Looking ahead to the “spiritual, social, and psychological needs” of lunar colonists, Jorge Mañes Rubio, the ESA’s artist in residence, wants to build a temple near the south pole of the moon. Rubio’s vision for a temple entails building a dome on the rim of the 21-km-wide Shackleton Crater. Such an …
Read More »Inside the Most Tricked Out Yoga Studio in New York
Photo by Asi Zeevi It’s no secret that mindful movement is in the future of fitness. From spin to HIIT and yoga, top studios and instructors have incorporated moving meditations into their workouts — or, should we say, experiences. That’s at least what it felt like when I took a …
Read More »Inside Intel’s phenomenal effort to end its use of conflict minerals
We tend to think that large corporations have total, intentional control over their own businesses — local abuses are quite reasonably assumed to derive from pressures from above, to be extensions of the overall corporate culture rather than exceptions to it. But highly complex and, particularly, highly globalized companies often …
Read More »Yemen war: Inside the rebels’ battered stronghold
The war in Yemen between Houthi rebels and allies of the ousted government has had devastating consequences for a country which was already the poorest in the region. BBC Arabic’s Nawal al-Maghafi is one of the first journalists to report from the rebel stronghold of Saada, in the north – …
Read More »Inside Lisbon’s Incredible Mercado da Ribiera
I have seen heaven, and it is a food market in Lisbon. Imagine: a vast cafeteria, the size of a football field, serving up nothing but unique local food items at affordable prices. Imagine most of the vendors here speak English, for ease of ordering, and you can just wander …
Read More »Inside Santiago’s Fiestas Pátrias
Classes were wrapping up on a Friday morning in mid-September, and my Brazilian Portuguese teacher casually mentioned we wouldn’t be having class the following Thursday or Friday. Before I could bat an eyelash, I found myself perusing plane tickets, buying one from Rio to Santiago, Chile and frantically packing my …
Read More »Healthy Chocolate Flax Crackers… And A Sneak Peek Inside the Healthier Chocolate Treats eCookbook!
Healthy Chocolate Flax Crackers ? — crunchy, chocolatey, and slightly sweet crackers that’ll satisfy the snack monster that lives in all of us. Who needs storebought crackers when you can make these simple 5-ingredient squares of goodness? ?? Storebought crackers are generally never 100% whole grain… they usually cheat and say they’re whole …
Read More »How This Mom of Five Got Stronger, Inside and Out
Get inspired by these DailyBurn success stories, which showcase real people who committed to fitness and saw results that were way beyond average. It wasn’t until after she’d overcome an eating disorder, become a mother to five children, divorced, moved cross-country and remarried that Nancy Berry Idoni got to a …
Read More »Inside the Brain of 93-Year-Old Athlete Olga Kotelko
Photo: YouTube When you think about track and field athletes, you might envision young, muscled (and highly decorated) competitors like Usain Bolt or Lolo Jones. That is, until you learn about the legendary Olga Kotelko, who passed away in 2014. The former teacher and mother of two was a record-holding …
Read More »There’s an Intel modem and an extremely skinny A10 chip inside the iPhone 7
While the rest of the iPhone obsessed world was getting ready to stand in line or just impatiently waiting for their pre-order to arrive, the teams at iFixit and Chipworks were sharpening their tools like underfed lumberjacks sitting down to a steak dinner. Both sites offered liveblogs of their iPhone …
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