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Films For Creative Types
Artists often work alone. While isolation naturally draws introverted personalities into the richness of their inner life, it can also leave creatives feeling confused about their progress and place in […]
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Learn to Sail LA’s Official Tall Ships (For Free!)
My love of tall ships goes back a ways, but given my recent research dive into the great tea races, it’s taken on an outsized portion of my attention lately. […]
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Roughly 5,280 Reasons America Should Have Gone Metric A Long Time Ago
Defining Our Terms: Metric vs. Ye Olde English If you’ve been to elementary school in the United States, you’ve encountered the metric system. As you’ll remember, it’s a system based […]
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Re: Philanthropy, Thoreau Got It Wrong
Dear Henry, I’ve recently read your book Walden and would like to share my observations with you, if that’s alright. I’m sorry to hear that your cabin was […]
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20 Podcasts I Think You Might Like
I’m a big NPR nerd. No question. Have been for a while. (Yes, I realize that “NPR nerd” is redundant.) NPR-listening, as with all gateway drugs, inevitably led me into […]
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Why I’m Running the LA Marathon (Again)
This will be my fourth time to run a half or full marathon to raise money for clean water projects in Africa. The distance doesn’t intimidate me as much as […]
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Thoughts On Serial Season 1: A Podcast Post Mortem
The first season of Serial is the most popular podcast of all time. With over five million downloads, it far outpaces anything that’s come before it. People attribute the show’s […]
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A Dispatch to the Future: Horses, Robots, & The End of the World
What I am writing in this post has already become irrelevant. Writers have an uneasy relationship with time. They often aren’t appreciated until they cross their arms and lay down in […]
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Then, Who Won the Space Race?
My last post on why “America Did Not Win The Space Race” ruffled some feathers on Reddit and Twitter. So before I go further let me put a few things […]
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America Did Not Win The Space Race
I love space. The untamedness of it. The danger. It is the definition of bigness. It lends us perspective and can make us afraid. It is the final frontier. Actually… […]
