One of the hallmarks of a community that maintains sustainable stewardship practices is that the community is made up of a higher than average number of individuals who make conscious rational decisions. Community stewardship is thus advanced when members of the community become conscious of their innate Fixed Action Patterns, or FAPs. Fixed action patterns are those patterns which [...]
Dr. John and Dr. Patty Storlie recently received word that they were officially accepted into the Harvard Personal Genome Project, which means that their genomes will be completely sequenced, a $20,000 value, for free. “This not only is an exciting opportunity for us, but it will increase the value of all those genetic results already [...]
Envisioning an Interactive, Personalized Heritage Center About a year ago, Giants of the Earth Heritage Center purchased the Historic Ballard House for use as the Heritage Center. The renovation of the Ballard House into the Heritage Center took part in several phases. Phase 1 involved primarily preparing the main room for the visit of the [...]
Norwegian linguistic professors will visit Spring Grove to study the evolution of the Norwegian language within our community.
Giants of the Earth Heritage Center will have a table displaying some of the results of its genetic genealogy during Nordic Fest 2010. The Giants table will be located at the famous Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum. Dr. Johnathan Storlie will be present at the table on Friday( July 23) from 9:30 to 5:00 and on Saturday (July 24) afternoon to share information regarding the use of [...]
And the winners for the Syttende Mai Giants of the Earth Drawing were—- 3rd Prize–Norwegian Milk chocolate–Saundra Solum of Spring Grove, Minnesota 2nd Prize–Giants of the Earth T-Shirt–Barb Matheson of Spring Grove, Minnesota 1st Prize–Individual Membership ($35 value) to Giants of the Earth–Dr. Myrvin Christopherson of Decorah, Iowa GRAND PRIZE–Giants of the Earth Genetic Genealogy [...]
Giants of the Earth Heritage Center presents special events during Spring Grove Syttende Mai Festivities, May 14-16, 2010 Giants has just taken on the care and preservation of the historic Ballard House Hotel where the Heritage Center will help you with genealogy. Join us Saturday and Sunday as we celebrate this Syttende Mai Fest! Come [...]
Evolution of the Knowledge Worker “Do you believe that the Information/Knowledge Worker Age we’re moving into will outproduce the Industrial Age fifty times? I believe it will. We’re just barely beginning to see it…Nathan Myhrvold, former chief technology officer at Microsoft, puts it this way: ‘The top software developers are more productive than average software [...]
I suggest that we can better understand our ancestors and their stories by trying to understand how they developed and used their 4 intelligences to accomplish their ends: Physical intelligence (PQ) Our ability to maintain and develop our physical fitness. It corresponds to body. Mental intelligence (IQ) Our ability to analyze, reason, think abstractly, use language, visualize, and [...]
Giants is currently working on setting up a media digitization station for members to digitize their VHS, Hi8, digital8, etc videos. We hope to preserve important video for our community and for local families on a large server that we hope to make accessible to our community for genealogical and historical purposes over the internet. Specifically, we [...]
