Friday, February 01, 2013

Friday Burn

::: The 2013 Gates Letter - this week's must read
Combining global poverty, the MDGs, education, engineering, technology, medicine, public health and policy and a myriad of other disciplines. Whatever tangible skill you want to study, missions has a place for it.
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::: The Ambivert
Ambiverts, a term coined by social scientists in the 1920s, are people who are neither extremely introverted nor extremely extroverted.
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::: For 40 years, this Russian family was cut off from all human contact
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::: Predicting the Future, and the odds of it
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::: @lensweet - In the subtitles of a Chinese Star Wars dvd, "Jedi Council" was translated as "Presbyterian Church" (from "Found in Translation")

::: @ajsherrill - We once inhabited a society of believers tempted by doubt. Now we inhabit a society of doubters tempted by belief. #EvangelismRevisited

2 comments:

  1. Hmm...I wonder if I'm an Ambivert!

    I always am very close to the middle on Myers-Briggs.

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  2. i think you might be right :-)

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