Winter Afternoon
Hear from Charles, one of the security guards, about how George Wesley Bellows’ “Winter Afternoon” is one of his favorite works of art at the Norton Museum.
Karl Marx on Clowns
via Lady Izdihar
The AfD party in Germany
via DW
“Just Send us Pictures of Your feet”: Consent and Biometric Extraction in the AI Supply Chain
My name is James Oyange, though many of my comrades in the tech space know me as Mojez. For years, I’ve worked in the “invisible” levels of the online space…
Five Things Fan Fic
Five Things... is a fanfiction writing form or structure that originated in Smallville fandom in 2001 with the fic Five Things That Aren't True by Basingstoke. The format requires a…
The Five Things Essay
An all-purpose writing prompt to help you find your voice, lose your voice, beat writer's block, or figure out what the hell you want to write about in the first…
Monty Dons American Southern Gardens
America’s southern gardens are beautiful, ambitious, and inseparable from the complex history that shaped them. Monty Don travels from Washington DC and Jefferson’s Monticello to Bunny Mellon’s Oak Spring, Charleston’s…
Women with same health conditions as men ‘less likely to be offered active treatment’
Women with the same medical condition as men are less likely to be offered treatment such as surgery, a stent or a strong painkiller, research has found. A review of…
An apartheid driving system
Palestine
The Self-Taught Writer: Crafting a Bespoke Education
On the book tour for my debut novel, the question I was asked at every event was why I did not give up—even as it took me seven years to…