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How to Keep Going in Good Times and Bad
[embed]https://youtu.be/NN8ikje6-kY[/embed] Austin Kleon is the author of “Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad.” Despite the immense success of his previous book, “Steal Like an Artist,” Kleon found himself struggling a few years later.He was on the verge of quitting writing...
08 April, 2019
Nile Water Musicians
Musicians from the Nile River Basin perform for water rights awareness...
12 April, 2015
Rebels Renegades and Wild Women of History
"Well-behaved women seldom make history." - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Women throughout history have broken the rules and stepped outside conventional social norms to make history happen. We investigate several women who stand out as the rebels of their time. A Beautiful World is a solutions journalism news program...
28 February, 2018
Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls
Elena Favilli: We didn't want to give children the usual fairy tales. Heather McElhatton: That's Elena Favilli (ELLEN-ah FAH-vee-lee), who wrote Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, with co-author Francesca Cavallo (FRAHN-chess-kah -KAH-vall-oh.) It's not your typical book of fairy tales, these stories are true and...
20 February, 2018
Mozart’s Starling
[embed]https://youtu.be/xCF99unTx80[/embed] Mozart's Starling I'm Heather McElhatton and This is A beautiful World. This week we learn about nature inspiring artistic genius and the beauty of communing with the wild from author Lyanda Lynn Haupt, (LIE-anda Lynn Hoe-pt) and her book 'Mozart's Starling" Haupt: I was fascinated by the...
19 November, 2018
Kevin Kling on the Beauty of Healing
Heather McElhatton: Kevin Kling is an award-winning playwright and storyteller, residing in Minneapolis Minnesota. He was born with a congenital birth defect, his left arm is deformed, it has no wrist or thumb. His right arm was normal, but was completely torn off his body on...
11 September, 2017
LAGI
[embed]https://youtu.be/bXkywv5tJHA[/embed] The Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) brings together artists, architects, scientists, landscape architects, engineers, and others to create renewable energy art. Transcript: Heather McElhatton: I'm Heather McElhatton and this is A Beautiful World. Connie Hedegaard: "When it comes to renewables it's not a question of 'nice to have.'...
11 September, 2016
Ancient Rope Knots
Mark Cook: My name's Mark Cook and I live in the Orkney Islands, a group of islands at the top of Scotland. If you look at a map of the UK, and you go to the top, swim six miles north and there's a bunch...
24 April, 2017
How Art Can Make You Happy
[embed]https://animoto.com/play/PQqSHYQ0XcL1sCgsjWgrZw#[/embed] Why is art magical? How can it make us happy? How Art Can Make You Happy offers the keys to unlocking a rich and rewarding source of joy in life. This easy, breezy handbook by Bridget Watson Payne is full of insight that will help...
07 April, 2017