Making a Point: The Persnickety Story of English Punctuation David Crystal Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Books “Behind every punctuation mark lies a thousand stories,” writes David Crystal in his new book, Making a Point: The Persnickety Story of English Punctuation (Profile Books). He then fills the pages with the...
What’s Your Big Idea? Anne Bramley Arts & Culture When I was finishing my Ph.D. in English literature, I confessed to a good friend and fellow grad student, “I feel like I no longer get the purpose of our discipline. I mean, what exactly are we teaching...
Oh Captain, My Therapist Amanda Ann Klein Arts & Culture, Education This piece originally appeared on The Judgemental Observer and is reposted with permission from Amanda Anne Klein. If you are a college-level educator, you have most likely experienced the following...
Caredroids and the Future of Growing Old Angela Roothaan Arts & Culture Recently, the online magazine, Good, suggested robots may be the future of elder care. But how will these caredroids change the way we understand what it means to “care”? And how will they change the way...
Rogue Nation’s Impossible Missing Kiss William Cheng Arts & Culture, Music Your mission, should you choose to accept it: name a Hollywood action movie that doesn’t contain a kiss. Tough, right? And yet that’s the most subtle stunt Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation pulls...
Pop Divas Turn an “Old” Sound into Power and Experience Alexandra Apolloni Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Society & Culture In 2014 Aretha Franklin released her first album since 1985: Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics. Whether critics praised it or panned it, they wanted to talk about age. “At age 72," the...
The Night Clark Gable Came to Town Lisa Annelouise Rentz Art & Literature, Arts & Culture First, Lilo Creighton arrived, about ten years before the famous guest. Lilo was white-blonde, bronzed and German, and quite athletic. She was often seen sprinting around town like she was trying to outrun...
