People are amazing!

[aroraborealis]

What's something you've seen recently that has made you say, "People are amazing!" (in a good way)?

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[gentlescholar.livejournal.com]

South Station.

The first time I walked in, I spent a minute in awe, that squabbling,
dumb, pigheaded, selfish humans could cooperate well enough to make
something so big, functional, and beautiful.

Wednesday I was impressed again because I found parts of the station I had
never seen before, and it's still a good design.

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

Other people's babies.

They're amazing!

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

INCREDIBLE COSMIC POWER! itty-bitty living space.

[dreams-of-wings.livejournal.com]

I was just in Portland, Oregon, visiting some "family" and that place is just full of things that makes me think people are amazing. Some of them are localized to my group of friends, like the fact that everybody gives each other the code to the keypads on their doors, so you always have a place to go if you need to get away from home or see a friend or whatever and you don't have to worry about keys, or the fact that my friends live in a house called "monster Palace" and they're in the process of building enormous papier-mâché dinosaurs to put on their front porch. Some things are more general to the city, like the existence of Powell's bookstore and also the incredible gardens you see everywhere. And some things are just totally unique to Portland, like the existence of the Sprockettes, a girl dance team in black and bright pink who do tricks with bicycles in the routines.

[yagagriswold.livejournal.com]

I sent someone a thank you for work well done, and they sent me a thank you for my thank you!

[veek.livejournal.com]

Just this morning, the article about the 13yo's solar power breakthrough (http://inhabitat.com/13-year-old-makes-solar-power-breakthrough-by-harnessing-the-fibonacci-sequence/) totally did that for me.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

This video, which I rewatch periodically because it always makes me tear up with awesomeness:

[catness.livejournal.com]

That is indeed pretty awesome.

[youvebeenpixied.livejournal.com]

That one makes me clap every time :)

[catness.livejournal.com]

Space shuttle launch. Hands down, the most amazing thing I have ever seen, and I was 6 miles away. I can't get over it.

"Sometimes, people do amazing things."

[ceo]

This article in the current National Geographic about an elephant orphanage in Kenya.

[primal-pastry.livejournal.com]

E and I went by Guru for dinner the other night. When we got there, it was well before the normal closing but the owner and his family were all outside eating together. We tried to sneak away but the owner saw us and jumped up, shook our hands, and apologized for not being able to invite us to eat with them. And then, he asked us to wait, got some food from the kitchen, and sent us off with it with more smiles, blessings, and good will.

[ceo]

The owner of Guru is the nicest person ever.

Two things!

[bryttan.livejournal.com]

Last week, one of my cow orders gave me a lovely burned wood plate engraved with a motorcycle & motorcyclist and my name (he has a CNC rig in his kitchen and he made it for me!!!).
Earlier this week, one of our new grad students arrived early and brought me a set of earrings from Brazil for helping her out during the Visit Weekend in March.

[mrf-arch.livejournal.com]

This xkcd: http://www.xkcd.com/938/
Which leads to this underlying NEJM article: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1103849#t=article

Not bad, considering that the structure of DNA itself wasn't even known until 1953.