Culture

"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...

“What makes Adam Neiman a genuine rarity is that he plays with imagination and authority, not just an extra helping of technique. He was clearly born to be a pianist and is carrying out a destiny written in his genes,” Chicago Tribune Like the Telluride Playwrights...

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...

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...

One-of-a-kind youth art camps and classes at the Ah Haa School. Summer Art Classes for ages 4 and up Although summer is the season for family vacations and adventures, it is often hard to humor every member of the tight circle. Telluride’s festivals and fourteeners represent some great...

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...

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,...