Hi. Since it's been a week since my last blog post, and I'm way behind on reading my feed, I'm just pinging the world to let all my followers know that I'm still here. I haven't abandoned Steemit or given

So I received my invitation to the Akasha beta a few days ago, and wandered over to peer under the hood. Well not really, because I'm not a programmer or even a blockchain expert. But I at least kicked

Religion. Spirituality. Philosophy. Buddhism. Meditation retreats. World travel. Fortune-tellers. Career changes. Mid-life crises. Quarter-life crises. What do all of these things have in common? They

Mother & child have an intimate conversation. This is my entry for the black & white photo contest - animals theme. I took this at the zoo in Munich with a Fujifilm Finepix AX300 (cheapo digital

Lungs aflame, heart ramming like a jackhammer. She crashed through the underbrush, sweat slick against her neoprene suit. A shot pealed somewhere behind her, ripping through the still air of the morning.

I'm no expert with a camera, but I bought an old used DSLR a couple of years ago and I like to play around with it once in a while. I've written here and here about my two month internship in Terengganu,

In North America and western Europe we are a bit snobbish about science. Everything has to be done with rigour and precision or it's not real science. We can afford to think that way because we have enough

I'm too tired to write something tonight, so I give you... brutal nature at it's most fascinating: a spider the size of my entire hand eats a live caterpillar while it thrashes around. I took this video

During my master studies I spent two months doing an internship at a university in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. The city of Kuala Terengganu is in the northeastearn part of the Malaysian mainland, the most

Last time we worked on understanding people you disagree with or dislike. Now it's time to start putting your empathy into action! PUTTING YOUR EMPATHY INTO ACTION If you are not yet confident about your

In the first part of this series, I talked about why the world needs more empathy. In the second part, I explained ways to increase or recharge your empathy. Now it's time to put your empathy into action.

In the first part of this empathy series, I talked about how the world is broken and empathy is the key to healing. Now lets look at ways which we can increase our powers of empathy to better understand

THE WORLD IS HURTING Many countries, including the U.S. and Britain, which are looked up to as world leaders, are deeply divided over politics. Brexit, followed by the election of Donald Trump, shocked

Every morning old Jeremiah Stuart took his coffee mug and his cardboard sign down to the park bench. He placed the sign on the bench next to him and sipped his coffee, waiting. The sign read: SIT HERE

"Gay people should all be taken out and shot,” I said. I was 16 and knew everything. Today one of my closest friends is gay, and I cringe to think of what I said 20 years ago. But those words actually

Hi, I'm new to Steemit, so I'd like to briefly introduce myself. My name is Shawn Dove. I'm a marine biologist from Canada, currently living in Germany with my lovely wife and daughter. I’m a scientist,