One might credit the tiny house movement with a new minimalist lifestyle, but the Scandinavians have embraced, elevated and perfected the small, sleek essentials for cozy living for millennia. Finland has been settled since the Ice Age, and lived under Swedish and Russian rule at different times until its independence in 1917. The Republic of Finland embraces nearly 120,000 square miles, 2,760 miles of coast line on the Baltic Sea and more than 50,000 islands. Population hovers around 5.6 million.The …
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Artificial Intelligence? Can we really build minds from silicon and code? Well, yes. Machine learning has revolutionized many industries — computer programming, transportation, finance, engineering, and even creative pursuits like interior design …
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There’s dunking yourself in cold water. There’s getting stuck with a bunch of tiny needles. There’s climbing naked into a chamber of liquid nitrogen. There’s succumbing to a deeply meditative state. There’s …
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With modern day luxuries like air conditioning, the internet and streaming services, it can be difficult convincing kids to put their screens away and play outside during a hot summer day. While …
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If it’s morning, most likely fine artist Lisa Acciai (pronounced A-Cee) is in her studio creating 2-minute animal sketches. “I took a class from a fellow pet portrait artist who swore by …
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It all started with senioritis. No, no, not the AARP kind, the kind that plagues graduating high school seniors toward the end of their grade school tenure, when the pencils are dull, …
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Quietly settled along Wysor Road in Draper is a hidden gem — literally. Three years ago and 177 years after the Gold Rush in California, David Stowers opened Appalachian Gem and Gold …
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Many of us could connect a firm foundation in education with a strong figure in our lives – a teacher, mentor, parent or friend. As learning cannot come from within but must …
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In just under 200 years, a series of blades assembled around a cylinder, based on a tool which uniformly cut carpet, has evolved into a superb 4-wheel driving machine with gigantic mowing …
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I got one Christmas card in my life from my late brother-in-law, Owen Nagel. Somewhere in the family grapevine, he apparently learned that I got a horse, if late in life. He …
