For the athletically minded, Active.com presents a nice primer on the fundamentals of nutrition for proper energy during workouts. Sometimes we forget that proper nutrition isn’t just for serious professional athletes. Worth a read if you hit the gym, the bike, hiking trails, the pool, etc. >> Link: How to Fuel for Your Workout
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Or: “29 Things to Buy or Do (So You Don’t Have to Call Your Parents) When You’re Sick” The by-line of this article from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston says it all. A creative, spunky, and totally useful list of information for taking care of yourself. Print it out, hit the
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Headlines from today’s L.A. Times include the story of mummified remains of two babies found in a trunk in the basement of an apartment complex in mid-city. Grim–yet also fascinating, considering the remains are perhaps 80 years old. They were found along with newspapers from the 1930s and a ticket to the 1932 Olympic Games
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For those of you in LA/visiting LA soon, I highly recommend checking out the Arshile Gorky retrospective at MOCA (the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art). The museum has put together a great collection of beautiful and compelling pieces. Until I visited, I’d only been roughly familiar with Gorky’s work–the color, the amorphous shapes, and
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Having just finished “Other Colors: Essays and a Story,” a collection of essays by Nobel Prize recipient Orhan Pamuk, it seems like a good time to recommend his work. Pamuk, who lives and works in Istanbul, features Turkey and his home city prominently in his writing. While many of his stories are very much about Turkey,
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Today on All Things Considered, a conversation about the future of journalism–and a topic that really interests me: why hasn’t online aggregation caught up with the stylish design of magazines? >> Link: Mike McCue: Flipboard Brings Beauty Of Print Onto The Web : NPR
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We’ve all been there: trying to come up with a great idea, or write a beautiful passage, or finish a project. And it seems that our brains cough up nothing but hot, dry air. The good folks at BBC put together a nice look at how great artists–especially musicians–dealt with their creative block. In this
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I’m glad to see a featured discussion on the New York Times online that poses this important question: Why do new college textbooks cost so much? Certainly I remember semesters in college where my textbook bill would reach $500. It wasn’t uncommon for one book to cost more than $100 (especially for the big, bulky
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NPR’s Morning Edition concluded a series on the European Union this morning with a fantastic overview of the challenges facing the future of the EU: financial, political, and–most importantly–cultural. I found Rob Gifford’s piece the most digestible, concise, and on-point summary of the issue I’ve heard in the media. >> Listen to piece, and read
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LA Magazine presents a great chart for finding free museum activities any day of the week! LA Museum Free Days Thanks to The Getty’s “Visit” page for this useful link!
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