New Year's resolution

The Teacher Goes Back to School

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

June Update: Choosing the music has been so confusing. After deciding to tackle an entire chronology of the cello, I quickly realized how much work that would be. I decided to take so…

To Dream the Improbable Dream

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Rediscovering My Musical Language Skills

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

How to Compose Psychedelic Earthquakes

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Finding the Theme

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

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700 snippets of wisdom — all drawn by hand

January 21, 2015Arts

Everyone makes New Year’s resolutions. It’s an annual ritual. But some are more ambitious than others: Garman Herigstad’s, for example. Once a special effects artist for movies and TV, Herigstad wants to explore more fully another kind of art — on a rather large canvas.

Asking Others to Make New Year’s Resolutions for You

August 14, 2013

Many people made New Year’s resolutions this weekend, but four out of five will break their resolution, and a third of them will forget their intent entirely by February. While the reasons for not carrying out a resolution are diverse, one proven strategy to successfully following through is having a friend or loved one make […]

The science behind keeping (and breaking) New Year’s resolutions

August 14, 2013Environment

Who hasn’t had a New Year’s resolution fail? The Takeaway’s science contributor Jonah Lehrer joins the show to tell us why our brain actually prevents us from changing everything at once.

New Years resolutions

August 14, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

Fair Game correspondent Ed Herro hits the streets to find out whether Americans are keeping their New Year’s resolutions.

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