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Just let us know that you want to write a blog in keeping with the ideals of the Urantia community, and we'll set it up for you. Contact: info@urantiauniversity.org Humans are possessed of infinite possibilities for doing good purposefully. And countless spiritual agencies are always ready to help us in serving our brothers and sisters. Sometimes it's hard to know where to start. Some simple advice: Start where your passion is. What's important to you? What do you care most about? There's not enough room on the page to list all the opportunities and ideas for helping others, but here's a jump start list: Working with youth
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| In a world of too much information, here's The Science of Love Did you know that the act of loving and receiving love actually makes us healthier and more resilient? In this article by Barbara Fredrickson, learn about the biochemistry behind the "benign virus of love" and how it works to reward us when we are more loving. Videos we recommend because they add something of value to human progress ... Which Contains More Information? Check out this totally amazing video by Dr. Derek Muller, one of YouTube's most engaging science teachers. He presents complex concepts in easy to understand language. You will learn a lot about language, information processing and yourself!
Presented by Daphne Koller, Stanford University TedTalks | August 1, 2012 Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. With Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), each keystroke, quiz, peer-to-peer discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed. Daphne and Andrew are advocates of MOOC's (massive open online courses). They launched Coursera in April 2012. By April 2014, Coursera had 7.1 million users in 641 courses from 108 institutions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6FvJ6jMGHU Dark Energy: A New Standard Model for Physics? In this video presentation, the BBC's science correspondent, Pallab Ghosh, explains in a clear and easy-to-understand way why modern physics is set for its next big revolution in thinking. The revolution is centered on a mysterious force called dark energy. Dark energy, along with dark matter, makes up 96% of the universe, yet scientists have no idea what it is. The force is causing the expansion of the Universe to continue to accelerate rather than slow down and collapse in on itself, as current theories would suggest.
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