By Mark Weisenmiller / 10.24.2016 “Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball…Baseball is Greek in being national, heroic, and broken up in the rivalries of city states”—Jacques M. Barzun (God’s Country and Mine, 1954) Baseball, or some variations of the sport, has existed in the United States for[…]
10.24.2016 This week we bring you a sip of nostalgia. Recently, we found out (a friend gave us the tip) that in Lisbon, there is a place where the coffee roasting is still made the old fashioned way, wood-fire roasted. Flor da Selva is a small venue lost in the middle of Madragoa district, a typical[…]
By David Korten / 10.19.2016 In this most bizarre of presidential elections, no one is talking about one of the biggest—if not the biggest—issues of our time. Namely, the global power imbalance between corporations and governments. Not Donald Trump, as he obsesses over the weight of a long-past Miss Universe. Not Hillary Clinton, despite her[…]
Stay home if you get the flu / Shutterstock By Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert / 10.23.2016 Commissioner of Health, Fellows Ambassador New York Academy of Science, Distinguished Lecturer in Epistemology and Community Medicine, New York Medical College Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center Seasonal influenza is a major global health concern. Worldwide, annual[…]
Should the public pay to read research? Barry Silver By Donald A. Barclaey / 10.23.2016 Deputy University Librarian University of California, Merced The cost of academic journals has increased steeply over the past few decades and continues to climb. Academic libraries, already caught in an economic squeeze, are finding it difficult to acquire new journal[…]
Shutterstock By Dr. Paul Freedman / 10.20.2016 Chester D. Tripp Professor of History Yale University In the food world, one of the biggest stories of the last 50 years has been the waning of French culinary authority, the end of a 300-year reign. In the latest annual ranking of “The World’s Fifty Best Restaurants,” only[…]
Trump Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway on State of the Union with Jake Tapper By J. M. Landers 10.23.2016 On any particular day you can find Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway on CNN denying reality. The system is rigged and her candidate didn’t really threaten to contest the legitimacy of American democracy and the polls are[…]