May 31, 2018 A Visual History of Light 400,000 years ago, humans and Neanderthals created fire. This ignited a relationship between people and photons that changed the course of mankind—and continues to evolve to this day.
May 29, 2018 Which Mental 'Deficits' Are Really Hidden Strengths? There are many different ways in which the brain is rewired differently than the norm. But Heather Heying, evolutionary biologist and former Professor at The Evergreen State College, is saying that these so-called differences are really strengths.
May 28, 2018 The US-Canada Border Splits This Road Down The Middle Rue Canusa (or Canusa Avenue) is a street that's split in two by a border: the northern part is in Stanstead, Canada, and the southern part is in Derby Line, USA — and border crossings here aren't as easy as they used to be.
May 24, 2018 Is the Trump Presidency a Religious Cult? Are fundamentalist Christians a dangerous religious cult? Possibly. The controversial author and religious scholar Reza Aslan posits that President Donald Trump has much of his evangelical fan-base believing that he's somehow been anointed by God to become President. Nevermind the Russian election scandal, his affairs with porn stars and unwarranted sexual acts towards women, or his inability to remember even a single Bible verse when asked. Evangelical Christians are abandoning their core moral beliefs to follow, as Reza suggests, someone who exhibits every trademark of a cult leader.
May 23, 2018 Faces of Greed: Jeff Bezos Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' wealth increases by $275 million every single day. Meanwhile, Amazon workers have to rely on food stamps and public assistance just to survive. This is what a rigged economy is all about.
May 22, 2018 Noam Chomsky: Donald Trump is a Distraction While Donald Trump works to distract the public, his administration is working to dismantle every aspect of government that benefits the people.
May 21, 2018 Secrets Given Away By Silent Letters Silent letters can make English frustrating, but they can also give away connections between related words that you might not realize share a history.
May 18, 2018 I Love NY A short film about Milton Glaser, the creator of the infamous I Heart NY symbol and his struggle to find love for the city in a trying time.
May 17, 2018
Life and Death of a Bridge Los Angeles just lost Historic Monument #908, the Riverside Figueroa Bridge. Join Tom as he tries to figure out how Los Angeles could let this happen.
May 16, 2018 Tom Walker AKA Jonathan Pie on Satire Political satirist Tom Walker, best known for his viral comedy character Jonathan Pie, talks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy about the purpose behind his satire, why the left need to reclaim freedom of speech and how he’d change the world if given the chance.
May 14, 2018 What is a Word? Why even ask this question? A word is a word, what could be simpler? But it's not as simple as it seems. And it's something linguists don't have a fully satisfying answer for.
May 11, 2018 How the Rest of the World Lives, Organized by Income What does it look like when someone in Sweden brushes their teeth or when someone in Rwanda makes their bed? Anna Rosling Rönnlund wants all of us to find out, so she sent photographers to 264 homes in 50 countries (and counting!) to document the stoves, bed, toilets, toys and more in households from every income bracket around the world. See how families live in Latvia or Burkina Faso or Peru as Rosling Rönnlund explains the power of data visualization to help us better understand the world.
May 10, 2018 Why Harvey Weinstein is Not a Hyena When the allegations against Harvey Weinstein were revealed in October 2017, an opinion writer for The New York Times likened him to a hyena. Ironically, as zoologist Lucy Cooke reveals, the qualities of a hyena couldn’t be further from the nature of Weinstein’s sexual misconduct.
May 8, 2018 How the Modern World Makes Us Mentally Ill It's easy to blame ourselves for not feeling 100% in our minds, but some of the causes of mental unwellness have to do with large systemic problems in our societies, among these, an emphasis on individualism, a manic faith in Romantic love and a cult of meritocracy.
May 7, 2018 The Monopolization of America Robert Reich takes a take an in-depth look at antitrust laws in the United States and explains how corporate giants have come to dominate the American economy and politics.
May 4, 2018 Better Know: The Kiss by Gustav Klimt This kissing couple is one of the best loved paintings in history, but what do we really know about it? Let's learn about its creator (Gustav Klimt), the historical moment it sprang from (turn-of-the-century Austria), and what it means when we look at it today (dubious consent?).
May 3, 2018 Why You’re Probably Reading the Bible Wrong Religious scholar, pastor, and all-around fascinating guy Rob Bell thinks that most everyone teaching religious texts these days is teaching it wrong. It's a lot of parables and metaphors, he posits, and there's no way that people should be reading religious texts like the Bible or the Quran literally.
May 2, 2018 City Everywhere | Liam Young Liam Young is a speculative architect who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. He is cofounder of Tomorrows' Thoughts Today, an urban futures think tank, exploring the local and global implications of new technologies and Unknown Fields, a nomadic research studio that travels on expeditions to chronicle these emerging conditions as they occur on the ground.
