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Fun Facts About Color

Ever wonder why the Purple Heart is Purple or why Surrender Flags are White? I read this interesting article by Alison Caporimo in Reader’s Digest (printed version) October 2014.  Enjoy! www.rd.com/culture/why-is-money-green/

Don’t believe everything you read on Facebook

Don’t believe everything, or maybe anything, you read on social media. In the wake of Trump’s stunning upset last week, media analysts have worked feverishly to figure out how social media may have altered the outcome of this election. From carefully targeted (attacks) to fake websites with false polling place addresses, online voter-suppression tactics wreak …

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What the Nonprofit Sector Needs to Reach It’s Full Potential

By DAN PALLOTTA The nonprofit sector has limbs. It has fingers that reach into the most neglected corners of society, forearms that lead large national chapter and affiliate organizations, legs made up of the nation’s foundations and massive individual donor base that fund it and help it to move. It has blood pumping through its …

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Little Planets

An article that I thought was very interesting and pretty cool came from this one artist, Janis Petke, who created pictures from google earth by using Photoshop to capture her audience’s attention. She created miniature globes from the images that were posted on google earth. It almost doesn’t look real…but she took 30-40 screenshots using …

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