How The Enrollment Industrial Complex Is Harming Higher Ed
“The concept is to award financial aid in a way that results in the maximum total amount of net tuition revenue for the institution.”...
A Performance Artist Steals A Coin From The British Museum. Is It Art?
The central focus of the project was the coin, its removal from its display and its deposition in a donation box at the museum....
What I Learned Memorizing A Poem A Day
Because the process is as simple as it is stultifying, memorizing a poem always begins as a crime. The tedium of repetition reduces the...
Remembering Lewis Lapham
His goal: “to ask questions, not to provide ready-made answers, to say, in effect, look at this, see how much more beautiful and strange...
Report: People Are Posting Less On Social Media
Billions of people access social media monthly, but users are posting less and favoring a more passive experience, surveys of users and research from...
The Woman Who Invented The Apple Dance
The dance was dreamt up by Kelley Heyer, a New York-based actor and content creator who decided to film herself making it up “on a...
Why An Actor On The Fast Path To Stardom Left Hollywood For A Quiet...
Josh Hartnett, raising goats (and four children) in Hampshire, says, that “‘unlike when he’s in New York or LA, ‘where people only want to...
Books For Lovers Of The Olympics
When the Games aren’t on - or, horror of horrors, after they end in August - reading material abounds. - The Atlantic
For Some Reason, People Really Love R-Rated Marvel
Like, a lot. Deadpool & Wolverine "shattered the opening record for R-rated films previously held by the first Deadpool ($132m) and notched a spot...
Comedy Critics Weigh In On The Vice-President’s Laugh
“Only in an era when everything gets politicized would a campaign come out aggressively against boisterous laughter. What next? Running against puppies and ice...
How Singing Helps People With Dementia Reconnect
“For those who choose to sing in dementia-inclusive choirs, numerous studies have found substantial improvements in communication, mood, wellbeing and quality of life.” - The Guardian (UK)
Comedies Aimed At, And Starring, Older Women Are Doing Pretty Damn Well
Some similarities in plot exist: “There are usually high jinks involving behavior that one might not expect from seniors. They get high. They go...
Who Will Be This Year’s Emmy Villain?
David Zaslav? Robert Downey Jr.? Or perhaps the entire British villainy Gestalt of The Crown? - Vulture
Hollywood, Now Playing To The Red States
“A lot of people in Hollywood only seem able to discuss the middle of the country while holding their nose. But entertainment is a...
As CD Sales Soar, Everyone Older Than 35 Wonders Why They Gave Their Collections...
“What a cool thing, I told myself, as I walked away unencumbered, to own no albums… yet somehow to own every album. What freedom! What choice!...
Philip Glass Warned The Crimean Ballet Not To Use His Music
“In an open letter posted on his social media accounts, Glass says he has not given the ballet company permission to use his music,...
The Woman Who Builds The NYT’s Connections Doesn’t Know Why People Are So Intense...
“Get invested enough in Connections, and its easy to feel like Liu holds a weird sway over your life, as a chosen one who’s...
Why Can’t AI Do A Better Job Of Recommending Movies?
“It’s one of the most common low-stakes annoyances in modern life: you flop down on the couch, … to watch one of the...
James C. Scott, An Iconoclastic Social Scientist Who Studied How Marginalized Groups Undermine Traditional...
He was “a big-picture scholar,” readable to non-academics as well as other scholars, and “the theories about resistance to power that he extrapolated led...
Bernini, The Sculptor Who Slashed His Mistress’s Face When He Was Done With Her
“Just months after lovingly carving Costanza’s face in marble, Bernini ordered it to be slashed with a knife by one of his servants.” -...
The University Of Iowa Paves A Path For Restitution With Benin Bronzes
Representatives from the U of I's Stanley Museum of Art met with the ceremonial leader of the Edo people "and officials of the Benin...
Edna O’Brien, Groundbreaking Irish Novelist, Has Died At 93
“Ms. O’Brien grew up in a newly independent and staunchly Catholic Ireland with firm ideas about the roles of women, who had no lawful...
Italian Officials Ask That Tourists Not Use Public Statues For Erotic Enjoyment
Grinding on a statue of Bacchus might sound fun (and, well, perhaps it was?), but the young woman who experienced that joy in Florence...
Hollywood Teamsters And Other Craft Unions Come To Tentative Agreement With Studios
“As of late Saturday night, the Hollywood Basic Crafts and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have reached agreements on six different...
So, Are We Living In The West Wing Or Veep?
TV show memes lit up Instagram, texts, and group chats when President Biden stepped down. “One thing someone on text thread said is...
