business getaways & experiences
Discovery Retreats blend lifelong learning with unique getaway experiences. Inspired and developed by John Hendricks, the founder of the Discovery Channel, these events provide a gathering place for the incurably curious to mingle with leading visionaries on compelling topics – ranging from curiosity and happiness to the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence and beyond.
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customizable small group adventures
Curiosity Adventures provides guests with an opportunity to explore, learn, and live the magic of Gateway Canyons Resort. This is a place where lifelong learners can indulge their curiosities in an environment rich with recreation, adventure and peacefulness. Curiosity Adventures will offer daily presentations, expert hosts, local excursions, and a variety of self-selected activities designed to ensure that a memorable and meaningful experience.
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luxury accommodations
If you’ve never had the chance to watch the sun rise in a red rock canyon, now is the time. At Gateway Canyons Resort in Western Colorado, each day of your visit begins in golden light as the sun illuminates our towering peaks of granite and sandstone in shades of amber and ochre. Across the canyon floor, sunrise moves silently into our valley, warming each cavern, mantle and peak. There is no better place in the world to awaken with nature. This resort has it all.
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- December 27, 2011by Eileen Marable
Are car designers making cars we want or need?
Do Car Designers Get It?
Are there designers focusing on what we WILL need instead of what we want right now? When we head off to our dream vacation in the future what will take the place of the Griswald Family Truckster? more...
0 comments - November 23, 2011by Neal Mayerson, Ph.D.
Expert Dr. Neal H. Mayerson
What Is Humanity’s Biggest Challenge Today?
Our featured expert Dr. Neal Mayerson shares his perspective on a very though provoking question. Dr. Mayerson is an innovator who is active in the fields of psychology, business, and philanthropy. He helped launch the new scientific field of Positive Psychology by founding the not-for-profit organization, Values In Action (VIA) Institute on Character. Read more...
0 comments - November 09, 2011by Eileen Marable
DNA material from fish activated limb generation in mice
Did Primitive Fish Lend US a Hand?
Evolution just keeps surprising us. Scientists just recently believed they have proven that ancient fish carried the sequences or ”switches” – the instructions if you will that govern the timing and development of certain gene activity – that would tell their later descendants how to grow limbs or digits.
1 comment - October 24, 2011by Eileen Marable
DARPA's 100 Year Starship Initiative
Setting the Bar High for Space Travel
When NASA shuttered the Space Shuttle program earlier this year, for many it seemed like a light had gone out of America’s quest for interstellar exploration. Don’t tell that to the group of astrophysicists, scientists, engineers, students, sci-fi writers and members of the public gathered at the recent DARPA 100 Year Starship Symposium in Orlando. For them, the idea of a journey into deep space is just beginning.
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