Lionel Shriver on the menace of “semantic drift.” Kevin Dettmar reports from The World of Bob Dylan Symposium, a four-day + more
Lionel Shriver on the menace of “semantic drift.” Kevin Dettmar reports from The World of Bob Dylan Symposium, a four-day + more
“Creating a Gong,” according to Paiste, “is a dedication to the deeper meaning of the structured, focused vibrations which unfold + more
Apart from being a talented designer, our own Steven Kutsch is an amateur mountaineer, recovering Red Bull addict, and Saw + more
People of a certain age will no doubt remember this stunt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1CP1751wJA That was forty years ago today. But because + more
The trouble with the contemporary generation is that it has not read the minutes of the last meeting. Richard Weaver + more
So this story about the pay gap between women’s soccer players, gender discrimination, and unequal pay is interesting. Not, of + more
The folks at More in Common just released the results of a study that “explores how Americans tend to have + more
from BROKEDOWN PALACE Robert Hunter River gonna take me Sing me sweet and sleepy Sing me sweet and sleepy all + more
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, I’m sure that none of you will be shocked to learn that women rate + more
A study published nearly 20 years ago found that attractive children and adults were not only judged more positively than + more
When I was a kid, my stepdad kept a spinthariscope in his sock drawer.* And every once in a while + more
Sorry, but there’s no such thing as a photographic memory, you can’t learn while you sleep, and multi-tasking is impossible. + more
After studying several instances of what we now call “spontaneous human combustion,” French agronomist Pierre-Aimé Lair (1769-1853) discovered that most + more
I’m out early tomorrow, so here’s an assignment and a recommendation, in that order: Caitrin Keiper’s “Do Elephants Have Souls?” + more