by Kat Bair | Oct 30, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
Margaret and HA Rey were German Jews born near the end of the 19th century. After meeting as teenagers, they both moved to Brazil in the late 1920’s to escape the rise of Nazism. They got married and moved to Paris in 1935, thinking they were safe from the Nazi...
by Kat Bair | Oct 24, 2025 | Big Ideas, Blog
In the 1980’s, there was an amusement park in New Jersey called Action Park. Designed as a weekend escape for New Yorkers by an eccentric finance millionaire, the park featured water rides, go-karts, massive slides… and almost no safety regulations. Action Park became...
by Kat Bair | Oct 15, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
My husband is in tech, and also works from home, which gives me a fascinating peek into a completely different way of engaging with work, with colleagues, and with the projects that their organizations take on. In his corner of vocational life, there is a...
by Kat Bair | Oct 10, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
A Korean pastor recently told me the story of the Ungnyeo, the mythical mother of the Korean nation. The myth goes that a tiger and bear both prayed to the heavenly God to be human. The God told them to go into a cave for 100 days, eating only garlic and mugwort, and...
by Kat Bair | Oct 2, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
Over the past several decades, neuroscientists have been gathering a lot of data about how brains work. They’ve managed to map where some specific functions like movement, speech, and visual processing seem to happen, but our understanding is still about as nuanced as...
by Kat Bair | Sep 25, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
I used to lead a get-to-know-you game with teenagers where I asked them to tell me everything important about themselves in under a minute. They would look panicky and start quickly listing facts, identities – “I play soccer, I have a little sister, uhhh, I’m in...
