Author: Jim Berkowitz

Here are several excerpts from a post by Carolyn Gregoire, a features editor at the Huffington Post, that offers an interesting analysis of The 10 Things Highly Intuitive People Do Differently.  Intuition is challenging to define, despite the huge role it plays in our everyday lives. Steve Jobs...

New York Times writer, Larry Rohter, offers up an exellent article about 89 year old Nat Hentoff, the subject of a new Documentary Film by David L. Lewis. Early in “The Pleasures of Being Out of Step,” a documentary about the writer, critic and record producer...

Beverley Mitchell, a writer for Inhabitat.com introduces us to a new pop-up solar power station that can deliver energy, water and internet connectivity to remote places around the world. Ecosphere Technologies’ latest product combines several of our very favorite things in one easy-to-transport package: shipping containers,...

Author, global nomad, and public speaker, Francis Tapon, has some interesting thoughts on crowdfunding your travels in this guest blog post on Gobackpacking.com: It sounds like an impossible dream: a bunch of people throw money at you so that you can travel around the world. However, it’s...

This bat-mobile style concept car is previewed in an article in The Mind Unleashed and is powered with 10 grams of a radioactive element that will run the car for more than a lifetime. If your car was powered by thorium, you would never need to refuel it. The...

Greg Melville writes in the Outside blog about a little known secret:  "That cabin you’ve always dreamed of? It’s within reach—if you know where to look." You know you've always wanted to buy a cabin high in the mountains. Now's your chance. The best real estate isn't always...

Here are several excerpts from a blog post by consumer advocate, lawyer and author Ralph Nader about the growth of the food safety movement. Let us celebrate today the latest initiatives of our nation's growing food safety movement. Across the country, consumers are demanding the right to...

Here are several excerpts from an article in NPR.com by Robert Krulwich about history debunker, CGP Grey: Here are five stories we tell ourselves — five famous history stories that you have heard all your life — that aren't true. Not only are they not true,...