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Astronomers working with NASA’s Kepler mission said Thursday that a pair of newly discovered planets in the constellation Lyra appear capable of supporting life.

Astronomers working with NASA’s Kepler planet-finding spacecraft said that they have found the most Earth-like worlds yet known in space, a pair of planets that appear capable of supporting life. 

Explore some of the planets the Kepler mission has discovered:http://nyti.ms/XU0fig

Life’s highlights have always been experiences, i.e., events. Even when those experiences are related to objects. Life-changing, good, bad, teaching, quick or once in a lifetime experiences that is. Perhaps there had been times where people chose possessions over experiences, but at the end, when evaluating our lives, it all comes down to how much we experienced in life.

The success and popularity of some objects has everything to do with experiences too. Take the iPhone for example. It’s not just a fancy phone. It’s your assistant, your pocket map, not just a phone but a communications center, your camera, your video camera, etc. It enhances the way you live life and enables you to share those experiences.

Next time you need to decide between an object of desire and a life experience, the decision should be easy. You already know the answer.

Here’s to a life full of adventures!

theeconomist:

Would you rather have a $5,000 watch or a $5,000 trip to Europe? Marc Cenedella of TheLadders.com predicts you’ll choose the trip. Why? “People are spending more and more of their time with experiences, rather than products,” he says in this video from The Economist’s Ideas Economy events series. 

An onion stole my heart. She was there. Sitting at the bottom of the crisper drawer. She had been there since last week. When she first arrived home she was a robust, round, white and magnificent whole onion. Little by little and day after day, she lost bits and pieces here and there. It all probably started with a quiche, then soup followed by a mediterranean salad. The day before yesterday, all that was left was barely a stub. And then, she decided to live. She decided that life was worth living, even in a dark and cold place like the fridge. Roots began sprouting. Bright green leaves popped from the top of the stub. This onion simply and decidedly refused to stop living. Yesterday morning, when I saw her lying all chopped but yet lush and lively, her plan to escape death was a complete success. She stole my heart. So I decided to give her the chance she deserves. A bright clean mason jar became her new home. The technique to keep her alive is basically the same I use for sprouting seeds at home. She gets watered twice a day and tons of sunlight. No living thing that hangs onto life that way deserves to die. Here’s to you, my new and beloved Onion Sprout. May you live a long and happy life.
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An onion stole my heart.

She was there. Sitting at the bottom of the crisper drawer. She had been there since last week. When she first arrived home she was a robust, round, white and magnificent whole onion. Little by little and day after day, she lost bits and pieces here and there. It all probably started with a quiche, then soup followed by a mediterranean salad. The day before yesterday, all that was left was barely a stub. And then, she decided to live. She decided that life was worth living, even in a dark and cold place like the fridge. Roots began sprouting. Bright green leaves popped from the top of the stub. This onion simply and decidedly refused to stop living. Yesterday morning, when I saw her lying all chopped but yet lush and lively, her plan to escape death was a complete success. She stole my heart.

So I decided to give her the chance she deserves. A bright clean mason jar became her new home. The technique to keep her alive is basically the same I use for sprouting seeds at home. She gets watered twice a day and tons of sunlight. No living thing that hangs onto life that way deserves to die.

Here’s to you, my new and beloved Onion Sprout. May you live a long and happy life.

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