TV Sex, Love, & Romance ? 2012?s Best & Worst Relationships ...

Looking for something to keep you cozy as 2012 comes to a chilly close? TVLine hereby kicks off its two-part review of the year in TV with this heartwarming (and perhaps other body parts-warming) rundown of the year?s most notable sex- and love-related moments on TV.

This gallery captures what and who we loved, hated and couldn?t shut up about for the past 12 months. Best Love Story? Most Kick-Ass Parent? Sex Scene That Made Us Most Uncomfortable? Yeah, it?s all in here.

Click through the gallery below, then hit the comments with your thoughts. Which of our picks do you like? Which would you swap? Coming Thursday: Part 2 of our review, including Most Disappointing Show, Most Underrated Actor, Best Show No One Was Watching, Wackiest Plot Twist and other categories.



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Drink Recipe: Hibiscus Ginger Punch Recipes from The Kitchn | The ...

2012_12_20-hibiscus1.jpgMost punch recipes cater to a single crowd: drinkers or non-drinkers. This one is delicious either way. Whether you fizz it up with champagne or mineral water, hibiscus ginger punch will put a colorful sparkle in your celebrations.

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When I started dreaming of a festive punch, I initially considered cranberry or pomegranate but, frankly, I was a bit tired of these ingredients, which appear in every other beverage this time of year. Instead, I turned to a holiday tradition from Jamaica, where a drink called "sorrel" is made from hibiscus blossoms. Throughout the world, dried hibiscus or roselle is steeped in water to make crimson-colored tisanes, juices, and punches, and in Jamaica especially the hibiscus is combined with ginger for a tart and pleasantly spicy beverage.

To make this punch, I mixed a rich hibiscus and ginger base with ginger ale and then either champagne, sparkling white wine, or sparkling mineral water. For the non-alcoholic version I recommend using a true mineral water (like Perrier) rather than other carbonated waters. Its subtle mineral flavor and more delicate bubbles are a sophisticated substitute for the alcohol. But use any fizzy water that works for you.

On the subject of substitutions, what if you can't find dried hibiscus blossoms (also known as "flor de jamaica" in Latin American markets)? Try making a strong brew with hibiscus tea bags; Celestial Seasonings and The Republic of Tea are two widely available brands.

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Hibiscus Ginger Punch

Serves about 12

4 1/2 cups water
1 cup dried hibiscus blossoms
2-inch piece of ginger, thinly sliced
1 cup sugar
4 cups chilled ginger ale
2 750-mL bottles chilled champagne, sparkling white wine, or sparkling mineral water
Optional: ice, garnishes of mint, lemon or lime slices

Combine water, hibiscus blossoms, and ginger in a pot. Bring to a boil, then lower heat and simmer for 20 minutes. Turn off heat and stir in sugar. Let cool, strain, and chill. (If you like, save some of the plumped-up hibiscus blossoms for garnish.)

To make punch, stir hibiscus juice with ginger ale and champagne or mineral water. Garnish if desired and serve immediately.

Related: Recipe: Hibiscus-Earl Grey Iced Tea

(Images: Emily Ho)

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Paul Daley out of Bellator tournament after problems with visa arise

Paul Daley's next shot in MMA has hit a roadbump. The British fighter, who was cut from the UFC after he threw a cheap shot after the bell at Josh Koscheck in 2010, is out of Bellator's welterweight tournament. He can't enter the United States because of issues getting a work visa.

ESPN reports Daley was involved in a bar brawl and was charged with assault, which is the problem with the visa. Daley denies the brawl, and says via his Facebook page it was just a problem with his visa.

It seems as though (sp) a mass press release has gone out to the MMA media stating I was involved (in a) bar brawl, arrested, and cannot obtain a P-1 visa to compete in the USA. I am currently awaiting a decision on my visa, which is not expected until late April. Which means I am unable to compete in the season 8 Bellator tournament, as it starts in January. I will be fighting in Europe in the coming months, so I am able to stay active while awaiting a decision on my visa status. I was not involved in a bar brawl. This is 100-percent a false statement.

Previously, Daley has fought in the United States for Bellator, Strikeforce and the UFC without any visa issues.

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How Do I Tell My Friend Her Place Smells Like Cat Pee? | xoJane

I recently visited the apartment of a friend for the first time and got a narsty whiff of excessive cat pee. I was only there for about 5 minutes to drop something off, and I don?t know her all that well, so I don?t even know if she has cats. It?s one thing to break it to a close friend that her apartment reeks. It?s another thing entirely to unload your opinions on an acquaintance/stranger whose emotional intelligence has yet to be revealed to you. I?m kind of a pussy when it comes to this sort of thing, so I?d rather not say anything at all and pray that I never have to go over there again. But is that really the best way to handle this situation?

My former cat, Joga (named after Bj?rk?s song, which matches her personality dead-on), now belongs to my parents in a feline-owner switcheroo stealthily pulled off by my mom. She once read in some crazy Russian newspaper that cats are very handy in lowering high blood pressure, and asked if she could ?borrow? Joga for a couple of weeks to test out her new ?scientific? discovery. I lovingly obliged, sending the cat off to Pennsylvania, and yada yada yada, she still lives there like a fat furry princess two years later.

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Obligatory cat photo of Joga. (photo credit: Mom)

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But when Joga still lived with me in my pathetically cramped apartment, I?m proud to say my living quarters were never cat-pee-scented. None of my friends ever told me either way or anything, so maybe I?m just as na?ve as the current cat pee offender. My lovely circle of friends can be brutally honest sometimes though (Recent comments I've received: ?Your hair is super fried, but you could sorta pull it off if you were dressed like a surfer chick,? ?I hate your outfit, nothing matches,? and ?I have never seen you NOT dress slutty.?), so I?m going to assume they would have told it to me straight.

Since we?re on the topic of pet odor, let?s say you have a cat and you want to get to the root of the problem. How does one keep the pet stank out of the house, anyway?

I consulted my friend, a crazy cat lady who has not one but TWO cats (a ballsy move for New York City, imho) for advice. In all the years I?ve known her, her apartments have always smelled so fresh and so clean you?d never even know she had cats (of course, you?d know if you were Facebook friends with her, bitch posts photos of her cats and other random cats like it?s her JOB). Here is what she told me:

1. Clean the litter box every day. If you?re lazy, do it AT LEAST every other day.
2. Use Arm and Hammer brand cat litter, it?s awesome.
3. Mix in an odor-neutralizing powder in the litter (Arm & Hammer makes this stuff, too).
4. Place an odor absorber near the litter thingy.

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Mmmm, orange-scented urination.

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5. Dump the entire box of litter and wipe down the litter box and any affected area as often as possible. Once a month MINIMUM.
6. You are what you eat. Feed your cats high quality food for nicer-smelling droppings.

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Smelly cat, smelly cat, what are they feeding you?

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7. Invest in litter box ?furniture.? It can be pricey, but so worth the feeling of someone coming in and asking, ?Where on earth is your litter box??

For the price, I?d expect a rhinestone-encrusted model to match my iPhone, but it?s much classier than looking at a cat toilet that doesn?t flush.

This is pretty basic advice if you ask me (except for #5, which I never did. It?s really gross and I hate it, but you should do it), but for some reason some people just don?t get it, or maybe their sense of smell isn?t that great and they think it?s all good or something.

Now, some cats are gonna be dicks and disrespect your authority by refusing to cover up their daily deeds in the litter box, or they?ll leave little presents lying around for you in your household. If you are one of these people, these rules don?t apply. All I can say is I?m sorry and don?t piss off your cat, whatever you do. Good luck.

If you?re paranoid about your place smelling off, sans or avec pets, just use common sense and bomb it with air fresheners. Just do me a favor and use fancy stuff (Yankee candles = NO) so it looks like you know how to accessorize rather than trying to hide something.

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Anyway, back to my friend with the cat pee issue she is seemingly unaware of. I have thought long and hard about this and I still don?t have a solution. I could get all passive-aggressive-like on her and share this article on Facebook, hoping she sees it and magically realizes it?s about her. Do you have a better suggestion?

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Clippers roll past Celtics 106-77

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Matt Barnes tied his season high with 21 points off the bench, Chris Paul had 11 assists and the Los Angeles Clippers defeated Boston 106-77 on Thursday night, becoming the first team to win 15 consecutive games since the Celtics four years ago.

Fellow reserve Jamal Crawford added 17 points, Blake Griffin had 15 points and Caron Butler 14 to help the Clippers improve the NBA's best record to 23-6.

Kevin Garnett scored 16 points for Boston, which never led in dropping to .500 at 14-14 with its fifth loss in seven games. Paul Pierce and Jeff Green added 12 points each to go with 10 apiece from Jason Terry and Rajon Rondo.

Boston's winning streak extended to 19 games in 2008-09.

Barnes had the Clippers' first five points in a 9-0 run that opened the fourth quarter and boosted their lead to 90-67. Willie Green briefly played; otherwise the Clippers' other starters rested to close out the game.

The Celtics were held to 10 points in the final 12 minutes.

Garnett had six points in the third when the Celtics were narrowly outscored 22-20, but still trailed 82-67. The Clippers' 9-0 run pushed their lead to 21 points before Boston went on a 10-4 run, including 3-pointers by Courtney Lee and Rondo to end the quarter.

The game got chippy at times. In the third, Jared Sullinger was called for a flagrant-1 foul for grabbing the front of Griffin on his way up to dunk. Then Butler and Pierce emerged from a big mass both holding onto the ball, leading to a jump ball. In the first, Rondo was lying on the ball and Paul tried to take it out from under him on the sideline, leading to a testy moment.

The Celtics cut their deficit to four points early in the second quarter ? the closest they came after the opening quarter ? with consecutive 3-pointers by Terry and Lee before the Clippers' second unit rebuilt the double-digit lead the starters had created. Crawford scored 13 points for Los Angeles, highlighted by a fast-break floater and a rainbow 3. He scored the final four points to keep the Clippers ahead 60-47 heading into halftime.

The Clippers came roaring out of the opening tip, outscoring the Celtics 24-9.

NOTES: The Clippers are assured of finishing December as their best month ever with two games remaining, including the second half of a back-to-back at Utah. They've already surpassed the franchise record for most wins in a month, bettering the old mark of 12 shared by the 1974-75 Buffalo Braves and the 1991-92 Clippers (which included Celtics coach Doc Rivers). ... Boston fell to 5-9 on the road. ... The Clippers' last loss was on Nov. 26 at home against New Orleans. ... Justin Bieber (who had Paul's young son sitting on his lap), Billy Crystal and Olympic 200 sprint champion Allyson Felix were among the Clippers' 67th consecutive sellout crowd.

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Paul Daley out of Bellator tournament after problems with visa arise

Paul Daley's next shot in MMA has hit a roadbump. The British fighter, who was cut from the UFC after he threw a cheap shot after the bell at Josh Koscheck in 2010, is out of Bellator's welterweight tournament. He can't enter the United States because of issues getting a work visa.

ESPN reports Daley was involved in a bar brawl and was charged with assault, which is the problem with the visa. Daley denies the brawl, and says via his Facebook page it was just a problem with his visa.

It seems as though (sp) a mass press release has gone out to the MMA media stating I was involved (in a) bar brawl, arrested, and cannot obtain a P-1 visa to compete in the USA. I am currently awaiting a decision on my visa, which is not expected until late April. Which means I am unable to compete in the season 8 Bellator tournament, as it starts in January. I will be fighting in Europe in the coming months, so I am able to stay active while awaiting a decision on my visa status. I was not involved in a bar brawl. This is 100-percent a false statement.

Previously, Daley has fought in the United States for Bellator, Strikeforce and the UFC without any visa issues.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/paul-daley-bellator-tournament-problems-visa-arise-133424597--mma.html

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blondelle seamanship: Simple Abundance Exercises Can Change ...

Article title: Simple Abundance Exercises Can Change Your Mindset
Article Category: Self-Improvement

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When you feel more prosperous, you will lead life of improved health, happiness and prosperity. However, when most of us think about our finances, most of the time we don?t have thoughts of prosperity.
Continue reading this article?

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Stores look to week after Christmas for sales

Shoppers walk past an H&M location, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, in New York. This holiday season is shaping up to be the weakest since the country was in the middle of a deep recession in 2008. That not only shows that stores misread Americans' willingness to spend during this period of economic uncertainty. It also could indicate that the days of throngs of shoppers spending thousands of dollars willy nilly on holiday gifts may be long gone. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Shoppers walk past an H&M location, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, in New York. This holiday season is shaping up to be the weakest since the country was in the middle of a deep recession in 2008. That not only shows that stores misread Americans' willingness to spend during this period of economic uncertainty. It also could indicate that the days of throngs of shoppers spending thousands of dollars willy nilly on holiday gifts may be long gone. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Shoppers navigate their way around Toys R Us in Times Square Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, in New York. This holiday season is shaping up to be the weakest since the country was in the middle of a deep recession in 2008. That not only shows that stores misread Americans' willingness to spend during this period of economic uncertainty. It also could indicate that the days of throngs of shoppers spending thousands of dollars willy nilly on holiday gifts may be long gone. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Shoppers navigate their way around Toys R Us in Times Square Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, in New York. This holiday season is shaping up to be the weakest since the country was in the middle of a deep recession in 2008. That not only shows that stores misread Americans' willingness to spend during this period of economic uncertainty. It also could indicate that the days of throngs of shoppers spending thousands of dollars willy nilly on holiday gifts may be long gone. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Shoppers navigate their way around Toys R Us in Times Square Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, in New York. This holiday season is shaping up to be the weakest since the country was in the middle of a deep recession in 2008. That not only shows that stores misread Americans' willingness to spend during this period of economic uncertainty. It also could indicate that the days of throngs of shoppers spending thousands of dollars willy nilly on holiday gifts may be long gone. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

In this Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, photo, a holiday shopper walks past a large Christmas tree at Fashion Island shopping center in Newport Beach, Calif. U.S. holiday retail sales this year are the weakest since 2008, after a shopping season disrupted by storms and rising uncertainty among consumers. A report out Tuesday that tracks spending, called MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse, says holiday sales increased 0.7 percent. Analysts had expected sales to grow 3 to 4 percent. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Bargain-hungry Americans will need to go on a post-Christmas spending binge to salvage this holiday shopping season.

Despite the huge discounts and other incentives that stores offered leading up to Christmas, U.S. holiday sales so far this year have been the weakest since 2008, when the nation was in a deep recession.

So stores now are depending on the days after Christmas to make up lost ground: The final week of December can account for about 15 percent of the month's sales, and the day after Christmas is typically one of the biggest shopping days of the year.

Stores, which don't typically talk about their plans for sales and other promotions during the season, are known for offering discounts of up to 70 percent after the holiday. This year, they're hoping to lure more bargain hunters who held off on shopping because they wanted to get the best deals of the season.

The Macy's location in Herald Square in New York was bustling with shoppers on Wednesday. There were a variety of deals throughout the store: candy dispensers for 70 percent off, various men's clothes were "buy one get one free," belts for 50 percent off, a bin of ties for $9.99.

Ulises Guzman, 30, a social worker, was shopping in the store. He said he waited to shop until the final days before Christmas, knowing that the deals would get better as stores got more desperate. He said he was expecting discounts of at least 50 percent.

The strategy worked. He saw a coat he wanted at Banana Republic for $200 in the days before Christmas but decided to hold off on making a purchase; on Wednesday, he got it for $80.

"I'm not looking at anything that's original price," he said.

Lenox Square Mall in Atlanta was also crowded by midday on Wednesday. Laschonda Pitluck, 18, a student in Atlanta, was shopping after Christmas because she wanted to get the best deals. Last year she spent over $100 on gifts but this year she's keeping it under $50.

Pitluck said she found items for 50 percent off, including a hoodie and jeans for herself at American Eagle and a shirt at Urban Outfitters. She said she would have bought the clothes if they hadn't been 50 percent off.

"I wasn't looking for deals before Christmas," said Pitluck, who also bought boxers for her boyfriend.

The shopping rush after Christmas illustrates just how important holiday sales are. Consumer spending accounts for 70 percent of economic activity, and many retailers can make up to 40 percent of their annual revenue during the two-month holiday period at the end of the year.

So far, holiday sales of electronics, clothing, jewelry and home goods in the two months before Christmas increased 0.7 percent compared with last year, according to the MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse report. SpendingPulse, which tracks spending, said that's the weakest holiday performance since 2008 when sales dropped sharply, although the company did not know by how much.

The SpendingPulse data released Tuesday, which captures sales from Oct. 28 through Dec. 24 across all payment methods, is the first major snapshot of holiday retail sales. A clearer picture will emerge next week as retailers like Macy's and Target report monthly sales.

In the run-up to Christmas, analysts blamed bad weather for putting a damper on shopping. In late October, Superstorm Sandy battered the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states, which account for 24 percent of U.S. retail sales. That, coupled with the presidential election, hurt sales during the first half of November.

Shopping picked up in the second half of November, but then the threat of the country falling off a "fiscal cliff" gained strength, throwing consumers off track once again. Lawmakers have yet to reach a deal that would prevent tax increases and government spending cuts set to take effect at the beginning of 2013. If the cuts and tax hikes kick in and stay in place for months, the Congressional Budget Office says the nation could fall back into recession.

Still, The National Retail Federation, the nation's largest retail trade group, said Wednesday the trade group is sticking to its forecast for sales in the November and December period to be up 4.1 percent to $586.1 billion this year. That's more than a percentage point lower than the growth in each of the past two years, and the smallest increase since 2009 when sales were up just 0.3 percent.

Kathy Grannis, a spokeswoman for the group, noted that the trade group's definition of holiday sales not only includes clothes and electronics, but also food and building supplies.

"Stores have a big week ahead, and it's still too early to know how the holiday season fared, at this point," she said.

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Anderson reported from Atlanta and Choi reported from New York.

Ann D'Innocenzio in New York and Daniel Wagner in Washington contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Well, hello there.

Hi.
My name is Rina, however I go by Splash on the internet. It's a family thing.
You see, I'm quite new to roleplaying. I've been a tad obsessed with story writing of just about any genre for the past couple of years, and a thought came to me as I Googled more fan fictions; "What if I were to start roleplaying?"
Being curious, I looked up a couple of roleplaying sites and decided that this one sounded promising.
So here I am; introducing myself and feeling like quite the prize fool.
I'd really be grateful if I could make some new friends here, generalise myself with the layout of these forums and find a couple of good role-plays to join. Any help is very much appreciated.
Thank you for taking the time out to read this. :3

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Dot Earth Blog: Exploring the Roots of an Emerging Planet-Spanning Mind

I?m grateful to Krista Tippett, the host of the captivating public radio program ?On Being,? for including me in an exploration of the present-day resonance of ?noosphere,? the concept of an?emerging global intelligence?shaped in the early 20th century by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit priest, philosopher and paleontologist (with others). You can read two of Teilhard?s most influential books touching on this concept ? ?The Phenomenon of Man? and ?The Future of Man? ? online.

On Dot Earth and in lectures of late, I?ve offered a contemporary spelling and framing: Knowosphere.?Tippett first speaks with?Ursula King, a Teilhard scholar and professor emerita of theology and religious studies at the University of Bristol. Then comes?David Sloan Wilson, the?SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University in New York and author of a suite of lauded books on evolution and society.

Teilhard sometimes gets disparaged for melding science and spirituality but I encourage you to read ?The Phenomenon of Humanity,? a short piece by Wilson describing Teilhard?s prescience and importance.

Below you can read an excerpt from Wilson?s essay, followed by a snippet from the transcript of my conversation with Tippett on how my awareness of Teilhard?s ideas emerged in 1992 and again in 2002, as I dug into the ideas of his intellectual contemporary and indirect partner, the Russian earth scientist and chemist Vladimir Vernadsky, who in the 1920s (just as an example) wrote:

Mankind?s power is connected not with its matter but with its brain, its thoughts and its works, guided by its mind. In the geological history of the biosphere, a great future is opened to Man if he realizes it and does not direct his mind and work to self-destruction.

Here?s Wilson on Teilhard?s prescience, and one mistake:

Teilhard wrote that humans are both a biological species and a new evolutionary process. As a biological species, we are little different from our primate cousins, and there was no divine spark in our origin (this did not play well with the Catholic Church!). As a new evolutionary process, however, our origin was almost as momentous as the origin of life. Teilhard called the human-created world the noosphere, which slowly spread like a skin over the planet, like the biological skin (the biosphere) that preceded it. He imagined ?grains of thought? coalescing at ever-larger scales until they became a single global consciousness that he called the Omega Point?.

Only during the last decade have evolutionists begun to realize that we are an ultra-social primate species and that this accounts for virtually all of the differences that set us apart from our primate cousins. Mechanisms evolved in our ancestors that suppressed the ability of individuals to succeed at the expense of members of their own group, causing succeeding as a group to become the primary evolutionary force. We are designed to be team players in ways that penetrate so deeply into our subconscious that we are only beginning to understand the proximate mechanisms, even though we play them out every moment of our lives?.

Becoming an ultra-social species at the planetary scale?another kind of Omega Point?will be much more difficult, although theoretically possible. The first step is for everyone to realize that it will not happen spontaneously. Insofar as Teilhard portrayed the Omega Point as inevitable, that is the biggest thing that he got wrong. Dozens of contemporary theorists speculate about the global brain emerging spontaneously from the Internet, as if complexity and inter-connectivity are the only necessary ingredients. That?s wrong, and the sooner we reach a consensus on this point the better. Multi-level selection states very clearly that adaptation at level X requires a process of selection at that level and tends to be undermined by selection at lower levels. We can?t expect natural selection to operate at the scales required to solve our largest and most recalcitrant problems, so the only alternative is policy selection. Call it social engineering or stewardship, it is up to us to turn the earth into the super-organism that Teilhard had in mind. We will not succeed without a sophisticated knowledge of our species as a product of genetic evolution and a process of evolution in our own right.

I couldn?t agree more that this will only happen through conscious choices and efforts.

I encourage you to listen to the full show, which has a fluidity and tone that I think you?ll like. It?s kind of the radio equivalent of a ?long read.? For those who prefer text, here?s a ?teaser? of sorts from my chat with Tippett:

Tippett:? [I]t?s not inevitable that this technology drives towards this kind of coherence?. [Y]ou talk about language like engagement and intentionality. And you?re talking about our relationship with our technology and all these things that are becoming possible?

Revkin:?Sure. I teach a course at Pace University that I launched last year ?this is the second year ? in blogging. And it?s really not a course just in blogging; it?s a course in how to get the most out of the Internet, how to get the most out of all this connectivity. This is all about intentionality. In fact, it?s not a course ? the course is called Blogging a Better Planet, but I don?t define better planet.

I ask them to take their own passions and find some little ? in other words, there might be a student who?s interested in fashion or another in music, which is the case this year. Another one in travel. And I say find the component of the thing that excites you that also fits in this frame of smoothing our journey.

So if you don?t have intentionality, you could go out there and just sell widgets. The Internet is really good at selling widgets. And as I say, you know, the Internet helped the 9/11 organizers learn where to find their flight schools and stuff. So it can work in terrible ways as well. But I see the upside swamping the downside, especially if young people early on are trained ? not trained, but learn on their own ? how this can work for betterment.

Here?s a link to the full program transcript.

If you seek even more depth, here are links to the unedited audio recordings of the conversations:

Source: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/exploring-the-roots-of-an-emerging-planet-spanning-mind/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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