Wisconsin Senator Robert La Follette and his supporters pioneered long-shot primary challenges, strong ideology, and populist rhetoric a century ago.Source: www.theatlantic.com Continue reading

New allegations of sexual harassment and inequality could help change a culture that routinely alienates female fans and cartoonists.Source: www.theatlantic.com Continue reading

The stereotype that only men want to read superhero stories is wrong—but just how wrong?Source: www.theatlantic.com Continue reading

Japanese duo Megumi Kajiwara and Tathuhiko Nijima created an interactive children’s book, Motion Silhouette, that tells its story using shadows and light. You can use your own flashlight to manipulate the imagery. The results are quite stunning. Here are more… Continue reading

Here’s a tiny confession. I’m bored.Yes; I know.Source: medium.com”To be bored isn’t to be indifferent. It is to be fatigued. Because one is exhausted.” Continue reading

A huge expanse of water trapped in a layer of the Earth’s mantle could help explain the origin of our oceansSource: www.newscientist.com Continue reading

Ten years ago, it was wildly controversial to talk about psychological differences between liberals and conservatives. Today, it’s becoming hard not to.Source: billmoyers.com”…All of this matters, of course, because we still operate in politics and in media as if minds… Continue reading

Something is out of joint: Overworked and underpaid graduate students are taking on major teaching responsibilities, apparently at least in part so that parents can get a discount on tuition, and professors can produce books and articles of dubious societal… Continue reading

The local name for the Philadelphia neighborhood of Kensington is “the Badlands,” and with good reason. Pockmarked with empty lots and burned-out row houses, the area has an unemployment rate of 29 percent and a poverty rate of 90 percent.… Continue reading

Jo Fitzpatrick‎UK sculptor Robin Wight creates dramatic scenes of wind-blown fairies clutching dandelions, clinging to trees, and seemingly suspended in midair, all with densely wrapped forms of stainless steel wire. The artist currently has several pieces on view at the… Continue reading