By Danika Kimball / 08.23.2016 When Julia Chase-Brand was growing up, women didn’t run. Born in 1945 in Groton, Connecticut, Chase recalls being surrounded by four active brothers, in a time where girls couldn’t run, play soccer, and if they were to play basketball, it was at the half court line. Inspired by local distance[…]
Seamus and Madeline play with their second-hand toys. (WNV/Frida Berrigan) By Frida Berrigan / 02.15.2016 “Mine!” “No. It’s mine!!” They keep this “conversation” going for a while before there is a screech and a wail. “Figure out a way to share it,” I call from the other room. “Madeline,” says four-year-old Seamus, who puts on[…]
By Brian Tashman / 09.12.2016 In a speech to the Values Voter Summit on Saturday, reality TV star Phil Robertson recounted a meeting with Donald Trump in which he told the GOP presidential nominee that he would baptize him on camera to get “God on our side.” “If you really want to see something wild,[…]
By Bob O’Hearn / 08.05.2016 The Conscious Process When we consider the nature of our own apparently fragile existence, as well as that of the world and all of its varied phenomena, many questions tend to arise, so let’s take a brief moment and see if we can recognize what’s actually going on. First of[…]
The first results from the Gaia satellite, which is completing an unprecedented census of more than one billion stars in the Milky Way, are being released today to astronomers and the public. 09.14.2016 Detailed information about more than a billion stars in the Milky Way has been published in the first data release from the[…]
From Julie Hirschfield Davis at the New York Times / 09.12.2016: The White House said on Monday that President Obama would veto legislation approved by Congress that would allow the families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to sue Saudi Arabia for any role in the plot, escalating a bipartisan dispute with lawmakers[…]
Are there really heroes and villains in Shakespeare’s plays? Those concepts suggest that someone can be all good, noble and well intentioned on the one hand, or all bad, ill-intentioned and downright evil on the other. What makes Shakespeare’s characters so interesting is that they are human beings, motivated by the things that motivate human[…]
This illustration shows a glowing stream of material from a star as it is being devoured by a supermassive black hole in a tidal disruption flare. – Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Supermassive black holes, with their immense gravitational pull, are notoriously good at clearing out their immediate surroundings by eating nearby objects. When a star passes within[…]
Roman Opus Mixtum Wall By Victor Labate / 08.31.2016 Ancient Roman Historian Romae Vitam The many Roman walls still visible today throughout Europe and the Mediterranean, be they defensive walls such as the Servian Wall or house and monument walls, tell us a great deal about the evolution of Roman construction techniques. Roman walls went[…]
A 3D printed Apple logo is seen in front of a displayed Irish flag in this illustration taken September 2, 2016. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo By Jason Lange / 09.15.2016 Reuters / Washington The Obama administration on Thursday took action to limit the use of foreign tax credits by American multinational companies to reduce their U.S.[…]