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Smile Newsletter: Changing A Tire And Teaching A Son

Mar 11, 2012 “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” — TS Eliot ” I found a wallet in the road while I was on my way somewhere. There was no money inside. I drove to the address on the drivers license not far from where I had found it and gave it to the person who answered the door. I put $10 in the wallet before returning it.” — anonymous [ share your story >> ] You can also contribute comments on each story! Flowers For A Stranger >> Changing a Tire and Teaching a Son >> The Security Guard’s Idea! >> More Stories >> “Being kind is a way of life. It’s a choice each day. There is somethimg magical and whimsical about being kind. The ripple effect is fun to observe and quietly recognize your tiny part in what may be a miracle in the making for someone.” — TheBrokeGiver What is a “smile card”? It’s a game of kindness — do something nice for someone and leave a card behind asking them to pay it forward. To date, 1,014,181 cards have been shipped without any charge. The ‘Smiles’ newsletter is emailed to 88,799 subscribers with the intent of spreading more smiles in the world. You can unsubscribe anytime. get smile cards | donate | write to us

How Language Enabled Innovation and Evolution

A different language is a different vision of life. — Federico Fellini

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Good News of the Day:
“How did ‘culture’ develop, exactly? Language, says evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel, was instrumental in enabling social learning — our ability to acquire evolutionarily beneficial new behaviors by watching and imitating others, which in turn accelerated our species on a trajectory of what anthropologists call ‘cumulative cultural evolution,’ a bustling of ideas successively building and improving on others. It might seem, then, that protecting our ideas would have been the best evolutionary strategy. Yet that’s not what happened — instead, we embraced this ‘theft,’ a cornerstone of remix culture, and propelled ourselves into a collaboratively crafted future of exponential innovation.”
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Use language to enable innovation and collective evolution: share your best ideas freely today.

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