8/22 Destination: Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California, USA

12/20 Art: James Turrell at the Guggenheim New York

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Alastair Humphreys – Why Not Start Today? (TED Talk)

Alastair Humphreys’ talk was called Why Not? – Motivation & 5 to 9 Thinking. He describes how thinking “Why not?” led him around the world and subsequently built a career doing the things he loves most: tackling expeditions in the world’s wild places and writing books about them.

World’s Largest Building Opens

Located in Chengdu (population 14 million), capital of Sichuan province in southwestern China, the New Century Global Center is the “largest freestanding building in the world,” Chinese officials say. http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/01/travel/china-largest-building-chengdu/index.html