By Abby Aguirre July 26, 2017 Octavia Butler’s tenth novel, “Parable of the Sower,” which was published in 1993, opens in Los Angeles in 2024. Global warming has brought drought…
Paul Klee led an artistic life that spanned the 19th and 20th centuries, but he kept his aesthetic sensibility tuned to the future. Because of that, much of the Swiss-German Bauhaus-associated painter’s…
Aldous Huxley (July 26, 1894–November 22, 1963) endures as one of the most visionary and unusual minds of the twentieth century — a man of strong convictions about drugs, democracy,…
Korean farmers face off against the US military's largest overseas base. If you drive about an hour south of Seoul, you will find yourself next to the largest US military…
two highlights: we hold swear words in a different part of the brain than the rest of language. We often don’t think of the literal meaning of common swear words…
In 1960, a new wonder drug hit the U.S. market. And while lots of new drugs promise dramatic results, this one would actually transform millions of lives and radically shift…
New Letters Alleging Abuse are Only Shocking if You Haven't Been Listening {read}
A woman who died in 1998 was married to a man who was born a slave and fought in the civil war in the union army. {listen} here is her…
The history of this country is such a dystopia. Thankfully there always seems to be people who leverage their own privilege to create networks and systems to help people targeted…
“Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people,” Heinrich Heine said in the 19th century.