New Year's resolution

The Teacher Goes Back to School

Arts, 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

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Rediscovering My Musical Language Skills

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How to Compose Psychedelic Earthquakes

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Finding the Theme

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Garman Herigstad

700 snippets of wisdom — all drawn by hand

Arts

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

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 World

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

Environment

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.

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New Years resolutions

Arts, Culture & Media

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