Storytelling and the Collective Mind

Storytelling is a human universal, and common themes appear in tales throughout history and all over the the world. These characteristics of stories, and our natural affinity toward them, reveal clues about our evolutionary history and the roots of emotion and empathy in the mind. By studying narrative’s power to influence beliefs, researchers are discovering how we analyze information and accept new ideas. More at SciAm.com

Rappin' about CERN's Large Hadron Collider!

I bet you were wondering when physicists would be able to discover the secret of forces behind the dark matter that holds our universe together. That is exactly the plan guiding the massive particle acceleraotor built beneath the countries of France and Switzerland. Forunately, its purpose has now been revealed to us in the lingua franca of our times: a hip-hop video!

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Zen Habits: The Many Paths to Simplicity

“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.” - Henry David Thoreau

ZenHabits.net is a very personal blog by Leo Babauta. Somehow, married with six kids, this writer, runner and vegetarian models of honesty and serenity, as well as provides a trove of simplicity hacks.

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Air Pirate: Arrr! The Oxymoron That Is Radio Cartooning

Mo Willems has wanted to be a radio cartoonist since he can remember. Lots of cartoonists, he said, want to make it to print publications. But inspired by New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who read comics on the radio in the '40s, Willems wants to take his art to the airwaves.

From All Things Considered, September 4, 2008 ·