A Beautiful World

Haemin Sunim is one of the most influential Zen Buddhist teachers and writers in South Korea. He's started a "School for Broken Hearts" in downtown Seoul, where people dealing with depression, cancer, divorce and a wide horizon of other challenges can get free counseling, meditation and community. Read more at www.abeautiful.world

Natural Navigator, Tristan Gooley teaches people how to navigate through the world using only clues found in nature. For more on the story visit:

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Mark Cook lives in the Orkney Islands, just north of Scotland. A Taxi driver by day, he's discovered the ancient art of tying knots and turns recycled garbage form the sea into beautiful museum-quality thump mats. (He finds plenty of rope to recycle while walking remote Orkney beaches with his dog.) Mark may live on an isolated island, but he's joined the global movement to up-cycle ocean debris and help rid our seas of pollution. More at: www.abeautiful.world

Used by Charles Darwin to describe colors in the field, "Werners Nomenclature of Colours" is one of the first color charts ever created. It's a treasure to see the foundation on which our current chaotic color world was built. More at www.abeautiful.world

The best holiday you've never heard of! Galactic Tick Day happens every 1.7 years and celebrates the motion of the planets journey around the Milky Way. Not just Earth, but the solar system is ticking its way around the galaxy.

Mark your calendars and hold on: The next official tick is June 26.

The vast variety of creatures living underwater makes us wonder – is there really such a thing as a fish – or just thousands of animals that are excellent at swimming? Helen Scales, 41, Marine Biologist, investigates the citizens of the sea in her newest book, EYE of the SHOAL: The fishwatcher’s guide to life, the ocean and everything. More at: https://www.abeautiful.world/stories/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-fish/

Eugenia Bone became fascinated with microbes--those life forms that are too small to see without a microscope. Specifically, she wanted to understand the microbes that lived inside other organisms like plants and people. This popular science book takes the layman on a broad survey of the role of microbes in nature and illustrates their importance to the existence of everything: atmosphere, soil, plants, and us. More on the story at www.abeautiful.world

Dame Daphne Sheldrick, Empress of Orphaned Elephants passed away last month in Kenya. She was surrounded by friends and family, including her beloved elephants. After Daphne died, the elephants in the nursery did the did the most amazing thing. Listed to Daphne's daughter, Angela describe what happened. More on the story at www.abeautiful.world

Noah Strycker saw half the birds on earth in one calendar year, hear more about his epic journey and get details about his latest book "Birds of the Photo Ark" at https://www.abeautiful.world/stories/noah-the-bird-nerd/