Find A Spark | Ideas to inspire

A leaf, lying on the grass

Blog Post

4 health and wellbeing lessons from leaving my job

A screenshot from Steve Johnson's TED talk on how play can lead to great innovation and invention.

Video

The Playful Wonderland Behind Great Inventions

A family tree showing how closely related George V, Wilhelm II and Nicholas II were.

Blog Post

World War One — a family affair.

The cover of The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan

Book

The Silk Roads

The cover of the DVD for The Visitor, a film about a college professor's friendship with a Syrian-Senegalese couple and their battle against deportation

Film

The Visitor

A screengrab from the National Geographic video "This Crazy Tree Grows 40 Kinds of Fruit"

Video

This Crazy Tree Grows 40 Kinds of Fruit

The cover of the DVD of The Orphanage, the horror film from J. A. Bayona

Film

The Orphanage

The front gate to Fort Sperone... shut, unfortunately

Travel Blog

Exploring Genoa — Parco delle Mura (Park of the City Walls) (#1)

A screenshot from South Park, advertising the documentary 6 Days to Air

Video

6 Days to Air

A person passing a flower to someone else, representing sharing

Blog Post

Sharing, not imposing

The cover of A Concise History of the World by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Book

A Concise History of the World

The cover of the DVD for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, the 2014 follow-up to Carl Sagan's original series on the Universe

TV Series

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

The cover of the DVD of Lost in Translation, the Sofia Coppola-directed film starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson

Film

Lost in Translation

A screen grab from the The Vegan Ironman Diet of Cro-Mags' John Joseph documentary by Fuel

Video

The Hardcore Punk Vegan Ironman

Grace Kim presenting her TED talk on how cohousing can make us happier

Video

How cohousing can make us happier (and live longer)

Video

Yellow Brick Cinema

A map showing the last time that each European country was occupied

Infographic

The last time each European country was occupied

Daniel Kahneman presenting his TED talk on experience vs. memory

Video

The riddle of experience vs. memory

Episode 145 of the Tim Ferriss Podcast with Cal Fussman as a guest

Podcast

Tim Ferris Podcast #145: The Interview Master

Episode 313 of the Tim Ferriss Podcast with Michael Pollan as a guest

Podcast

Tim Ferriss Podcast #313: Michael Pollan on pyschedelics