Articles tagged with: storytelling
Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
In this fun and entertaining talk at the University of California recorded shortly before his death, he shares …
Moments of Happiness
Do you remember those moments of real happiness? Think about it for a moment.
I was really happy when…
…when my girlfriend said "I love you" for the first time!
…when I found a lost birdie while cleaning …
The Starfish Story: Make a Difference!
Adapted from The Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley (1907-1977)
Once upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He …
The Story of The Pencil
A boy was watching his grandmother write a letter. At one point he asked:
‘Are you writing a story about what we’ve done? Is it a story about me?’
His grandmother stopped writing her letter and said …
Best of Hans Rosling
Even the most worldly and well-traveled among us will have their perspectives shifted by Hans Rosling. A professor of global health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, his current work focuses on dispelling common myths about the …
The Birth Of Lord Ganesha
From a trip to India I brought a statute of Lord Ganesha, the elephant headed Hindu God and was curious to learn more about this character from the Hindu mythology.
Ganesha is known as the god …
