In the above picture, climber Emily Harrington takes the hard way up southern China’s Moon Hill, an arch from the remains of a collapsed cave. Sightseers have an easier option; a paved walkway to a viewpoint beneath the arch, then a dirt path to the...
"Tuesday afternoon's match between the U.S. and Belgium will pit two countries with burgeoning beer scenes — and a shared love of fries." Bill Chappell, an NPR blogger and producer, explores how USA craft beer ranks against the beer made in Belgium: The Americans have the...
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to "glide" above Telluride with Glider Bob? Well, this video may be as close as you can get to that experience without actually doing it. ...
As reported in this article in the New York Times, "the Bloomberg big-soda ban is officially dead." The state’s highest court on Thursday refused to reinstate New York City’s controversial limits on sales of jumbo sugary drinks, exhausting the city’s final appeal and dashing the hopes...
Tasneem Raja, Mother Jones Interactive Editor, writes about alternative scenarios to mega-venture-capitalist Marc Andreesen's vision of the future; one that he says will be a robotic utopia of leisure. Marc Andreessen recently wrote a widely shared post about how robots will change the economy. The Netscape founder turned...
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.“ Mark Twain Maria Popova, a Bulgarian writer and critic living in Brooklyn, New York and best known for one of my favorite blogs, brainpickings.org, offers up a post about something near and dear...
Jake Heppner of Distractify notes: "Our society has come a long way in the past few decades but we've completely forgotten what it's like to be classy. Let's take a lesson from these masters of "old school cool." Click Here to see the other 48 Photos of...
Emma Janzen, a freelance drinks writer and photographer, discovers and reviews her 10 favorite absinthes in this post in the Serious Eats website. Which absinthe should you buy? It depends if you want traditional or new wave...
This week is all about wine and fine food as the 2014 Telluride Wine Festival gears up today for a full weekend of activities. But I couldn't resist sharing the new promo video that I saw floating around the internet for the 33rd Annual Telluride Mushroom...
Here are several excerpts from a Scientific American article by Daniel A. Yudkin and Yaacov Trope about a recent paper that was published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology that argues that different music encourages different frames of mind; it quite literally changes the way...
