There’s no better place to celebrate the independence of America than Deep In the Heart of Texas. But it’s not just Texas’ big cities and the Fourth of July that see festivities of epic proportions, echoing the widely known Friday Night Lights expression “Go Big or Go Home.” Full of both national and state pride, grand Texas culture saturates the state year-round. At #ExploreTexas, we’re excited to highlight some of Texas’ hidden treasures!

Dogs work, too. And according to award-winning Therapy Dogs, Inc. tester/observer Barbara Wilson, one of the number one requirements when testing handler-dog partnerships is that the dogs enjoy their jobs. No suit and tie are required, as is common with humans, but Wilson’s eldest therapy dog, Tina, a long-haired Chihuahua, loves wearing her nurses uniform to visit patients at the hospital. However, Tina’s job entails far more than wearing cute outfits and stealing the gaze of nearby humans.

Patrick has a wealth of experience in the New Zealand property sector, through his previous roles with NZX Listed and non listed companies, including at Brookfield Offices Properties, DNZ Property Fund (Stride), and AMP Capital.

Lit and roaring as if a dragon were preparing to climb out, the cupola furnace with it's bright orange, lava-like liquid iron flowing out at 3000 degrees...

Prior to the discovery of insulin in the 1920s, a diagnosis of Type I Diabetes was equivalent to that of a terminal illness...

Postured eagerly at two adjacent grand pianos in a large living room, mother and daughter Donna and Rebecca Glass spent entire Saturdays practicing music as early as Becky’s toddler years.

2,300 degrees fahrenheit––It’s with this temperature; the temperature of a volcano, that artist Carlyn Ray feels most alive.That’s because it’s also the level of heat that is required to melt glass.

Yet with the high-speed hustle urban living demands, sometimes the desire for the serenity and solitude of nature can have you jumping out of your skin for a few moments off the beaten path.

Boxes and bubble wrap are age old tools, and they’ll certainly get your moving job done. However, with the plethora of resources available at your fingertips, why stop with what you already know? If that were how the world worked, we’d still be riding horses and trains.

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Doug Kirkpatrick wants to give people in the workplace “their brains back.” While the statement may sound bold, Kirkpatrick, a corporate environment expert, makes a strong argument against traditional work settings and highlights the damages of blind conformity in his new book “Beyond Empowerment: The Age of Self Managed Organizations.”

When recently freed slaves founded St. Paul United Methodist Church in 1873, they probably never anticipated that their little corner of Freedman's Town in a then-segregated city, would become Downtown Dallas's cultural hub less than a century later. Today the church is known as the "Soul of the Arts District," but it is not the only place with a creative are.

“In the world of eBooks and iBooks, it’s easy to forget how to handle real books,” said Josh Nathan general education faculty at The Art Institute of Colorado. The world has gone digital and content that used to only be available on sheets of paper in a bound book you bought from the bookstore or borrowed from the library is now accessible through countless platforms.

As a teacher, I taught urban middle school students with no journalism background, how to write for news, edit, to create graphics and layouts, develop storyboards and scripts, to take strong photos and write captions, to professionally interview, and to give and receive feedback.

Calm in the midst of her mother's frightening brush with death in the family's living room, high school sophomore and Health Science Academy student Mia Mainville took vitals, assessed her mother's condition and prepared to administer CPR.

With the earliest guitar form dating back to 2000 B.C., the guitar has been improved and perfected over time. Serving as the primary musical instrument in some of the world’s greatest hits during the last few centuries, guitars are deeply cherished by their owners.

As our children grow physically, we do our best as parents and loved ones to ensure their malleable minds follow suit. Shared experiences help families bond, but those valuable hours already spent together can be simultaneously employed as a tactic to supercharge our little one’s developing brains. So why not do both: Create lasting family memories and provide your child with a stronger educational foundation and a wealth of experiences to reference and rely on later in life?

Honey bees are deaf. Somewhat insignificant to the general public, this fact carries more weight...