Articles in Arts & Entertainment
Wear Sunscreen
The following essay was written by Mary Schmich and published in the Chicago Tribune as a column in 1997. She described it as the commencement speech she would give if she were asked to give …
Saving the Planet!
Two planets meet in outer space.
The first one asks: "How are you?" "Not so well", the second answered "I’ve got the Homo …
What’s Easier? To Change Yourself or the World Around You?
This is based on an ACTUAL ;-) radio conversation between a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier (U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln) and Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995.
Canadians: Please divert your course 15 degrees …
Tell me a Secret!
Have you ever told a stranger something that no one else knows about you?
PostSecret.com offers people a way to let out their raw feelings. It began as a community art project in which Frank Warren …
Bobby McFerrin Hacks Your Brain with Music
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In this fun and entertaining 3 minute performance from the World Science Festival, Bobby McFerrin uses the pentatonic scale and an audience’s expectations to demonstrate neural …
Extreme: Lewis Gordon Pugh swims the North Pole
Lewis Gordon Pugh, the first person to swim at the North Pole, talks about his using extremes to accelerate the conversation about global warming. He talks about his record-breaking swim across the North Pole. He …
