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Meaning-making, in all its various aspects, is not only a prime motivating force in human life but also in teaching and learning. We search for personal meanings in our life experiences, which enables us to develop inner capabilities to become self-empowered, self-determining authors of our own life stories. In short, meaning-making expands human consciousness and MCE-MCL extends this explorative and explanatory domain. As students become engaged in a diverse set of personally and socially meaningful activities, they learn to assess what they learned with responsibility to self, to others, and to the local and world communities. Thus, MCE-MCL is holistic, dialogic, and experiential in nature, collaborative and transformative in process and purpose.

"For Musk, going to Mars is way more than just cool. "Are we on a path to becoming a multiplanet species or not?" he has asked. "If we're not, well, that's not a very bright future. We'll simply be hanging out on Earth until some eventual calamity claims us." Impey makes much the same point. "Humankind evolved over millions of years," he observes. "But over the last 60 years, atomic weaponry created the potential to extinguish ourselves. Sooner or later we must expand beyond this blue and green ball, or go extinct." So does Petranek. "There are real threats to the continuation of the human race on Earth, including our failure to save the home planet from ecological destruction and the possibility of nuclear war," he writes. "The first humans who emigrate to Mars are our best hope for the survival of our species.""

see section on "dunbar's number and beyond" "More than 60 per cent of our social time is devoted to our five closest friends, with decreasing amounts given over to those in the layers beyond"

HSD tools help you cope with those patterns when: Resources are tight and demand is high Your old tools and techniques fall short Players are many, diverse, or constantly changing Culture and/or organizational habits are obsolete Too much or too little control makes people crazy There are so many moving parts you don't know where to start

"Joe Griffin explains why dreaming and forgetting our dreams, fulfils a vital human need." 'dreaming is predominantly about bringing down emotional arousal and removing failed expectations and forgetting them="the elimination of emotional expectations theory".'

"We still need more tool-building but there is much benefit in putting the remarkable tools we now have to work. So we will have a better understanding of both animal model brains, but to me very importantly, the human brain that makes discoveries relevant to disease actionable. And also advances basic neuroscience. We've been focusing on brain disease but in the end basic science is the well from which everything comes, and we should not forget it. But that said, understanding all the different cells, understanding how they're wired together, understanding the language of neurons - that is, when they fire, what are they saying to each other? Understanding how this information integrates. Understanding how activity spreads in the brain and how it's decoded is much more than a 10-year project. But I think a focused push like this could lead to a platform of ideas, of tools, of testable hypotheses, of new observations, that could power both basic neuroscience and translational neuroscience interested in disease and therapeutics."

"what matters most in life: human connection and following your dreams, no excuses"

evidence of a general collective intelligence factor that explains a group's performance on a wide variety of tasks. This "c factor" is not strongly correlated with the average or maximum individual intelligence of group members but is correlated with the average social sensitivity of group members, the equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking, and the proportion of females in the group.

"Misunderstanding in cognitive brain imaging"