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9 minutes
[ Education ]
Inspiring the Next Generation of Thought Leaders!
Think about it, the next generation of thought leaders is sitting in a classroom right now! How will we inspire them, and make sure they can explore their passions?
13 minutes
[ Animals ]
Celebrating 600: Proof This Is Still An Amazing World!
By Dr. Lynda
As the 24-hour news cycle seems to spiral ever downward, EWC is the new place on the web for exactly the opposite trajectory! We are connecting you to countless reasons to think the future is so amazingly bright. Take a look!
55 minutes
[ Curators' Best ]
Free Diving: Letting Limitations Go
By Dr. Lynda
Through a chance meeting, freediving lessons taught us to rethink our own limitations and leave them behind. Learn to do that yourself in today’s article.
8 minutes
[ Conservation & Sustainability ]
Litterati: Connecting Us All and Changing Paradigms!
By Dr. Lynda
Have you heard of the amazing social media project that can eliminate litter from our planet? It’s bringing together ordinary people, brands, governments and the power of big data–all with a novel artistic magnetism!
47 minutes
[ Animals ]
Can Animals Communicate Deep Thoughts and Emotions?
By Dr. Lynda
Have you ever had an experience with an animal that left you certain that animals have rich emotional lives and thoughts we might relate to very well? Today’s feature will make you feel very wise.
9 minutes
[ Animals ]
Unlikely Heroes: The Hidden Gems of 2016 on EWC!
By Dr. Lynda
Once in a while it’s good to travel with a guide who really knows the hidden gems in any landscape, the extraordinary things that shouldn’t be missed. Today, let us be your guide to some remarkable hidden gems of possibility!
9 minutes
[ Creativity ]
“Bohemian Gravity”: Can A Capella, Classic Rock, and Quantum Physics Mix?
What do you get when you cross the iconic rock of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody with a cappella skill? Fun. And when you add in mind-bending quantum physics? Mathematically musical brilliance!
14 minutes
[ Business ]
The Best Way to Improve the World Around Us
By Dr. Lynda
Here is a TED Talk that could be a prescription for solving many of the world’s most vexing problems! What if we emulated some of the quirkier characteristics of the most original thinkers and idea people?
9 minutes
[ Art ]
Turning Pollution into Paint: Update on the Toxic Art Project!
By Dr. Lynda
Here’s an update on a project we featured two years ago when it was still a primordial concept. Now it’s an inspirational story with all the elements of the best kind of progress!
9 minutes
Simple Ideas Lead to Discovery
By Dr. Lynda
Mythbusting aside, Adam Savage is a great storyteller. Take 8 minutes for him to prove how a simple idea can change the world!
10 minutes
[ Art ]
The Wild Potential of Embracing Our Limitations
By Dr. Lynda
What if embraced our limitations? What possibilities might we discover if we just owned them and let them force us to get creative. We might actually find possibilities we would never have discovered. Take a look at how remarkable this mindset can be!
23 minutes
[ Business ]
Navigating the Most Effective Way to Give
By Dr. Lynda
Ready for a transforming experience? Today’s article will up-end your old notions about charity, and then totally empower you to evaluate the charities you give to! Dan Pallota’s insightful TED Talk shows us the end of charities that we never would have guessed. Enjoy!
12 minutes
[ Art ]
Gratitude and Wonder with Louie Schwartzberg
By Dr. Lynda
Photographer Louie Schwartzberg brings us all to a place of breath-taking beauty, wonder and hope with his TED Talk, remarkable images and the words of wise ones, young and old. This TED Talk leaves us with a sigh and a smile every time we revisit it.
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Meet the EWC Team!
Ever Widening Circles is headquartered in lovely St. Albans, Vermont in the United States of America. With the idyllic backdrop of Vermont’s rolling hills, and a quintessential New England charm of Downtown St. Albans. It’s an inspiring place to be starting a website that celebrates the fact that this is still an amazing world (our motto)…. Read more »
9 minutes
[ Curators' Best ]
The Power of Giving People a “Lollipop Moment”
By Dr. Lynda
Heard anything about “Lollipop Moments”? Here’s an amazing metaphor to remember how easy it is to fundamentally improve someone’s life with just a simple turn of a phrase!
19 minutes
[ Curators' Best ]
Celebrate the New Year with a Tour of the Future!
By Dr. Lynda
There is no better way to ring in the New Year than celebrating all the potential in the future! Here are some great reasons to go into 2018 with a whole new mindset!
18 minutes
[ Happiness & Hope ]
The Perspective We’ve Forgotten
What if we all realized we are the center of our own (or someone else’s) universe? Would chaos rein? Maybe not!
14 minutes
[ Happiness & Hope ]
A Drug Free Approach to Depression and Melancholy!
By Dr. Lynda
Science is vastly improving our options when it comes to depression. Here’s a very insightful TED Talk that might put a spring in your step, literally and figuratively!
60 minutes
[ Business ]
An Interview with Ever Widening Circles!
Have you heard the Ever Widening Circles backstory? Today, we bring you a unique piece, this time featuring our back story, how we got here, and where we are headed next!
20 minutes
[ Happiness & Hope ]
PopTech: People and Possibility Rising
By Dr. Lynda
When it feels like the only new knowledge that comes our way is bad news, it’s time to find some new corners of the web that are always positive and insightful. Today we point you to one we know personally!
12 minutes
[ Business ]
Accomplish Any Goal by Reversing Things!
By Dr. Lynda
What if we could accomplish our goals by thinking in reverse, beginning with the end sharply in mind and working backwards? Here’s an amazingly useful thought experiment!
17 minutes
[ Curators' Best ]
A Crash Course in “Crash Course”
Ever find yourself on the internet aimlessly clicking to find great, engaging content? Let us introduce you to one of our favorite places on the internet, the incredible YouTube channel, Crash Course!
30 minutes
[ Culture ]
#TryPod Let Us Introduce You!
#Trypod has us excited about some of our favorite Podcasts! Learn a few thing about Podcasts and let us recommend a few of our favorites along the way!
14 minutes
[ Education ]
Kelvin Doe: The Youngest MIT Visiting Practitioner
By Dr. Lynda
If you think children could be more inspired, we do to! So today, we have a bonus for you: we look at a young man who, at only 15 years old in Sierra Leone, found things in trash cans to create a working radio station, AND we introduce our “Educational Enrichment” pages!
19 minutes
[ Animals ]
GoPro and the Orca Rescue
By Dr. Lynda
Can you imagine the exhilaration of setting an enormous, wild animal like an Orca (Killer Whale) free after it has been entangled by fishing gear? Today we explore their beauty and intelligence with the magic a Go Pro can bring to research.
9 minutes
Save the Shoes! (Don’t Wait to be a Hero!)
By Dr. Lynda
After years of dreaming of heroics, firefighter Mark Bezos rushed into a burning house… to save shoes? And you can too! Find out what we mean in today’s feature.
19 minutes
[ Innovation ]
DARPA: Removing the Fear of Failure
By Dr. Lynda
What would our lives look like if we could shake our fear of failure? What would you try tomorrow if failure wasn’t a bad thing? Enter: DARPA, a place we might find a new mindset! Take a look at the TED Talk by Regina Dugan and become a better you!
23 minutes
[ Business ]
The Power of a Smile and a Compliment
Is it possible to enhance another’s day with a simple smile or kind word? EWC thinks so!
[ Stories ]
EWC is a Gift in Egypt
By Dr. Lynda
“Waking up each morning in Cairo Egypt to read your uplifting and interesting messages has really been a gift…”
