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Be Happy, Don’t Hurry.
New research highlights the links between busy lives and bliss. Turns out that the happiest people in the country are more likely to report themselves both as less rushed and with no excess time....
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Grains Of Sand Versus Stars In The Sky
Robert Krulwich solves the eternal quandry with help from David Blatner’s book, Spectrums: Our Mind-Boggling Universe, from Infinitesmal to Infinity: (Photo: Blue Straggler Stars in...
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Me, My Hair, And I
Thrilled to be among this group. For anyone who has wrestled with their hair (and who among us hasn’t?) buy this book. “Women show their roots in ‘Me, My Hair, and I.’” —Vanity Fair “[T]hese...
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One Question for Maira Kalman
Maira Kalman has worked as a designer, author, illustrator and artist for more than thirty years without formal training. Her work is a narrative journal of her life and all its absurdities. She has...
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The Rudeness Epidemic
This post originally appeared on The Harvard Business Review. When his three-hour board interview ended with an offer to join the executives for a beer, 35-year-old Martin* figured he’d nailed the job....
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SETH GODIN writes books about the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting, leadership and most of all, challenging conventional wisdom. With The Thanksgiving Reader, Seth...
View ArticleFly Through 17th Century London
If the holidays make you feel like time traveling, this piece in the Londonist by Matt Brown will satisfy that itch. “A group of students at De Montfort University created this fly-through of 17th...
View ArticleHow A Bach Canon Works
Brilliant. This moving manuscript depicts a single musical sequence played front to back and then back to front. Give the video a little time to unfold. – Courtesy of OpenCulture
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New Healthy Habits: Timing and Persistence Matter
If you are starting the new year with a resolution to get fit, it’s worth remembering that patterning new behavior takes time. A few years ago, at a time in my life when I was feeling particularly...
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Creativity Lessons from Charles Dickens and Steve Jobs
This piece originally appeared in The Harvard Business Review. Creativity is the most essential skill for navigating an increasingly complex world — or so said 1,500 CEOs across 60 countries in a...
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