRIZE FOR PEACE, TO ICELANDER CITIZENS
The reason? Simply: When Iceland capped its Syrian refugees at 50, 10,000 icelanders responded by offering up their homes. In the midst of the Syrian crisis, Iceland recently announced it was willing to help with the growing humanitarian disaster by… WHAT IS MATH FOR ?
Mathematician Eduardo Sáenz De Cabezón answers a question that’s wracked the brains of bored students the world over. He shows the beauty of math as the backbone of science — and shows that theorems, not diamonds, are forever. In Spanish,… XIE XU: The Student Who Carries His Disabled Classmate To School Every Day For 3 Years
Every day for the last 3 years, Xie Xu, 18, has been carrying his disabled classmate to school on his back. His friend suffers from muscular dystrophy, a disease that results in progressive skeletal muscle weakness and potentially a shortened… THE TEN SMARTEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
The infographic below lists the 10 smartest people in the world - at least, according to education site SuperScholar.org. Their list was based on a mix of people's IQs and achievements, and while most of the entries are pretty expected,… BRAIGO: The Braille Printer Using Lego Mindstorms EV3 Developed By Student Shubham Banerjee
Developed by Shubham Banerjee, a 7th grade student from Santa Clara, California. BRAIGO is a Braille Printer using Lego Mindstorms EV3. This concept slashes the price of a printer from more than $2000 to around $350 for education, teaching and… EINSTEIN’S CREDO: Here’s What Einstein Believed In
Did you know that Einstein fancied himself something of a loner, and didn't believe in free will? Read Einstein's Credo, written during his last years in Berlin. In August 1932, Albert Einstein wrote “My
 Credo” in Caputh, Germany, outlining his… DALAI LAMA: “I Am Marxist “
At a lecture in Kolkata, India’s Presidency University earlier this week, the Dalai Lama spoke about the growing divide between rich and poor. “We must have a human approach. As far as socioeconomic theory, I am Marxist,” he said in… JANOS VON NEUMANN: The Hungarian-American Mathematician Smarter Than Einstein
Some would claim the smartest person of the 20th century worked down the hall from Albert Einstein at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study. John( Janos) von Neumann, born in Budapest in 1903 and immigrated to the United States in 1930,… MARK BUSTOS: The New York Good Guy Who Spent A Year Giving The Homeless Haircuts
Mark Bustos, a resident stylist at Three Square Studio in West Chelsea, has gotten a ton of attention recently for his yearlong project cutting hair for the homeless on the streets of NYC. A pro stylist who counts famous faces… LILLIAN WEBER: The 99-Year-Old Lady That Sews A Dress A Day For Children In Need
Lillian Weber, a 99-year-old good Samaritan from Iowa, has spent the last few years sewing a dress a day for the Little Dresses For Africa charity, a Christian organization that distributes dresses to children in need in Africa and elsewhere.… JEAN-PAUL SARTRE: The First Person To Decline The Nobel Prize
“A writer who adopts political, social, or literary positions must act only with the means that are his own — that is, the written word.” Despite its surprisingly dark origin, the Nobel Prize is regarded as the highest honor bestowed… KIM PEEK: The Man That Remembers Everything
By the time Kim Peek passed away in 2009, he had perfectly memorized 12,000 books, simultaneously making him both the best and the worst person to be stuck next to on a bus. "Anyone up for a stirring monotone recitation… THE MAN WHO INVENTED CYBERSPACE IN 1934
Some of us may be starting to feel that way about the Internet. As a handful of corporations continue to consolidate their grip over the network, the optimism of the early indie Web has given way to a much-chronicled backlash.… WHEN I STARTED LOVING MYSELF: A Poem By Charlie Chaplin Written On His 70th Birthday On April 16-1959
When I started loving myself I understood that I’m always and at any given opportunity in the right place at the right time. And I understood that all that happens is right – from then on I could be… JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI (1895-1986): One Of The Greatest Mind Ever
Was a renowned writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects. His subject matter included: psychological revolution, the nature of the mind, meditation, human relationships, and bringing about positive change in society. He constantly stressed the need for a revolution… MASSIMO VIGNELLI: “If You Can Design One Think, You Can Design Everything”
Vignelli and his wife Leila founded Vignelli Associates in 1971, and they worked on corporate identity, package design and furniture. But his enduring legacy is with the MTA and his re-imagined subway map. The NY Times reflected on the 40th…