Google collects a ton of information about you -- maybe even more than you realize. Google remembers every search you perform and every YouTube video you watch. Whether you have an iPhone or Android phone, Google Maps logs everywhere you go, the route you take to get there, when you arrive and what time you leave -- even if you never open the app.

“Parents now shape their children’s digital identity long before these young people open their first email. The disclosures parents make online are sure to follow their children into adulthood,”

Beeban Kidron has successfully pushed stricter limits on how tech companies can target children online in Britain.

When James Stockdale was shot down in Vietnam, he was taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese. He spent seven years being tortured and subjected to unimaginable loneliness and terror. He had little choice over the fact that he was shot down, or that he was taken prison.

The orphaned calf even learned to act like a bottlenose dolphin, gaining acceptance into the community.

In India, thousands of low-caste women have banded together to become vigilantes. They’re doing what the courts and police can’t: holding men accountable.

This water, the softest substance in the world, which could be contained in the smallest jar, only seemed weak. In reality, it could penetrate the hardest substance in the world.

"First, you stoke hatred and fear of minorities," then you round them up and put them in camps. Next, you send out raiding parties to get those who have been driven into hiding. The armbands come next right?"

MANAGE the OUTCOME

We’ve all been there. We get mad, down, offended by failure to the same result. Try the opposite next time and say “Good.”

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SOME BATTLE

With 2014 fast approaching I wondered what happened in 1014. Most notably was The Battle of Kleidion which took place on July 29, 1014 between the Bulgarian Empire and the Byzantine Empire.