We need to be the meme we want to see in the world – a  cultural force for compassion and kindness as an intractable way of life.  Here you’ll find some of my favorite resources for thoughtful living.

Websites

• Brainpickings – an Inventoryof the Meaningful Life
• Citizen Science Alliance – Citizens helping further science knowledge
• Good – Live Well, Do Good
• Instructables – Share what you Make
• Open Culture-  The best free cultural & educational media on the web
• Shareable – an online magazine about the sharing culture
• Teaching Tolerance – A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center

Tools

• Code for America – transforming government from the inside out
• Community Tool Box – Resources to change the world
• FactCheck.org – a Project of the Annenberg Policy Center
• GovTrack – providing  free research, tracking, and analytics on daily activities of US Congress
• Open Learn – the home of free learning from the Open University
• Politifact  – Fact-checking US politics
• SciStarter – Science we do together
• Snopes.com – Rumor has it
• Your Logical Fallacy is –  a website to help you identify and call out dodgy logic wherever it may raise its ugly, incoherent head

Libraries

• Public Library of Science