Body Mass Index
...it. Action films once made much of their protagonists’ pain. In Die Hard, Bruce Willis winced through every bruise and blow while maintaining his ironic cool. By contrast, Bullock's body...
Sunday Reading
...to Mr. Modi stopped after this period.” “Gaining competitive advantage on exams and increasing creativity in business weren’t of the utmost concern to Buddha and other early meditation teachers.” “she...
New World Anxiety
...American dream collects around our feet. We have watched our loved ones die or be killed for the sake of empire while Presidents come and go. My election night experience...
A Dark City
...the marble soothing Moscow’s lungs, that Mbobo guesses for the first time that one of them is going to die soon. Here is the chapter that comes soon after that,...
The Lives of Others
...artifact… Forms are there to serve the culture, and when they die, they die for a good reason.” He goes on to say, I swear to God, “or so I...
Only One Part of Us Is Sane
...die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations.” —Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon...
Eulogy For Pan-Africanism: Long Live Man-Africanism
...architects of the crisis with crimes against humanity. Then the news cycle moved on. The people of Darfur, however, continue to suffer and die. But instead of the protection and...
Insuring the Dead
...inside their bodies and the women die immediately, painfully. Other times, they cannot excrete the drugs and they die in other, violent ways. Law enforcement both in the U.S. and...
Thunderous Graveyard Affirmations
A Letter on the Uprising in New York
Two Months
In Gaza, we have evidence of the functioning world system.
Remains of the Day
...19. Memento mori: “Remember your mortality,” “Remember you must die,” or “Remember you will die.” 20. The minute I note the absence of Wong Kar-wai’s films on time in The...
Beauty Blogosphere 5.17.13
...Congratulations to commenter #2, Cynthia, winner of last week's giveaway of Kjerstin Gruys' Mirror Mirror Off the Wall: How I Learned to Love My Body by Not Looking at...
Nuclear Renewal
Viewers can now browse footage of Cold War-era nuclear bomb tests on Youtube. What is the value of that access?
Sunday Reading
...bombs and lies "To watch as bodies are scattered about in piles in front of you, like discarded exam papers at the end of a school term." Israeli university rebukes...
Sunday Reading
...Girls Lead in Science Exam, but Not in the United States A Day In A 90's Taiwanese Childhood Up for Debate: Can Social Media Solve Real-World Problems? 'We Ask That...
Get Thee to a University
...any indication. According to the American Association of University Women, the ratio of seventh- and eighth-grade boys scoring higher than 700 on the SAT math exam was thirteen to one...