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	May 13th, 2012 Thank you, Mom: 4 stories of mothers' invaluable gifts Posted about 20 hours ago by The Week to Holy Kaw! 1 Moms give us life and guide our dreams. Four contributors to the radio series This I Believe describe how. AS A CHILD, I did not have the love of my biological mother. Everything in life seemed dark and indifferent to me. I allowed hatred and bitterness to dictate my actions. For 15 years, my life was a fight to survive, and I was a product of these dark emotions that tormented me daily. After 15 years of violence, abuse, and poor decisions, I surrendered my independence to the civil authorities who were in charge of keeping abused children.  . . My mother never acknowledged any difference between her daughters and me, her foster son. I can remember many evenings when she would come home tired from working as a registered nurse at the local hospital. She never failed to cook our supper or get us ready for school the next morning. When we were sick, she never abandoned us. She worked every day to make our lives better. I never witnessed such love and compassion in a person. The way she lived her life before me allowed me to turn away from the bitterness and grudges that made my world so dark. View full story at The Week. Photo: CC by Choh Wa Yeh All the top stories from The Week. 消費 Posted 1 day ago by Koichi Mitsui to s a s u r a u 2 空虚感。 Financial planning in America [infographic] Posted about 20 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! Times have certainly changed from when most working people could look forward to retiring with an adequate pension plan, yet Americans still put off planning for the future despite their best intentions. Via Northwestern Mutual and oBizMedia . Plan ahead with infographics. Japanese tradition goes high-tech with a little help from Panasonic [video] Posted about 16 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! 1 The first Tokyo Hotaru (fireflies) festival was kicked off with a modern take on the country’s tradition of floating candles on the water last weekend when Panasonic let loose 100,000 LED lights on the Sumida River. Though nothing can quite replace the lovely flicker of candles, the display appears quite impressive on video and likely turned quite a few heads as passerby tried to figure out why the river was glowing blue. For the environmentally conscious folks out there, no worries; the lights were scooped up in a giant net once they’d made their journey and were run on solar power. Embedded media -- click here to see it. Full story at Engadget. The bright lights of Tokyo. A universal perspective [interactive graphic] Posted about 15 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! Ever wondered how the size of a dust mite compared to that of a star, or the Eiffel Tower to Pluto? Now you can see, thanks to a fascinating graphic by Cary and Michael Huang called The Scale of the Universe 2. Just click on the image above to explore the world as you’ve never seen it before. Full story at The Scale of the Universe 2. Desktop exploration. Sent by Posterous. Change your email settings or unfollow. Other questions? We'd love to help.