[Every week or so, we have started sending out a summary of tidbits from across the ecosystem. They are also archived here.]

Did you know that 800+ pages of content was posted on various ServiceSpace feeds, just in this month of May?!? Lots of activity. And ample opportunities to engage.

In London, these five people are touching something. What is it, you ask? Zilong’s replacement for the “White Dragon”. No word yet on the new name. (For bonus smiles, meet two of our younger volunteers.)

Its graduation season. ServiceSpace tends to attract a lot of valedictorians, but hang on … Boston College researched how many top high school performers go on to change the world, run the world, or impress the world. "The answer seems to be clear: zero." #Ouch :)

Sometimes “last to market” can be advantageous, because you can learn from the mistakes of those in front of you. Indian government has canceled 14-gigawatts of coal-fired power stations in favor of solar. And in place of car ownership, they’re leapfrogging straight to car-sharing. Today there are 170 million cars on Indian streets, and in 10 years, it is expected to drop to 77 million!

Shannon Higgins wrote to us last week. “I have found KindSpring so inspiring and would love to use Smile Cards with my autistic students and student council students to promote working with others and helping others.” Mindy’s been a champion of Smile Cards for a long time. But we recently spotted her spiffing it up: “Let your smile be your shade.” And more Mindy ripples.

Awakin Calls recently crossed 15 thousand RSVP’s for its 280+ calls. (Did you know that it’s on iTunes too?) With Preeta’s laddership in the last year, Awakin Calls is going from strength to strength. Stay tuned for more. :)

You heard about this 16-year-old animal-rights activist who was on Awakin Calls, then DailyGood last week? Our own Mister ONEWorldCitizen adds to that with this video of a super cute girl refusing to eat meat. :)

The cancer death rate has dropped 25 percent since it peaked in 1991. That's 2.1 million fewer deaths between 1991 and 2014. #GoodNews

Just another post-Awakin happy photo. Okay, maybe there was another reason. Thu opened her startup “pitch” with Nimo’s song, and it was her boyfriend first time attending Awakin Circle -- which they soon hope to start in Toronto.

In another part of the planet, S-Cubed: Stillness, Stories and Songs -- an evening that Ashik hosted with Sheetal and Khush and Zilong. Still working to get a hold of the bootleg audio, but here’s the photos.

Robots have made it to the sidewalks of San Francisco. But here’s something that happened without Artificial Intelligence, at Karma Kitchen -- Jane at the Toll Booth.

Speaking of which, next month in Germany, Alfred has invited Nipun to speak on the “Dance between algorithm and intuition.”

Salt Lake City Police got trained in non-violence. And guess what? They haven’t killed anyone since 2015. Gandhi was really onto something. Speaking of which, Gandhi newsletter archives are still pretty #fresh. :)

Live in the moment. Isn’t that what meditation says? Marty Seligman, the father of positive psychology, says the opposite. We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment.

Jaime spent 30 days in meditation recently and here’s a core insight she shared: "Love is practice, not just sensations. Now I know why I need to practice loving kindness. The cushions I make by hand, I realize, are my loving kindness practice and love is priceless so how can they have a price tag? It has to be pay-it-forward. Finally, I've understood this concept."

“The trouble with the internet is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them. ‘Ad-driven systems can only reward attention. They can’t reward the right answer. Consumer-paid systems can. They can reward value.’ said Ev Williams, founder of Twitter.” Just strip away the price tag and he could be talking gift ecology? :)

Infographic: majority of our life is spent sleeping. We socialize more than we work. We commute more than we spend time eating or drinking. We spent more time in churches and temples than serving. And we spent 3 months of our adult lives on the phone.

We know Anuj’s mystical songs, but after a recent Awakin Circle, he shared what inspires him to serve in this community: “Someone once asked a Sufi master, ‘How do we call the beloved amongst us mere mortals? Will we ever see the beauty or experience that bliss?’ The master responded, ‘Go create a village of people who practice unconditional love. When these people will gather in the evening to speak of love, there will be a feast of devotion and compassion. Seeing that, Beloved will come. It’s impossible to resist!”

Speaking of Awakin, the weekly readings have really got quite a translation teams around them. In Spanish, for example, more than 130 readings have been translated -- wonder-woman Maria and her team of 5 have been translating every week for a while now. Hindi’s is all the way up to 311, while Gujarati is catching up with 88. Go Rekha and team!

“Cloud Computing Wins”. That was the headline, but no, it’s not more storage for your iPhone. Cloud Computing is the name of the horse that won Preakness. How is that relevant to ServiceSpace update? #ThingsThatMakeYouGoHmmmmmmm :)

Every month, Service Anchors are asked a different question prior to the team call. Couple months ago, the question was: What is a slow story you’ve experienced? Here’s Maki’s reponse.

On that note, a young man recently asked Nipun about his personal practices. Here’s his response.

David Leal (same guy in this photo with a funny nose!) turned 30 while in Japan. So he, Joserra and Rika took to the streets to give out fruits to strangers. "People were so happy man. There were group hugs (in Japan!!!), music, people expressing kind gestures all the time, opening the door, offering to pay for the things, singing birthday songs for me which others in the restaurant joined in for, even offerings presents (which we re-shared with people in the restaurant), in the street, in the subway, everywhere. It takes courage but people become humble with a quiet disbelief which quickly turns into child like joy which is incredibly contagious and come back to infect the initiator!"

Thousands of interactions happens across our portals everyday. But here’s a first from April Lussier: “I so appreciated the clear language you used for your terms and agreements. I was wondering if it would be possible to get a copy?” #MarkJacobsRocks (What, now, you want to actually read it? Go right ahead.)

Mark Jacobs doesn’t just know law. He knows a thing or two about gift-economy too: We Pay, They Play, So What Is So Gift About That?

Ann Fadiman quote: "I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather fronts, international borders. There are interesting frictions and incongruities in these places, and often, if you stand at the point of tangency, you can see both sides better than if you were in the middle of either one.”

Here’s Nicole in Hawaii: “Last Saturday I spoke with Po (who’s still feeling very ‘enveloped by Grace’). My intention was to capture a story (about the power of 1:1’s) for the Laddership newsletter, and we did but it also ventured into other themes that Laddership holds. Not only was I deeply moved by the call, I even got to experience an immediate ripple. My friend, who had secretly been listening in, understood more by listening to Po than I ever could have explained to him. Sure enough, my friend went out later that day and practiced a random act of kindness for the first time in his 41 years of life and I'm seeing a completely different side to him now. All unexpected.”

[What, you want even more tidbits?  You can check the archives here. Read at your own risk. :)]