November 9, 2018 0 The Weekender, November 9, 2018 1) “Document: The Symbolism Survey ” (The Paris Review, 10-15 minutes, December 2011). This is [...]
November 8, 2018 0 Who Needs Ice Cream When You Have Dirty Laundry? Meditation. Nail biting. Eating a whole pint of Ben and Jerry’s. We have a lot of different ways to manage [...]
November 6, 2018 0 The Voting Plan That Would Have Made a Difference Today, throughout the United States, is Election Day. Millions of Americans will take to the polls today to [...]
November 5, 2018 0 Today Isn’t National Doughnut Day There’s a Day for everything. March 14th is, of course, Pi Day. On December 13th, we apparently celebrate [...]
November 2, 2018 0 The Weekender, November 2, 2018 1) “My Grandfather Thought He Solved a Cosmic Mystery” (The Atlantic, 18 minutes, November 2018). [...]
November 1, 2018 0 The Cat’s Meow, Instrumentalized In 1984, a guy named Charlie Schmidt took his cat named Fatso, dressed her up in a blue shirt, placed her in [...]
October 31, 2018 0 Where Did the Fear of Poisoned Halloween Candy Come From? On October 31, 1983, advice columnist Abigail Van Buren—better known as “Dear Abby”—published a [...]
October 30, 2018 0 Putting Your Own Stamp On It Pictured above is a letter — and it’s a rather generic one at that. It has an address, a return [...]
October 29, 2018 0 When It’s a Good Idea to be Two-Faced The Bengal tiger, above, is the national animal of both India and Bangladesh. And if you walk around [...]
October 26, 2018 0 The Weekender, October 26, 2018 1) “How I Accidentally Wound Up Running an Outlaw Biker Gang in Ohio” (Medium, 23 minutes, [...]