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Dark Night Of The Perseids

from Pioneer Press Sky Watch: This year’s Perseid meteor shower should impress By Mike Lynch One of the best meteor showers of the year will light up the night sky this week. The Perseid meteor shower will peak Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, but the meteor viewing should be pretty good most of the […]

Amen, Adam Weinberg

from The Huffington Post 6 Tips for Getting the Most from a Liberal Arts College by Adam Weinberg  – President, Denison University In just a few weeks, thousands of students will go off to a residential liberal arts college, including two of my own children. So what does success look like at college? Why are […]

Is this a Graffix which I see before me, The chalice toward my hand? Come, let me toke thee.

from CBS DC To Smoke Or Not To Smoke: Scientist Says William Shakespeare Used Marijuana A South African researcher says traces of cannabis were found in fragments of clay pipes discovered in William Shakespeare’s garden. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) LONDON (CBSDC) – The man who wrote Hamlet and MacBeth may have been enjoying some Midsummer […]

Oliver Sacks’ Heart-wrenching Goodbye

from The New York Times Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table By OLIVER SACKS Aidan Koch I LOOK forward eagerly, almost greedily, to the weekly arrival of journals like Nature and Science, and turn at once to articles on the physical sciences — not, as perhaps I should, to articles on biology and medicine. It was […]

World’s Greatest Diver Gone

from The New Yorker The Disappearance of the World’s Greatest Free Diver By Alec Wilkinson Natalia Molchanova, pictured here in 2005, trained like an old-school Soviet athlete, but her voice was full of laughter and even joy. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY JACQUES MUNCH / AFP / GETTY It seems clear that the great free diver Natalia […]

Suicide By Shakespeare

from The Wall Street Journal The Suicide of the Liberal Arts Indoctrinating students isn’t the same as teaching them. Homer and Shakespeare have much to tell us about how to think and how to live. By John Agresto ‘Achilles Slays Hector,’ by Peter Paul Rubens, circa 1630. Photo: Art Resource I was a few minutes […]

Another Hero Dog

from NBC10 Service Dog Saves Blind Owner’s Life During House Fire By David Chang A service dog is being hailed a hero after she jumped into action and saved her blind owner’s life by alerting authorities to a house fire in Philadelphia Thursday morning. The fire started inside Maria Colon’s home on the 4300 block […]

Alex Morgan Aiming To Change Attitudes With THE KICKS

from VICE SPORTS Alex Morgan Hopes Her TV Show Changes Attitudes About Women Athletes by Maggie Mertens U.S. women’s national team and Portland Thorns star forward Alex Morgan and her teammates have been appearing on red carpets, late-night talk shows, and celebrations around the country in what appears to be a sea change of sorts […]

Ingrid Sischy Gone

from Vanity Fair Ingrid Sischy: An Appreciation by Graydon Carter Photograph by Gasper Tringale. As the art and fashion worlds mourn the loss of a beloved original, Vanity Fair’s Editor recalls Sischy’s genius for mixing the pleasure of friendship with the business of truth-telling. Ingrid Sischy, the writer and critic, died today in New York. […]

I don’t know, people – it seems like the sharks are really pissed off at us right now.