Chalk this up to things not widely known: America's first female mortician, Henrietta Duterte, turned her house into a stop on the Underground Railroad and used coffins to smuggle fugitives across Pennsylvania. From an essay about Duterte by novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge: At 14, my deepest desire was to
In case you need a music break: here's Nahre Sol improvising "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in the style of different composers, from Chopin to Glass.
TMN favorite Tiffany Haddish became the first black woman standup to host Saturday Night Live. A solid show included this skit where Haddish plays the enlightened video game character Boo Boo Jeffries, who knows it takes much more than winning to win.
A five-year study of online news chatter confirms that people’s opinions can shift to fit news outlets' ideologies. 1/17 All those "Trump country" articles won't predict election outcomes; they only reflect our current political state. 2/17 “Look even further into the
Here is the only surviving footage from John Coltrane's first and only live performance of "A Love Supreme" on July 26, 1965.
White House says Trump and Putin won’t meet officially in Vietnam. Putin’s staff says they’ll meet “on the sidelines.” 1/20 Profiles of six new stars in the Democratic party, who were inspired by Mr. Trump to run for office and won big this week. 2/20
In case the vile news about Louis CK and Roy Moore is too much to stomach, here's a nice, short ski film from the crew at WRKSHRT about Scotland's "right to roam"—the Scottish outdoor access code that provides public access to pretty much
A brief meditative moment: watching this man paint parking lot signs with such assurance.
From "The Chopping Board Economist," whose videos explains basic concepts of economics in relation to food: a wedding goulash and other food-inspired examples show why governments limit trade "and how it hurts the most vulnerable."
Your daily experimental animated short film to help make sense of our warring world: Sasha Svirsky's Tanzonk.
