Hafuboti is the work of a self-described “Punk Rock Book Jockey, crafter, ukulele player, do-gooder, TV watcher, pop culture enthusiast, Jim Henson fan, and a lot more.” The site’s creator, Rebecca McCorkindale, is also a Nebraska public librarian. Definitely check her site out. She created […]
Prince gave his final concert at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta on Thursday, April 14. As this article at US magazine says, his performance of Purple Rail “will give you chills.”
You must read the great cover story in the March 2016 Atlantic written by James Fallows. Most Americans believe their country is going to hell, he writes. But after a three-year trip across the country in his single-prop plane, Fallows learned that what has been […]
Frank Lloyd Wright shares his unique perspectives on religion, nature and education in this rare clip from June 1957.
More from Alain de Botton, author of The Consolations of Philosophy and founder of The School of Life: A Guide to Happiness: How Six Great Philosophers Can Change Your Life. Here he talks about how Montaigne can speak to all of us as we feel […]
Bruce Springsteen recently made a surprise visit to the annual Light of Day benefit concert in Asbury Park benefitting Parkinson’s disease. And at 65 he still played until 2 a.m. One of my favorites, Racing in the Street:
Leon Wieseltier writes a wonderfully provocative lead essay in today’s New York Times Book Review: “The discussion of culture is being steadily absorbed into the discussion of business,” Wieseltier writes.” There are “metrics†for phenomena that cannot be metrically measured. Numerical values are assigned to […]
A delightful animated video, exploring what philosophy is for, from Alain de Botton, author of The Consolations of Philosophy and founder of The School of Life (courtesy of Brain Pickings):
The late Philip Seymour Hoffman on happiness: “I would definitely say that pleasure is not happiness.”
The looming retirement of the Baby Boom generation could steer the economy into some pretty rough seas. This story from Five Thirty Eight Economics puts it into some perspective. “All else equal, fewer workers means less economic growth. One way to measure this is a […]