It’s practically guaranteed that we now have extra stupid people on the planet than ever earlier than. After all, we is likely to be tempted to suppose; simply take a look at what number of of them disagree with my politics. However this unprecedented stupidity is primarily, if not totally, a function of an unprecedentedly…
Several generations of American students have now had the experience of being informed by an English trainer that they’d been learning Robert Frost all mistaken, even when they’d never learn him in any respect. Most, at the least, had seen his traces “Two roads diverged in a wooden, and I— / I took the one…
President-elect Trump’s resolution to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a divisive skeptic of vaccines and purveyor of misinformation, to guide the sprawling Division of Well being and Human Companies has raised alarm amongst teachers. If the U.S. Senate confirms Kennedy, he’ll oversee quite a few federal businesses, together with the Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Companies,…
After making the rounds of movie festivals for greater than a 12 months, the documentary Be a part of or Die begins streaming on Netflix as we speak. It provides a layperson’s introduction to the life and work of Robert D. Putnam, a political scientist and professor emeritus of public coverage at Harvard College. The…
In 2013, the Oxford Dictionaries introduced that “selfie” had been deemed their Phrase of The 12 months. The time period, whose first fileed use as an Instagram hashtag occurred on January 27, 2011, was actually invented in 2002, when an Australian chap submited a picture of himself on an interweb discussion board and known as…
Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and L. Sprague De Camp on the Navy Yard in 1944 Robert Heinlein was born in 1907, which put him on the mature aspect by the point of the United States’ entry into World Conflict II. Isaac Asimov, his youthful colleague in science fiction, was born in 1920 (or thereabouts), and…
When you go to listen to Patti Smith in concert, you count on her to sing “Beneath the Southern Cross,” “As a result of the Night time,” and virtually certainly “People Have the Power,” the hit single from Dream of Life. Like her 1975 debut Horses, that album had a cover photo by Robert Mapplethorpe, whom Smith describes as…