My twitter stream brought this video to me today:

http://video.l3.fbcdn.net/cfs-l3-snc6/81489/34/1605260179420_2624.mp4?oh=ac31...

It shows waters rushing into a port town. Watch and listen. Respect the power of moving water.

I feel sad for zoo animals when I visit them, but happy that my kids (and others) have the chance to see magnificent animals like this beautiful bad boy.

Here's the best holiday video I've seen this year:

It looks like a classroom of students in an Alaskan town put this together creatively and thoughtfully. Viewers see a slice of winter life in the village, and the kids pull in quite a number of people to help 'sing' the 'Messiah' with them.

At Saturday's commencement, our speaker, Dr. David Russell, the new commissioner for higher education in Missouri, gave an address that included lots of goodies.  He also lifted a story that we quite similar to a poem by Taylor Mali, so I thought I'd put this out there for people to enjoy:

Remember, teaching is the profession that makes all professions possible.

This weekend, while I was playing hookey from Church, I stumbled upon this program on Fareed Zakaria's GPS, on CNN. It was a program titled "Restoring the American Dream" and it talks about what America needs to do get back on track to be the world's greatest economic powerhouse.

http://rss.cnn.com/~r/services/podcasting/fareedzakaria/rss/~3/-EpSlZG9tW8/gp...
I liked this program so much I made the students in my Senior Seminar (for mathematics majors) sit through it. I hope it gave them a sense for the ideas in Zakaria's The Post-American World and Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat. it also suggested that Seth Godin's Linchpin could be useful for those who are about to graduate from college.

As many people are saying, "Too Cool Not To Share": http://bit.ly/16aH9v. A 'video' of Christoph Rehage's year-long walk through China. Inspirational. Fun. Creative.