Find A Spark | Ideas to inspire

A screenshot from South Park, advertising the documentary 6 Days to Air

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6 Days to Air

The cover of the DVD for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, the 2014 follow-up to Carl Sagan's original series on the Universe

TV Series

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

The cover of the DVD for The Animatrix, a set of short films detailing the back story to The Matrix

Film

The Animatrix

The cover of the Plastic Pollution Primer and Action Toolkit, a free resource from the Earth Day Network

Book

Plastic Pollution Primer and Action Toolkit

A train track, with trees and sunset in the background - a possible inspiration location

Blog Post

My Inspiration Location

The cover of Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan

Book

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

An infographic showing the fight or flight response, the body's response to stress

Infographic

The Fight or Flight Response

The cover of the book You Can Learn to Remember by Dominic O’Brien

Book

You Can Learn to Remember

Man with big hair and sunglasses, with lots of enthusiasm

Blog Post

How to avoid killing your enthusiasm

A screen grab from the Refugee Project interactive map of refugee migration from 1975 to 2015

Website

The Refugee Project

A panorama of Railay's east beach

Blog Post

Life can’t always be planned

Scrabble pieces spelling out the word 'anxiety'

Blog Post

Accepting anxiety — it helps.

Emily Balcetis presenting her TED talk on why some people find exercise harder than others

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Why some people find exercise harder than others

The cover of the DVD for Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, the film of Pink Floyd's 1971 show at the ancient amphitheatre in Pompeii.

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Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii

The home of the Dervaes family — they manage to grow all the food they need on 1/10 of an acre, using urban agroecology

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Urban Agroecology

The cover of the DVD of Lost in Translation, the Sofia Coppola-directed film starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson

Film

Lost in Translation

Two doughnuts, of the jam-filled variety, representing one way to look at efficiency

Blog Post

Learn to trust yourself with doughnuts

A family tree showing how closely related George V, Wilhelm II and Nicholas II were.

Blog Post

World War One — a family affair.

The cover of The Way of Zen by Alan Watts, an introduction to Zen Buddhism

Book

The Way of Zen

An open study book, laying on a table with pencil on top and notes to the right

Blog Post

4 insights on learning from Josh Waitzkin