elder care

Humanitas Retirement Village, a long-term care facility in the city Deventer in the Netherlands, offers free accommodation to students in exchange for thirty hours of help for elderly residents per month.

a loser?

hummingbirds

 

A free semi-retirement hobby conceived during a nap has turned into serious sales.  

150k waiting list

entrance requirement

"You must be uncomfortable in your own skin."
- August Strindberg on being an artist

on innovation

" ... they didn't use hair pomade."

found art

Robert Rauschenberg anticipated the modern art movement.

on risk

(Image of a sky aircraft carrier)

"The day you stop making mistakes is the day you're not on the frontier."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson

on going second

"Don't ever be the first person to try anything."
- David Bowie as recalled by Gwyneth Paltrow

eureka

"' I do not depend on figures at all. I try an experiment and reason out the result, somehow, by methods which I could not explain.' And so it was that by testing 1,600 different materials, from coconut fibre to fishing line and even hair from a colleague's beard, Edison finally found a particular type of bamboo which could be used, in carbonized form, as the filament in the first proper incandescent light bulb. He demonstrated it on New Year's Eve 1879 at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey."
- The Economist December 5th 2015

How to open a bottle of wine without a corkscrew

Disappearing car door