WHAT YOU MUST DO
TO AVOID GETTING ROUND TO DOING WHAT YOU SHOULD DO
Go to the Astor Piazzolla Listening Booth to hear tangos and other music while you visit other links listed below.
Read The Economist, the most intelligent of news magazines yet amusing, like The Spectator, noted since 1828 for controversy elegantly expressed. Political commentary inundates America but only the Capitol Steps has wit.
Click here to enter almost any of the world's great art museums except the Smithsonian and the Tate Collections. Browse through 125,000 works of art in the artcyclopedia. Explore the Chauvet Cave containing 400 paintings and engravings made 30,000 years ago.
Marvel at the beauty of tropical butterflies, hummingbirds, coral reefs, and nudibranchs. See the world through the lenses of nature and adventure photographer Galen Powell: in 2002 we circumnavigated the Behring Sea with him and his wife Barbara ― their last trip before a plane crash killed them both.
Dream of traveling to exclusive, money-no-object resorts and the world's best destinations.
Turn the pages of famous illustrated books: John Audubon's The Birds of America, Pierre-Joseph Redouté's Les Roses, Robert Thornton's dramatic Temple of Flora, Maria Sibylla Merian's insect book, and David Roberts' Views in the Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia.
Download a free-to-try screensaver with 48 images from the two most magnificent books on Birds of Paradise, those by Daniel Elliot and John Gould – or download free-to-keep fractal screensavers.
