Details from Blue and White Dish with a Merchant Ship about 1510; Barlaam and Josaphat, 1469; and The History of the Emperor of China series, about 1690. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Digital images courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content Program A guided tour of objects that reveal the centuries-long influence of Asian art and[…]
Protesters shout outside the Republican National Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 12, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque By Dr. David Alpher Professor, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution George Mason University Take America back from those who have stolen it. Protect America from those who want to destroy it. Restore the principles that these usurpers betrayed.[…]
By Mark Manson / 06.05.2016 What You Can Do to Heal the Most Common Tendencies in Relationships What are unhealthy relationship habits? There’s no class in high school on how to not be a shitty boyfriend or girlfriend. Sure, they teach us the biology of sex, the legality of marriage, and maybe we read a[…]
P.U. – You Smell Sick! By Joe Gandelman The Moderate Voice Editor-in-Chief Believe it or not, that’s what part of people’s brains do as they almost automatically can tell you’re not well. Yes, the human nose can apparently detect disease,according to research published in Psychological Science. And the nose knows the person is fighting off[…]
Photo by Tim Wendelboe By Tim Wendelboe One of the recent trends in coffee is that some of the smaller specialised coffee roasters around the world and in the Nordic Countries are starting to treat coffee as a seasonal product. For many of you this may be a bit frustrating as a lot of your favourite[…]
By Dorian de Wind / 06.05.2016 I built this huge, expensive, beautiful house using the best materials and workmanship money can buy. The buyer, a Muslim — I love Muslims, I think they are great people — has filed a stupid lawsuit alleging that the house I built is a piece of crap. Can you[…]
Tourists flock to Lower Yosemite Falls in Yosemite National Park on a spring afternoon. Photo by Eddie Hernandez Photography / iStock. By Heather J. Hansen / 06.03.2016 This year marks the centennial of the National Park Service, and record numbers of visitors are expected to celebrate by exploring the system’s incomparable natural, historical, and cultural resources. All[…]
BEAM Inflation / NASA 06.03.2016 On Monday, June 6, astronaut Jeff Williams will enter the first human-rated expandable module deployed in space, a technology demonstration to investigate the potential challenges and benefits of expandable habitats for deep space exploration and commercial low-Earth orbit applications. Williams and the NASA and Bigelow Aerospace teams working at Mission[…]
Wikimedia Commons By (left-to-right) Dr. Thomas C. Scott-Phillips, Dr. Thomas E. Dickins, and Dr. Stuart A. West Scott-Phillips: Senior Research Fellow in Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Durham University Dickins: Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, University of East London West: Professor of Evolutionary Biology, University of Oxford Abstract To properly understand behavior, we must obtain both[…]
The question, and then the non-existent pause By Matthew A. McIntosh / 06.05.2016 Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Former CBS news anchor and current Yahoo “Global News Anchor” Katie Couric recently produced a documentary, “Under the Gun”, about gun violence and control in the United States. It was admittedly a POV (point-of-view) documentary, and that’s fine. What is[…]
By Joseph Robertson / 03.30.2016 Not long ago, Jesse (of Conduit Coffee) and I got it in our heads to do a series on the complexity of coffee. This was sort of made in the context of coffee complexity vs wine (following the publication of this article in WSJ), but our expertise with wine is[…]
CONVICTED RAPIST BROCK ALLEN TURNER Brock Allen Turner, who withdrew from the university, was arrested after students saw him lying on top of an unconscious woman outside a frat party From Sam Levin at The Guardian / 06.02.2016: A former Stanford University athlete convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman was sentenced to six months[…]
By David McRaney In a way, you can simply will yourself into a new physical form – that is if you use your will to routinely move heavy things, run around, or eat fewer tacos. Just as you can change your body at the atomic level by lifting weights, exercising, or eating differently, you can willfully[…]