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Family teepee project: Too many chiefs; not enough Indians
I love my family, for all its weirdness. My aunt plans to live in a teepee in the badlands on the Colorado-Utah border, so of course the family got together to build it. We didn’t know what we were doing, but we had an instruction book and lots of opinions. The canvas fit the tangle [...]
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Story of the week: How to defeat willpower
WNYC’s Radiolab created the most intriguing audio science story I’ve ever heard. Aired this week on NPR’s Morning Edition, two narrators play off each other to lure you through the back story that sets up the report on an astonishing experiment. A marketing professor had a set of subjects memorize a 2-digit number and another [...]
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Filmmaker’s advice for great business storytelling
Filmmaker Peter Guber (Rainman, Batman, The Color Purple) once used storytelling to win Fidel Castro’s support for filming in Havana Harbor. The official application form had been torpedoed, but El Presidente enthusiastically endorsed the project once he heard Guber tell of the harbor’s historic significance and Castro’s responsibility to the world to share that piece of [...]
Can you visualize deforestation?
90 acres of trees are cut down each minute. A striking statement, but what does it mean to me? This video by Maya Lin (creator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial) helped me grasp the enormity of the statistic. The haunting melody by Brian Eno also transfixed me. Others who have blogged/tweeted about this also mention [...]
A five-man team in a six-man league
Driving to work Friday morning, I was pulled into a story that unfolded on Colorado Public Radio. Five Arickaree High School boys talked about the decision they had to make when the school’s tiny student body did not yield enough boys to field a six-man football team. They decided to stick together and play with [...]
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Story of the week: ‘You, your patient, and their story’
“Let me tell you the story of the frantic father and his 2-year-old daughter who was gasping for breath in the middle of the night. The father feared the worst as he rushed with his daughter to The Children’s emergency room.” It was easy to see why Jonathan Browser was chosen by the 39 graduates [...]
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Tell ‘em what you did
While preparing this morning for a staff meeting, I delved into Google Analytics to see how many people had visited our new online magazine site. I was disappointed by the numbers. During the meeting, I decided to put the Analytics on the meeting room monitor and walk people through the steps I took to discover these [...]
Baking a pie and wondering what my grandkids will call me