The mini-sagas have been flowing in — with, uh, varying levels of quality. Here’s a somewhat somber one from reader Jeff Rheinhardt that’s quite good. He calls it “Teens on Break from School”: Teens on break from school. They become one spirit, become one with the speeding car. Roar and rumble to the crest, whine […]
In this month’s edition of “The Trend Desk” on Yahoo! Finance, learn why water is the new oil, atoms are the new bits, and Jajah is the new Skype. (UPDATE: Investor’s Business Daily has a good related story.)
A couple of weeks ago, I signed up receive a free poem each day from the publisher Alfred A. Knopf. The daily email contains the text of the poem. But what’s really great is what accompanies it: a podcast in which some notable writer, or the poet him or herself, reads the poem. Today’s offering
USA Today has a good piece on the growing numbers of homeowners who are going off the grid — abandoning centralized, utility company power to generate their own electricity from the wind and the sun. Maybe it is the “dawn of the hygrid age,” after all.
Recreational genomics. It’s apparently not new, but it’s new to me. Read today’s NY Times story about the wacky ways people are using DNA tests.
Three economists say yes. In a paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, the trio concludes that “complete retirement leads to a 23-29 percent increase in difficulties associated with mobility and daily activities, an eight percent increase in illness conditions, and an 11 percent decline in mental health.” One response — which I’ve been
Wyatt Jackson is a Boston-based hip-hop artist and entrepreneur who’s worked with Warner Brothers Records, BET, and VH1. (That’s his picture to the right.) Last week he read A Whole New Mind. This week he sent me an email saying, “I was so inspired by the book, I wrote and produced a rap song about
Remember mini-sagas? They’re those extremely short stories that were popular in the U.K a few years ago and that turn out to be one of readers’ favorite exercises in A Whole New Mind. Like a traditional story, mini-sagas have a beginning, a middle, and an end. But these tales are tiny — exactly 50 words
Gallup is out today with new numbers showing that just 29 percent of Americans are “satisfied with the way things are going in this country at this time.” That’s rather stunning given that the unemployment rate is under 5 percent. If Democrats can’t win in this kind of environment, the party should disband.
