There is a huge piece of my heart permanently reserved for Mexico. And now these photos of the Hotel Mar Adentro in Cabo San Lucas just made that piece a little bit bigger. Designed by Miguel Angel Aragonés Studio, the Hotel Mar Adentro is a dream come true for the design savvy traveler. Aragonés writes, “The first time I visited this property and took in the desert and the diaphanous, clear water running along a horizontal line in the background, I felt the enormous drive of water under a scorching sun.”
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Brent Lambert
Writer, editor, and founder of FEELguide. I have written over 5,000 articles covering many topics including: travel, design, movies, music, politics, psychology, neuroscience, business, religion and spirituality, philosophy, pop culture, the universe, and so much more. I also work as an illustrator and set designer in the movie industry, and you can see all of my drawings at http://www.unifiedfeel.com.
Your brain creates all the narratives in your life, from fear to loneliness to anxiety, etc. But it’s possible to train your brain through mindfulness to transcend its innate urge to storify everything. Jon Kabat-Zinn, a respected medical researcher and professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, explains what years and years of study have taught us about the taming of the brain.
It’s not quite classifiable as an ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) video, but this 5-minute compilation of cans getting crushed, molten glass getting spiraled, and a cake getting decorated has caught the attention of the folks at both Digg and Esquire who agree it’s the “Most Satisfying Video In The World.”
Dawn M. LaPointe is a photographer based in northern Minnesota who recently captured remarkable footage of what’s known as “ice stacking.” Lapointe writes, “Lake Superior put on a dramatic show with her new ice today. While shooting in Canal Park, I noticed the ice had pulled away from shore and felt the breeze at my back. I anticipated there would be some ice stacking as the massive sheet of ice met the shorelines, so I headed to Brighton Beach. The big lake did not disappoint!”
Years ago when Houston-based sculptor David Adickes visited Mount Rushmore on his return trip home from a road trip to Canada, he was inspired to create a series of 20-foot-tall busts of American presidents. It didn’t take long to get the attention of entrepreneur Everette “Haley Newman III who began purchasing the busts from Adickes in 2000. A few years later in March 2004 Newman opened Presidents Park — a 10-acre sculpture park and indoor museum in Williamsburg, Virginia.
As if they weren’t already lucky enough to be living on Hamilton Island just 50 miles west of the Great Barrier Reef (Google map) — these lucky home owners gets to do it in style as well. Check out this incredible home perched on a Hamilton Island hilltop, designed by the team at Renato D’Ettorre Architects. The home has won no less than three design awards, and you’ll see why in the beautiful photos below.
Light stimulation of brain cells can recover memories in mice with Alzheimer’s disease-like memory loss, according to new research from the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics in Japan. The rescue of memories, which changed both the structure of neurons as well as the behavior of mice, was achieved using optogenetics, a method for manipulating genetically tagged cells with precise bursts of light. This finding suggests that impaired retrieval of memories, rather than poor storage or encoding, may underlie this prominent symptom of early Alzheimer’s disease and points to the synaptic connectivity between memory cells as being crucial for retrieval.