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." To welcome in 2018, here is some our best advice from this year for doing things better, whether...
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 Dimitrijevic offers up "50 New Year's Resolution Ideas And How To Achieve Each of Them." The New Year is slowly...
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: genetic testing. Genetic testing was a highly publicized gift idea....
[caption id="attachment_71514" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Mt. Cook from Lake Pukaki[/caption] 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 The late fall buff landscape that greeted us on our return has finally been replaced by a coat of white, and I can now take...
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. Cuddy's TED Talk is the second-most watched in TED’s history, with more than 44 million views. All proceeds will be donated to the...
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 camels. They are gazing across gently rolling hills or dunes of white, to a...
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 provides at least a temporary bridge. [caption id="attachment_71119" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Auckland Art Gallery, "Rock...
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 hot button issue of net neutrality. This week she tackles the massive tax bill passed...
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 our busy schedule – certainly we were not going...
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 that our host-owner Steve Hunter, at the rustic but very comfortable Lake Tekapo Cottages, had...
