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by Daniel Pink (TED) Creative Commons Word Count Tracking by BeeOasis.com I need to make a confession at the outset here. A little over 20 years ago I did something that I regret, something that I’m not particularly proud of, something that, in many ways, I wish no one would ever know, but here I [...]

So for the past year and a half, my team at Push Pop Press and Charlie Melcher and Melcher Media have been working on creating the first feature-length interactive book. It’s called “Our Choice” and the author is Al Gore. It’s the sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth” and it explores all the solutions that will [...]

In this short video clip, Dr. David Hill speaks about liberal arts themes for extensive reading. He makes two basic points. First, when learners learn a language, they can benefit from learning culture, too. And this culture includes the themes of the humanities or liberal arts. Second, learners can more easily learn this information when [...]

On June 2, 2010, President Barack Obama stood on a small stage in the White House. In the audience sat a mix of elite leaders and famous musicians. The President was about to give America’s highest award for popular music to Paul McCartney of the Beatles. The prestigious award was the Gershwin Prize. The Gershwin Prize [...]

Murray Gell-Mann is an American physicist. He received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics. Well, I’m involved in other things besides physics. In fact, mostly now in other things. One thing is distant relationships among human languages. And the professional, historical linguists in the US and in Western Europe mostly try to stay away from any [...]

I am an alcoholic and an addict and I didn’t want to see my children do the same thing. Ozzy Osbourne, heavy metal singer Heavy metal is a style of rock music developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It has roots in the blues and psychedelic rock. But metal music is often much [...]