Aviv Hadar

From Shaun Ellis’ Biography

Ellis is determined to keep living with wolves. It has cost him his family and home — his partner and four children left him because of his total dedication to wolves. But he truly believes he can make a difference.

Read More…

I wanted to setup a place to share my thoughts. Twitter doesn’t give me enough “oomph” and I usually ramble about Apple, Google and other tech stuff there. Every once in a while, I try and write down something I’d want my (non-existent) children to hear. Avha.me is where I will (attempt) to save these thoughts.

As you may have seen with my entry about Tarsiers, I have become rather interested in unique creatures that somewhat scare the shit out of me. What you see below is a Giant Japanese Hornet, and from the looks of things, you never want to meet one.

These hornets live right outside Tokyo, can fly upwards of 50 miles a day, and presumably kill around 40 people each year.

Image Credit to Muenster

Read More…

The economy is throwing numbers at the public that are just nearly impossible to understand. How can we as a people judge one economic stimulus plan versus another if we cannot determine the difference between 1 trillion and 3 trillion dollars?

The video below is called The Crisis of Credit: Visualized. It attempts to depict the economic meltdown through a nicely done animation. Until the government figures out how to effectively communicate to the masses, maybe they should turn to creative mediums.

“The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated.” Crisis of Credit is a nice project by Jonathan Jarvis. Thanx to my buddy Casey for pointing me to this.

Meet the Tarsier, a primate which has been around for nearly 45 million years. They have the longest continuous fossil record of any primate. But because, ya know, all of us, they are relatively bound to islands off of Southeast Asia.

What’s really interesting is that Read More…

New Years is fun. It’s a time when people feel like they can start over, or if they’re doing great, keep it going for another magical year. Resolutions are something that have become synonymous with celebrating the new year… Here are mine.

• Eat yogurt every single morning with coffee
• Eat at a restaurant of different ethnicity every week
• Yoga stretches before bed, not just in the morning
• Consciously practice patience until it becomes natural
• Start working on that six pack (for real)
• Budget my money better
• Stay in contact with people that are important to me
• Build out a more diverse and global business network
• Double the traffic on my main websites
• Scout a new office

Whether you have new years resolutions or not, it’s important to take this chance and reflect on your life. Look back on the last year, think about everything that has happened to you. Were you in control of it? Could it have been better? Would changing something within your core mentality change your outlook on life? Make it more positive? Increase your patience? If you think anything can be done to improve your overall well-being, boost your happiness and feed your soul… Just do it.