Though many of the crunchy, oily, nutritious botanical bits & bites are not "true nuts" in the scientific sense. This selection of 10 unusual nuts highlights the often sweet yet occasionally distasteful relationship humans have had with these swell shelled feed seeds. #food

Born to Learn is an animation in a fascinating series aimed to provide easy-access to the exciting new discoveries constantly being made about how humans learn #borntolearn

The culture of consumption makes it easy to buy now and pay later. I've often bought belongings in the moment because "I had to have it." That type of process doesn't offer a whole lot of time for reflection or planning. #consumption

Pinterest allows you to organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. You can browse pinboards created by other people to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests. #pinterest

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have found an apparent correlation between religious practices and changes in the brains of older adults. They measured changes in the volume of the hippocampus, an area of the brain involved in learning and memory. #brain

To be happier, you have to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth. #happiness project

A battery demonstration shows that they can run on shredded paper and produce no harmless byproduct. #eco

A new piece of electronics called the audeo, can shift someone's sent neckband current into sound. #wearable

iPads are turning up at the job- they can handle light loads, but what happened to the laptop? #App-essories

What's the reason people work at what they love, and what is the scope of what they do? Is it limited and does the process keep going? #industryknowledge

Science illiteracy across the US is at a dangerous high. With issues like global warming and frac mining, do we really need science in the classroom? #sciencematters?

Heuristic bias often mistakes those in lessons. Hudgens remarks that the hyper reality of immediate disappointment can be forgotten soon. #learningefforts

Roth, "Entrepreneurship really is about being comfortable with being uncomfortable." Somewhere, new hardware is being built, but will it be a hit? #sinkorswim

"There's not a better time than now," said Steve Stoute, the founder and chief executive of Translation Consultation and Brand Imaging. Stoute works closely with entertainers and athletes, including Jay-Z and LeBron James, to help Fortune 500 corporations extend the companies' marketing reach. He has written a book, "The Tanning of America: How Hip-Hop Created a Culture That Rewrote the Rules of the New Economy." He thinks that players --- like many star actors --- should have been negotiating for equity stakes a long time ago.#equitybaseddeal

'Ecological and carbon footprints are in widespread use, but the present study suggests that they may fail to promote or even reduce sustainable behaviour for some people,' Brook wrote. 'Understanding how to modify footprint feedback to more effectively motivate sustainable behaviour is urgently needed.' #earth

Im not saying caffeine screw up my life but it had some effect. I think the new energy drinks are good thing. Why? Because they raise awareness off people that caffeine isn't something that kids should drink. Im not saying caffeine is bad thing or that it should be banned, but giving it age limit is something that should be done. #coffee

Only 4 percent of college graduates major in English. Just 2 percent major in history. In fact, the proportion of undergraduate degrees awarded annually in the liberal arts and sciences has been declining for a hundred years, apart from a brief rise between 1955 and 1970, which was a period of rapidly increasing enrollments and national economic growth. #college

I'm talking about the increasing number of employment ads that make it clear that all applicants must currently have a job. If you are unemployed, don't even bother applying. People might have many different reactions to this, based on whether it is unfair to the applicant. #dumb

None of these things will hurt anyone (unless your parachute breaks) and yet they do a far better job of bringing a sense of achievement and completeness. #orphanage build

A lot of those early posts seem embarrassingly awkward, naive, and wrongheaded now, but there are recent posts that are awkward, naive, and wrongheaded, too. That's the territory, the necessary risk for any endeavor like this. #wayback machine

Is spending every possible minute on your work the best thing for your business? Is it the best thing for your life? If you work 80 hrs a week, you will surely make more money and be more successful. #life

The Web makes it very easy to find lots of information but much of the information may also be wrong. That is like a might is very much necessary that someone fact-checks the Internet. But who? Dan Whaley thinks it should be you. Whaley, who founded the first travel website (GetThere) in 1995, is behind a Kickstarter project called Hypothes.is. #peer

When someone starts to feel like they're being "climbed," one action we've heard is that they review that person's tweets and evaluate the level of tweet-dropping, over-enthusiasm and level of aggressiveness to include themselves. #twitter

In other words, that language users make sense of conversation because there is some sort of principle they know of and on which they implicitly agreed. These are claims of the type: "They, i.e. the users, assume such and such" Again, what examples can do, is definitely refute the opposite claim - that there is no such assumption - and lend some support to what that assumption is. #method

Self improvement is all about being better at being ready they say, it's daunting because it is until you are #doing something

In our discussion, we may decide it is true that; poetry adds depth to our interior life, puts a face on our spiritual musings, gives legs to our imagination, opens mind-gates long closed by habit and routine, and jumpstarts our enthusiastic thought. While sharing the readings we shall attempt to address questions about the intention of the writers and the relevance of poetry in our age. #poesy

Continually being updated by a team of ten - shows that our technological evolution continues at the same pace no matter the economic ups and downs. #up

If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward. #employment