Sussex, New Brunswick is a town well worth visiting for its covered bridges reminiscent of The Bridges of Madison County, murals, funky shops, military history and the annual fiesta of hot air balloons.
Sheena Iyengar On the Art of Choosing: TED Video
Have you ever had trouble make a choice? Would you ever let someone choose for you? Should you? Sheena Iyengar has studied how we make choices and and how we feel about the choices we make. In this TED video, she provides fascinating insight into how we make the choices that build our lives.
Life As A Human Likes…3
Life As A Human Likes is a weekly feature of fascinating, enlightening, fun or perhaps just odd blogs and websites that enliven the experience of being human. This week, we feature 2 outstanding sites that consistently provide excellent content to their readers and one that just might represent the future of search! Winner, Bloggies 2009 […]
Sailing The Rock
The first thing you notice is the air, scrubbed by a thousand miles of ocean and a hundred miles of evergreen forest. The spruce-scented breeze wafts along the shores of western Newfoundland filling the billowing sails of our tall ship, Concordia, and simultaneously purging our lungs of city smog. Even the tap water in Newfoundland […]
The Lost Dark Art of the Mix Tape
Rob Jones looks back longingly to the days of the mix tape, “an artifact of a bygone age, perhaps. But also a lost art form, a dark art of play/record, pause, and fade.”
David Gallo Shows Underwater Astonishments!
David Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a color-shifting cuttlefish, a perfectly camouflaged octopus, and a Times Square’s worth of neon light displays from fish who live in the blackest depths of the ocean. – From TED.COM A pioneer in ocean exploration, David Gallo is an enthusiastic ambassador between the sea and […]
Completely Useless Mnemonics For Your Daily Life
Mnemonics are weird ways of remembering things that might be essential…or useless…like the Seven deadly sins or the formula for a deadly chemical combination. It all depends.
For the Love of Cheese
“How can one possibly govern a people who make 246 cheeses?” General de Gaulle is supposed to have asked. In few places on earth is cheese as celebrated and revered as it is in France, and one of the highlights is cheese from Pont l’Eveque.
I Miss You, Oscar — and Lena and Ella and Joe and Niels-Henning and…
“I’m pretty sure I was born too late,” writes Ross Lonergan as he recounts his love for jazz greats like Lena Horne, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum, Ella Fitzgerald and other members of the pantheon.
Life As A Human Likes…
Life As A Human Likes is a weekly feature of fascinating, enlightening, fun or just odd blogs and other web gems that enliven the experience of being human. This week, we feature a bit of a mixed bag…something for the dreamers, something for the schemers and something for the …um… wieners.
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