I really loved J.K. Rowling’s Harvard Commencement Address.
She is so witty & down to earth :), and she nailed it with “The Fringe Benefits of Failure“.
J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.
SCHOOLED
- Want to learn how shoes (high heeled ones especially) are made? (The Shoe Girl)
- School Districts are Banning Hugs (Psychology Today)
- Why we should resist bottled water. Like now. (Sarah Wilson)
- Bargain, Negotiate & Haggle like an Indian (Absolutely Fobulous) — Agreed with all the tactics
- 20 Weird Interview MBA Questions (Business Insider) — Some weird ones in here.
- Beware of the person of your dreams (Blogs) — Elin Woods, anyone?
- Does the colour red have magical powers? (Barking up the wrong tree)
Do you have an acrobatic mind?
If you do, you are in the 55% of people who are able to do so, and you able to read this paragraph because your brain sees the first & last letters in their correct position, and the letters in the middle can be in any order.
But it does give me a headache, reading that… :\
Note: I tested this on BF, a fluent English speaker & writer, and he had no idea what it was saying. So I did the experiment in French:
Sleon une édtue de l’Uvinertisé de Cmabrigde, l’odrre des ltteers dnas un mtos n’a pas d’ipmrotncae, la suele coshe ipmrotnate est que la pmeirère et la drenèire soit à la bnnoe pclae. Le rsete peut êrte dnas un dsérorde ttoal et vuos puoevz tujoruos lrie snas porlblème. C’est prace que le creaveu hmauin ne lit pas chuaqe ltetre elle-mmêe, mias le mot cmome un tuot.
And he understood it. But I did, too….if I concentrated really hard.
PROJECTS
- Hand-made, detailed miniature Lord of the Rings Hobbit Hole (Mad Hobbit’s Hole) — AWESOME!
- Start seeing magnetic fields (Evil Mad Scientist)
- Lemon Lotion – A Natural Astringent (Make it from scratch)
- Rethink about how to hang your art (Apartment Therapy)
EDUCATIONAL DOCUMENTARIES
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Hm. I’m not a native English speaker, but I can read the “messy” test just fine.
Maybe because I’m a girl? They’re supposed to do better in foreign languages, aren’t they?
Reading the French text takes me longer to understand, so I can not really *read* it, but I was able to decipher it.
(Not a native French speaker, too, obviously.)
Could it read it both languages, although there's the occasional word where it didn't come automatically (I had to try to decipher).
I could read it! Yay! Guess I have an acrobatic mind! … Thank you so much for linking to JK Rowling's speech.. she spoke so well!
Wow! I have always like J.K. Rowling. but now I LOVE her. That speech brought actual tears to my eyes. I will definitely remember her words (or at least the impression left by them) unlike the words of whomever spoke at my graduations that have already been forgotten.
That’s how I felt after watching the video. I LOVE her.
Interestingly, I couldn't automatically figure out "Cambridge" until I saw your rewording of it 😛