David Streitfeld, a New York Times Technology Reporter, offers up some initial impressions on Amazon's new Fire phone, announced yesterday by Amazon CEO, Jeffrey Bezos. Here are several excerpts: Amazon on Wednesday announced a device that tries to fulfill the retailer’s dream of being integrated into...
Single Day and Late Night Tickets for Telluride Blues & Brews on sale as of Friday, June 20, 10 a.m. (MDT)! Single Day and Late Night Tickets for the 21st Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival go on sale this Friday, June 20th at 10:00 a.m. (MDT)....
There's a new trend in New York City; a cross-over between an art exhibit and an educational experience. Marisa Meltzer, writes about a new company named after the writer and art collector Gertrude Stein: On a Saturday afternoon in Chelsea, a group of a few dozen...
Can Beautiful Art Cause Delirium? Watch this video about Stendhal Syndrome from Jason Silva and see for yourself! Stendhal Syndrome: "A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give weight in one's life...
What? Me worry? Well yes. Especially if you are a parent. Most skin and hair care products for kids contain a laundry list of ingredients with strange, often unpronounceable chemical names. In fact, many commonly used in products for children, paragons and quaternium 15 for two examples,...
A new study written about by Olga Khazan in The Atlantic suggests that extroverts, like me, are not meant for long, isolated voyages. Damn, I guess I won't be going to Mars any time soon! Extroverted friends are good for a lot of things—serving as deft and...
Here's a section from an interesting article in the New York Times that was contributed by Bob Morris: On a recent Friday night, a dozen seekers in loosefitting attire, most in their 20s and 30s, climbed a flight of steps of a mixed-used community space in Bushwick,...
Mark DeNicola writes about the importance of creativity over conformity and shares a video (see below) from Jason Silva's Shots of Awe Series. “There is no one map for how to live our lives. Reality is just a word and you’re not supposed to use it...
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years," Mark Twain As day follows...
Last Sunday was Pentecost Sunday – and also our annual Blessing of the Animals. So, with a little help from my dog friend Dinigi (Athabaskan for “Moose"), I preached a sermon that addresses that most important theological question: Do Dogs Go to Heaven? [caption id="attachment_12347" align="aligncenter"...
