Does The Spanish Language Explain The “Hispanic Paradox” In Health Outcomes?
The "paradox" is that Hispanics in the US tend to have less heart disease and longer lifespans than non-Hispanic whites despite having higher risk...
Dr. William G Hamilton, Who Pioneered Dance Medicine, Dead At 90
"Ballet dancers may be the 'athletes of God,' as Albert Einstein supposedly said. But until Dr. Hamilton came along" as New York City Ballet's...
CNN’s New Streaming Network Is About To Get Massive Budget Cuts
"The news giant was initially planning to invest around $1 billion in the service, CNN+, over the next four years. Hundreds of millions of...
Library Of Congress Picks Recordings To Preserve
The list usually includes what the LOC calls "sounds of history," and this year, those selections include the complete presidential speeches of President Franklin...
2000 Irish Artists To Get Basic Incomes
“It is recognition, at government level, of the important role of the arts in Irish society. It also places a value on the time...
Margaret Atwood: Feelings As Explanation, Not Excuse
Feelings are real—people do have them, I have observed—and they can certainly be plausible explanations for all kinds of behavior. But they are not...
Hollywood Shoots Record Number Of Productions In Canada In 2021
They made a record volume of productions here between March 2020 and April 2021 worth $5.27 billion. Canada’s homegrown film and TV industry also...
Designing Ukraine Refugee Shelters That Are Livable
The Paper Partition System (PPS) is quickly and easily constructed using cardboard tubes as structure and textiles as partitions. One unit takes approximately five...
Ancient Australian Rock Art Threatened
These artifacts are 10 times older than the pyramids of Egypt. Dating back tens of thousands of years, this cluster of one million images on...
How Thomas More And Thomas Cromwell Ended Up Glaring At Each Other Across A...
That fireplace is at The Frick Collection in midtown Manhattan, and on each side of it are Hans Holbein's famous portraits of Henry VIII's...
Cities Not Working? Why Not Build New Ones?
At first blush, it might seem obvious. But history is full of failed, unfinished or underperforming scratch-built city projects, in California and elsewhere, and more are in the pipeline. - Bloomberg
Nature Writing Should Be As Unsentimental As Nature Is
"Every writer on nature comes to their own accommodation with the hard facts of wild life. We needn't all look at them too closely,...
Broadway Box Office Stays Steady
In all, the 31 productions reporting grosses took in a combined $28,329,869 for the week ending April 10, down a small 2% from the...
Spoilers And Their Relationship To Relentless Capitalist Excess, Explained
In which Emily St. James argues that the culture's arguments about spoilers (to avoid nor not to avoid) are basically another tool with which...
Report: Pre-K School Causes Short-Term Gains, Long-Term Harm
Several well-controlled studies showing that academic training in preschool or in kindergarten, while improving test scores in the short term, causes long-term harm. -...
In Australia’s Election, Nobody’s Talking About The Arts. So What Are The Parties’ Arts...
"Just because a policy isn't written down, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. ... By examining a party's record, we can assess the values that...
Police Play Copyrighted Music To Thwart Viral Video
Police in other cities have been recorded playing copyrighted music in an effort to prevent videos of them from hitting YouTube and other social...
Watching “Servant Of The People” Now That Volodymyr Zelensky Is Actually President
"(It's) like watching The West Wing knowing that America really elected Martin Sheen — and that he became the most rousing wartime leader in...
Russian’s Rich Lexicon Of Profanity Has Become A Tool In Ukraine’s Resistance
"Obscenity might seem a trivial side note in such a horrific conflict, but understanding it is a way of understanding language, and language has...
Dance Salad, A Festival “Born In Brussels, Brought Up In Houston”
For 25 years, an enterprising Texan named Nancy Henderek has been bringing major artists to her hometown for a three-day festival with "bite-size samplings"...
A Group Of Napoleon’s Personal Effects, Stolen Years Ago, Were Found On eBay
The items — portraits of Napoleon and Josephine, locks of the emperor's hair, and his inkwell set — were stolen from a historic house...
Arena Stage’s “Toni Stone” Was Cancelled Mid-Run Because The Lead Actress No Longer Felt...
"Santoya Fields said it wasn't an illness that led to her being unable to take the stage; it was the impact of what she...
Largest Van Gogh Exhibition In U.S. In 20 Years Opens This Fall
"The coming Van Gogh in America exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts will include 72 Van Goghs, with 56 paintings and 16 works...
Long Beach Opera Wasn’t Racist Or Sexist, Just Poorly Managed: Investigation
When three staffers resigned last month, they claimed a culture of racism and misogyny kept them from being able to do their work, and...
How Poetry Can Aid Science
When done properly, poetry can help to make science more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. Not just as a box-ticking exercise because making sure all...
