- “Tummy time” can be for adults, too
. Daily Edition • July 24, 2025 SUPPORTED BY For most 5 year olds, nailing the ABCs is a worthy accomplishment. But Alec Van Khajadourian isn’t most 5 year olds. The youngin is a real-deal piano prodigy and made his debut at New York’s Carnegie Hall earlier this week. Alec is the youngest person to ever perform at the storied venue, but he didn’t show much stage fright, telling the New York Post ahead of the concert, “I can’t wait to get on stage at Carnegie Hall and play for everyone. I’m so…Read more
- Why do we taste bitterness?
Daily Edition • April 12, 2024 SUPPORTED BY When Emmy-nominated actor Tabitha Brown found herself feeling discontented a decade back, she decided to “shake things up” by trying something new every day for 30 days. The experience shifted her perspective, and she wrote about it in a recent book, I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free. Aside from Brown’s anecdotal endorsement, though, sparking joy by breaking your routine is backed by science. As cognitive neuroscientist Tali Sharot told The...
- New geoparks are worth adding to your travel list
Daily Edition • April 11, 2024 SUPPORTED BY It’s National Pet Day, an opportunity to celebrate all the joy our furry friends bring into our lives (and post adorable pictures of them on social media, of course). In honor of the occasion, we have a pet-related story that’s sure to tug at any animal lover’s heartstrings: Mishka, the beloved family dog of the San Diego-based Houmans, ran away from home last summer. After they spent months searching and hoping, though, the terrier mix was found in...
- New regulation will curb pollution — and hopefully cancer
Daily Edition • April 10, 2024 SUPPORTED BY You’ve heard of dystopias and utopias, but what about protopias? A protopia is a positive, realistic vision of the future — the opposite of a dystopia, and a step down from a utopia, which is impossibly idealized. Activist and philanthropist Kathryn Murdoch thinks we need to be seeing more media content demonstrating how we can achieve a better tomorrow, which is why she executive-produced a new PBS show, A Brief History of the Future, that aims to...