From Outside Magazine: "Fishing guides and festival goers take note: High-end cooler maker Yeti just revealed its first soft-sided cooler, the 5.2-gallon Hopper that’s sealed with a waterproof drysuit zipper." It’s got an inch-and-a-half of heavy-duty closed-cell foam for insulation throughout. We had no problem slinging...
New York Times best-selling author and National Geographic Fellow, Dan Buettner, has delivered more then 3,000 speeches to audiences world wide and his TED Talk How to live to be 100 has been viewed over 2 million times. Here are several excerpts from an article that Dan wrote about...
Here’s an excerpt from an informative article by Dr. Amy Shah, M.D. about the 10 rules that healthy people (experts, trainers, doctors and celebrities) allow themselves to break while staying incredibly healthy. This is an actual tweet I read from a reputable health site recently: "No sweets,...
The Playlist staff has compiled a list of 50 new films that may appear in this Fall's film festival circuit, including the Telluride Film Festival (TIFF). In addition to a synopsis of each film, the likelihood of the film being shown at a film festival...
I came across a press release about "What Are You Waiting For?" author Kristen Moeller joining the Tiny House movement and being the guest on the premier of the new A+E show, Tiny House Nation. Here are several excerpts from the press release. Tiny House Nation,...
Here are several excerpts from an article by Michael Forrester, a spiritual counselor and practicing motivational speaker, about recent research on energy transference between plants. A biological research team at Bielefeld University has made a groundbreaking discovery showing that plants can draw an alternative source of...
Kenneth Chang, a science reporter for The New York Times, has written about the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 Satellite that is Launching on Tuesday Morning. Here are several excerpts: On an average day, some 100 million tons of carbon dioxide is liberated from oil and coal by...
Throwing a 4th of July bash? Here are several excerpts from an article in the Food Network's Healthy Eats Blog by Abigail Libers who notes: "You’ll likely be faced with a barrage of requests from friends who are gluten-free, dairy-free, meat-free — you name it....
Here are several excerpts from an article (including a podcast) by Sasha Khokha, the California Report Central Valley Bureau Chief at KQED in San Francisco, about Yosemite Park turning 150: Yosemite National Park, in California's Sierra Nevada, is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the law that...
I don't watch TV, but if I did, I'd watch "Shark Week" on the Discovery Channel. As Brian Koerner notes in his Mashable article: "We don't like to use the word 'epic' often, but the commercial features a chum-tossing, shirtless man leading a swarm of sea...
