Happier, Safer, Healthier & Smarter in 2018
In the final newsletter of 2017, the New York Times’ Smarter Living editor Tim Herrera offers advice on “How to Be Happier, Safer, Healthier and Smarter in 2018.”
Beyond Telluride
New Year’s Resolutions: 50 Ideas & How To Achieve Them
T’is the end of the season, the last hurdle of the holiday trifecta that began with Thanksgiving. But other hurdles remain, namely The List. Writing for Lifehack, Ivan Dimit
Think Before You Take 23andMe Test
Ask yourself if you really want to know all that you can know – which is not everything, just looks that way – before you submit to the new black dress of the medical world: ge
TIO NZ: A Visual Wrap-up
We’ve been home from our month in New Zealand for two weeks. The late fall buff landscape that greeted us on our return has finally been replaced by a coat of white, and I ca
TEF: Cuddy on “Presence,” The Palm, 12/28
Harvard social psychologist, bestselling author, and brain injury survivor Dr. Amy Cuddy will speak (for one hour) at Telluride’s Palm Theatre on December 28, 5:30 p.m. Cu
Poets’ Corner: Feela on Star Power, Xmas Star & Beyond
The Star of Bethlehem – often just called the Christmas Star – is a major symbol of the holiday season throughout the world. Picture the silhouettes of three regal men on cam
TIO NZ: Auckland & Waiheke
Florence, Italy is a long way in time and distance from modern-day Auckland, New Zealand, but a unique show up now (through January 2018) at the Auckland Tio o Tamaki Art Gallery p
The Short Version: Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
The point of it all is to break down the headlines, determine why an issue is important, and reveal the best arguments on each side of the story. Recently Cleo Abram explored the
TIO NZ: Flying To Milford Sound
I’ve known a long time that Milford Sound was itself a reason to visit New Zealand. We were going to be close, but I didn’t see that there was enough time to work that in to ou
TIO NZ: Tekapo & Points South
Our planned departure out of Christchurch to Lake Tekapo got delayed until the beginning of Christchurch rush hour, so it was a bit late when we reached our lodging. Late enough t
The Short Version: Net Neutrality
The point of it all is to break down the headlines, determine why an issue is important, and reveal the best arguments on each side of the story. Recently Cleo Abram explored the
TIO NZ: Christchurch, A Story for Thanksgiving
Clint and I will not be doing the Turkey Trot this year, will not be breaking bread or pulling skeletons out of closets around the Thanksgiving table. But still, on November 23rd,
TIO NZ: Nelson, Mapua, Tasman Bay
The focus of the Nelson-Mapua-Tasman Bay leg of our New Zealand adventure was people as much as places and things – including a few Telluride locals. Peeps more than sheeps. And
Myths About College Majors
With the first round of early applications off to college, high school seniors will next feel the pressure to choose a college major. But does making this decision early even matte
TIO NZ: Martinborough to Wellington
In the very first story we posted for this trip, we mentioned how Maori lore describes New Zealand’s North Island as a great fish that got plucked from the sea. Today, the m
TIO NZ: Hawke’s Bay, Napier & Hastings
We now know for sure where Little Bo Peep’s charges got off to. Only several days into New Zealand and there is absolutely no doubt. Sheep salted the landscape, 50 shades of
TIO NZ: North Island, So Far
In Aotearoa, in the Maori’s “land of the long white cloud,” the adventure began for us on New Zealand’s North Island, according to legend, “the fish p
The Short Version: Proposed Tax Cuts
The point of it all is to break down the headlines, determine why an issue is important, and reveal the best arguments on each side of the story. Recently Cleo Abram explored the
Antiquities Act Under Threat
Will our power to protect wilderness be forever destroyed under the Trump Administration? For over one hundred years, the US Antiquities Act has helped to designate gorgeous nation
7 Reasons to Remain Single
Choosing to remain single does not mean choosing to be unromantic. It could be a very evolved choice. We are curating this story from the Huff Post, who curated it from The School
TIO, LA: Skirball Center, Celebrating Diversity
The visit to the Noah’s Ark at the Skirball Cultural Center was an afterthought. After all, the award-winning space was designed as a play area largely for families and kid
TIO LA: Chagall at LA County Museum
The German art critic Karl With, who published a life of Marc Chagall in 1923, began his book with two definitions: “Chagall is Russian” and “Chagall is an easter
Your Sleep & Daylight Savings Time
Daylight savings ends Sunday morning. That means at 1 a.m. it will be midnight. It might also mean your sleep schedule is disrupted. And that means trouble. Writing for the New Yor
Sleep: Night Owls & Early Risers
Turns out there may be strong evolutionary evidence that explains why some people are not early risers. Check out this story by Sarah DiGiulio for her Healthy Living column in the