The alarm clock goes off and what do the majority of us do? Grab our phone and get the day’s updates in email, news and social media. Whether we realize it or not, we’ve just give over our most valuable time to responding to demands and thoughts of others. Even if you’re not a very early […]
Category Archives: Life
Happiness research shows the biggest obstacle to creativity is being too busy
From Vincent Van Gogh on through Kanye West, the figure of the broody, tortured artist looms large in the popular imagination. But research suggests that the key to creativity has little to do with angst. In researching my book The Happiness Track, I found that the biggest breakthrough ideas often come from relaxation. History shows that […]
Delete your Facebook account. No, really.
George Lucas Did Something Incredibly Generous For This Writer in 1977
Jelly Cam is the new Bear Cam
Spring is now fully under way, and as the weather gets warmer, the internet turns to nature cams. At any given time, there are thousands of live nature feeds available on YouTube and other services, but somehow they become more appealing as the snow thaws and the background starts to come alive. Every year, a […]
A Las Vegas nightclub is getting turned into an e-sports arena
Starting in early 2018, the Luxor Hotel will be home to the very first e-sports arena on the Las Vegas Strip. The joint venture between Allied Esports, Esports Arena, and Luxor-owner MGM Resorts International will see an existing 30,000-square-foot nightclub transformed into a multi-level e-sports venue. It will be equipped with all the staples of […]
A Tribute To Carrie Fisher – fresh off Starwars.com blog
The Star Wars Celebration convention is well underway, you can watch the live stream here http://www.starwars.com/. Always classy, Lucas Film has put together a tribute to Carrie Fisher which they just posted. It is the number 1 trending video on Youtube currently. This article originally appeared at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE99le5FBrY.
Disney Parks Imagineers and Lucasfilm Collaborate on Star Wars-Themed Lands
The creative minds from Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Imagineering discuss their unique partnership and share details about the new galactic Star Wars-themed lands being created at Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resorts. To read more, visit the Disney Parks Blog: http://bit.ly/2nNu0nB This article originally appeared at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwKRHbLbjNQ.
Why all world maps are wrong
Making accurate world maps is mathematically impossible. All the maps we studied in school growing up were wrong. Very cool to see the correct land mass sizes of each of the countries around the world. This article originally appeared at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIID5FDi2JQ.
Chinese man proposes marriage with offer of 33-tonne”meteorite’
The price of getting married in China is skyrocketing. This guy spent the price of a house for a rock! Instead of selecting a precious stone to mount on a ring, a man in far western China has proposed to his girlfriend by unveiling a 33-tonne “meteorite” placed in a public square, a news website […]