Masterpiece Theatre: The American
Modine is Christopher Newman, a rich American tycoon who has taken a break from America's Gilded Age. He soon finds that his multiple fortunes in soaps, land and railroads count…
Anarchic Cats Are Ensnared in Chaos in Léo Forest’s Dynamic Drawings
For Léo Forest, these lovable, independent, wily, and territorial creatures provide an endless source of inspiration for dynamic pencil drawings. The Paris-based artist’s playful works tap into the physical and…
New Ways of Seeing: Our Twenty-First Annual Look at Debut Poets
What compels someone to write poetry in the first place—to commit to this nuanced, imaginative, and far-reaching art form? One of the ten authors in our twenty-first annual look at…
A Computer-Free Day: How One Small Mistake Changed My Perspective on Productivity
I’ve often heard the advice that if you get blocked creatively, you should do something other than writing. Go for a walk, listen to music, visit a museum. Yes, yes,…
How the brown rat quietly spread across the world
The brown rat has spread to almost every continent around the world. But how did they get here? And are they here to stay? {read} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k04BwP9_U4
Phoenix police sergeant under investigation for off-duty actions at student ICE protest
CHANDLER, AZ — The Phoenix Police Department is investigating the involvement of an off-duty sergeant in a late January high school walkout, which escalated to the arrest of one teenager.…
Long COVID tied to higher risk of heart disease, even after mild infection
A diagnosis of long COVID is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, particularly cardiac arrhythmias, heart failure, and coronary artery disease, even among patients who were not hospitalized…
The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux
He read the law, took it at face value, and started writing code. The word for what that is sits somewhere past malice, something more insidious: an engineer who treats…
FTC Warns PayPal, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard Against Debanking
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson sent letters on Thursday to the CEOs of PayPal, Stripe, Visa and Mastercard, warning them against debanking practices — including denying customers access to…
Employee accused of arson after paper goods warehouse destroyed in massive fire in Ontario
Oregon state employee arrested for attempted arson on government offices