“Lucien Freud said if you’re painting humans you have the best subject matter in the world. It’s so true. That’s the concept of [my] work. Everything has humanity in it,” […]
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When things change dramatically we resist it at first and then we adapt and then we love the change.
Google has always been alert to the danger of advertising and even accepting advertising at all because it might corrupt or lead the people running the search engine to want to corrupt the results in favor of advertisers.
It’s the morning of Wednesday, 13 September 1939. In an America supremely at peace, newspapers hit front lawns with headlines screaming of war. The horrific conflict splashed across the front […]
I just came to realize that what we got involved in and what I had been supporting was turning education into a desiccated, data-driven, anti-human activity and this would not encourage the love of learning.
There’s a kind of hostility to teachers that underlines the current corporate reform narrative.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”—truer (and more gender, class, and race specific) words were never written by a group of rich, white, […]
Churches can create the context in which sociability can be made safe and expressed.
How do I want to put some measurements for myself to see if I can channel my periods of creativity more effectively?
China is in full gears to becoming a cultural superpower, and its 400 million micro-bloggershave a huge stake in creating the future society.
Have you seen the Chipotle Grill animated video “The Scarecrow”? More than four million people have, since it was first published last week. It’s a cry against unsustainable industrial […]
If you thought that random samples of your DNA collected in public spaces could never be used as part of a futuristic genetic surveillance program, think again. In what has […]
“What we’re seeing here, this guy is the Leonardo da Vinci—the Albert Einstein—of tennis.”
Liberty-minded Americans wonder when and if their countrymen will say, “enough is enough.”
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, as part of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, released a report saying that menthol cigarettes likely pose a greater public health risk […]
Americans should be aware that sugars subtly creep into their diets through fruit juices, caffeinated beverages, sweetened breakfast foods, and especially sodas. They can, and do, add up.
You’ve undoubtedly heard the maxim “Life finds a way.” Well, if life has indeed found a way on one of the other trillions of planets in our Milky Way Galaxy, it would likely not be our way.
If just stay on the same pathway every single day that’s going to be a pretty predictable pathway of what you’re going down now.
Big Data is a phenomenon that’s impacting just about every business these days.
Thomas Jefferson is known as the author of the Declaration of Independence, and the articulator of the separation of church and state. These high profile accomplishments tend to overshadow his […]
Someone might say—and libertarians skeptics often do—that classes in philosophy and literature are given a quite an arbitrarily inflated value by according them credit. Do away with the credit system […]
Participants at a recent two-day event at Stanford University followed the hackathon model to come up with business solutions in the growing field of food innovation.
So I’ve been criticized for saying that our country is, more than ever, a meritocracy based on productivity. One of the threaders, in fact, said we’re a plutocracy based in […]
While it seems plausible that one or both of Christie and Paul will run for president in 2016, their prospects for success are less significant than the philosophy each man represents.
One company intends to shake things up by making images of our world’s surface available to all.
The world of Iron Man may be closer to being a reality than we originally thought. A group of design students at the Royal College of Art in London recently created […]
On the question of whether or not black people can swim the answer is yes, no and maybe. I asked the question in my book of a very special panel. […]
The Vatican recently announced that following World Youth Day events on broadcast or social media can count towards a length reduction…but only if it’s accompanied by “requisite devotion.”
I had found a new way to express myself, and it was with words.
Every teacher is obligated to devote teaching time to direct test prep.