Reblogged from antoniomugica
Antonio Mugica
The Kessler Foundation has created a commercial robotic exoskeleton. The exoskeleton justly dubbed “Ekso” will be tested by the Foundation in conjunction with Ekso Bionics.
Ekso is a wearable device. It is battery powered and was created for the sole purpose of…
(via emergentfutures)
I have the love of a wolf
Don’t consult ghosts in your time of need
Their affairs do not concern the living
I get my advice from the ground
Or putting my ear to a tree
I hear I’m doing quite well
I’m told I have the love of a wolf.
I want to be 100 but life is so challenging, humans can be so hard on the living. Let’s all stay alive to see what magic cards fate deals us xox
“Since her election, the Harvard-educated economist, who spent 12 years in exile after criticizing her predecessors, has used her impressive negotiating skills and credibility to persuade the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to forgive $4.6 billion in debt. At home, she has cajoled former enemies to work together to rebuild the economy.”
In September, we selected Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia, as one of our 2011 Trailblazers. Now she’s a Nobel Peace Prize winner! This shot was taken on April 30, in a helicopter, on her way to launch her re-election campaign. Read her interview.
Photograph by Brigitte Lacombe
(via npr)
Nobel Peace Prize winners. From left to right: President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia (AP Photo); Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee (AP); Yemeni Tawakul Karman who head the organisation Women Journalists Without Chains (AP).
They were awarded the prize for “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.” Johnson-Sirleaf is Liberia’s first elected female president and has acted as a reformer in her time in office. Gbowee organized a group of Christian and Muslim women to stand up to Liberian warlords. Karman is a Yemeni journalist who is both a women’s rights activist and a leading protest organiser in Yemen’s Arab Spring uprisings.
(via poptech)
