If you’ll go to the previous post (just below this one), you’ll find quite a lot of comments, and quite a lot of Featured Comments. I thought I’d add my own pick, from up here in the bully pulpit. Oddly enough, I think the camera I miss the most is…
For artists who are just beginning to draw people portraits, it may seem quite intimidating. In principle, the time you spend on drawings of people is directly parallel to the degree of life-likeness of your creation. As you devote more hours to a drawing you can naturally dive deeper into…
Not that long ago, Democrats spoke of ideas. The 2020 presidential primary was rooted in policy: universal health care, the Green New Deal, immigration reform. It also bravely faced what it meant to be political. Over the course of more than a year, dozens of presidential candidates acted out what…
Pharrell and Jay-Z have released a new track called “Entrepreneur.” The track is tied to a new TIME magazine cover story about systemic racial inequality and was teased earlier today in said story. “The intention for a song was all about how tough it is to be an entrepreneur in…
Metaphors sustain us. I have always clung to the story in Platos Symposium of two halves meeting after a long separation in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy, because the pursuit of this dream drives so many of usor, at least, those of us who long to be…
(CNN)Chrissy Teigen admits she loves “Selling Sunset,” even as she’s questioned whether the TV show’s stars are, in fact, real estate agents. “I will say,” Teigen tweeted, “I look at LA real estate a lot and have never seen any of these people lol (n)either have our agents, who I…
We now have a name for the disease. These were the words of the director of the World Health Organization (WHO) in a historic announcement on 11 February 2020. Back then, there had only been 393 cases of a mysterious new respiratory illness outside China, and in most places life…
Culture comes in clumps, like queues of No 7 buses. In the 1590s everyone was writing sonnets; in the 1950s cinema was wall-to-wall westerns. Soon enough a new vogue catches the public imagination gothic novels or misery memoirs, Biblical epics or science fiction but its tricky to be a writer…
0 with 0 posters participating Sea level rise is an unambiguous consequence of climate change. Warmer water expands, while melted land ice flows into the sea. But what fun would it be if the natural world didnt make things a little more complicated? A number of processes can cause the…
New Delhi: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has endorsed her brother Rahul Gandhi’s stand on a non-Gandhi president for the Congress, saying there are plenty of people capable of leading the party, remarks that were carried in a new book which according to the Congress were made in July last year in…
