First as Farce, Then as Tragedy
...epic’s prodigious sway over the popular Hindu culture and its unique relationship to history has made this possible. In the West, one encounters the epic as a literary genre that...
This Week in Art Crime
...call on the french government to do the right thing and listen to our petition that we have sent to the ministers of culture, foreign relations and justice." (via)...
Money, Sex and Tweens
...what you want. Or perhaps expand what you want. JC: Not me. I found it really calcified my interests. I imagine that I tried different things for about six months...
Ordinary Boredom
...display are the postcards Shore had made, a series called Tall in Texas, featuring more or less generic locales in Amarillo. Apparently he tried to sell these commercially and reportedly...
Forced into the Fringe: Margaret Murray’s Witch-Cult Hypothesis
...By Kathleen Sheppard Margaret Murray was an Egyptologist at University College, London from 1894 to 1935. She spent much of her career managing administrative and teaching duties in the...
Kenya's Security Act: Citizen Reporting
...finding out the truth in Kenya and trying to hold the state accountable. Key Changes in the Security Bill Kenya’s mainstream media has tried to argue that the Security Act...
Lucky Number Seven
...off as thoughtful and kind — it’s clear that he wants to use his good fortune to help others — and lives out his commitment to social justice by teaching...
The Real Image
...that I, too, was gaining access to more of my brain than ordinary mortals could, and that if I tried, I could destroy objects with the power of my mind....
Osmic Frequencies
...toluene-like” and with a stronger bitter almond character than normal acetophenone. A 2004 study published in Nature Neuroscience tried to refute this claim. The Rockefeller olfactory neurogeneticists Andreas Keller and...
May Day 2012
...officials have tried to control the student movement. Mainstream Québec media – and by extension the majority of Canadian media that pick up from these sources – have insisted on...
Les Trahisons des Clercs
...procedures of prediction another. The Italian criminologist, Cesare Lombroso, forwarded the idea that criminals may be distinguished by certain shared physiognomic traits. Francis Galton tried to define these traits by...
Routine Repairs & Earth & Dust
...tried to slit her wrists is still resting, her painter husband’s mother now taking care of their 2 young children. This is that old N.Y. dread—the frenetic running, the bleak...
Ramadan Diaries, Day Nine
...goes, 'Dude, I thought you were vegan!" ♦ Back home I listen to an "Alpha Wave ~ Brain Power ~ Concentration Music" playlist on YouTube and read past midnight....
Nightspawn
...for the eerie quality of his urban nocturnes, but as a man and a photographer he preferred the warmth of seedy music halls and the company of prostitutes. Now imagine...
Confectionery Curriculum
...Illustration from Bürgerliches Wiener Kochbuch (1906) "The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry."...
Sunday Reading
..."They under-perform because their white lower middle-class culture values sociability” “a pilot program for a massive facial recognition surveillance system” Reclaim UC: University of California steps up out-of-state recruiting The...