7 Aug,2021 | Brain Pickings, Personal Development
From the rudiments of consciousness to the redemptions of conservation, with a side of existential reckoning. “Obviously, if you don’t love life, you can’t enjoy an oyster,” Eleanor Clark wrote in the book that won her the National Book Award, published...
3 May,2021 | Brain Pickings, Personal Development
On May 3, 1921, John J. Fitz Gerald — a sports journalist for the New York Morning Telegraph reporting on the horse-racing circuit — suddenly began referring to results from New York City as news from “the big apple.” He soon titled his entire column “Around the Big...
20 Nov,2020 | Happy, Positive Outlooks
Humans of New York I was raised by my grandmother. And any little thing could trigger her. One time I got mad and told her: ‘You’re not my mom.’ I was only six years old. But she put me on an airplane to go live with my mother for a month, who I didn’t even know. My...
19 Aug,2020 | Black Enterprise Magazine, Business
After hitting two young Black boys in a hit-and-run incident, a 31-year-old white woman from Long Island, NY, was arrested after leaving the two boys hospitalized with serious injuries, according to Newsday. Suffolk County police stated that Major Case Unit detectives...
15 Aug,2020 | Business, The Guardian
Brands and restaurants have decided the city’s sky-high rents are just too expensive for them‘It’s the worst I’ve seen’: London’s West End struggles to bounce backOn a damp and humid Thursday afternoon Manhattan’s Union Square is looking sorry for itself. There’s...
