This is America. When did we become afraid of one man? We cannot allow our fears to hold us back any longer. Native organizers and activists are ready to battle Trump on every front—in many ways thanks to the massive national Native American protest networking event that was the
Childhood is fertile terrain for the genre of horror, as Stephen King explains in the 1989 interview featured in this video. Via Aeon.
A dispatch from "First Ladyland," Melania Trump's Slovenian hometown.
As liberal as we are, we do like reading things that don’t necessarily carry water for the White House, but shade in some blank spots. 1. “How disorderly is Sweden really?”, Marginal Revolution / Marginal Revolution 2. Bill Maher takes credit (not convincingly) for Milo Yiannopoulos’s downfall, New York
Witness the McGurk effect, discovered when psychologist Harry McGurk thought he heard “da” after watching a video in which the sound “ba” was dubbed over a girl’s lips saying “ga.” Forty years later, scientists have demonstrated this effect in thousands of studies, in infants and adults, in different languages,
In advance of a full repeal, Trump’s FCC is undermining net neutrality. The FCC will have to vote, but with the board’s two top Democrats gone, it’s almost a foregone conclusion that net neutrality’s days are numbered. They’ve already dropped inquiries into the practice of
Walt Whitman’s Life and Adventures of Jack Engle, an early, unpublished novel that’s been “lost” for 165 years, is available online and in book form. / ir.uiowa.edu, uipress.uiowa.edu An interesting Q&A with photographer John Feely, who traveled through Mongolia in 2014 and came
The Attica prison uprising lasted five days. It took 45 years to get a more or less complete public account of what transpired—and only thanks to the efforts of a few heroically stubborn people.
From a favorite series, "Under the Dock," meet "one of the most fearsome predators on the British Columbia coast," the sunflower sea star.
McCain stands up against Trump, also still says Palin was worth it. John McCain, self-proclaimed maverick that he is, is the leading Republican in the Senate to take a reasonable stance on many of the batshit things done by the Trump administration. Though a questionable tidbit from a profile
