Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. This story emerged before we published last week’s breifing. So, this week, we trace the history of “the dress” and remember how a debate took over the Internet: Between 6pm […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Art’s role in politics: What responsibility does the artist have to society? Speaking at Amherst College in 1963, John F. Kennedy gave one answer to that perpetually nagging question. For […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. The “joyful, gossipy, and absurd” life of Virginia Woolf, a biography: “I caused some slight argument with Leonard this morning by trying to cook my breakfast in bed. I believe, […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. The Internet pokes fun at Brian Williams with—yes, you guessed it—memes: The most astute reaction to news anchor Brian Williams’s claim that he “misremembered” being present inside a US Army […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. The FCC has spoken. They will propose regulating broadband like a utility: As part of its 2015 Broadband Progress Report, the Federal Communications Commission has voted to change the definition […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Wikipedia bans some editors from gender-related articles: Wikipedia’s arbitration committee, the highest user-run body on the site, has voted to ban a number of editors from making corrections to articles […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Martin Luther King, Jr., tells a joke on The Tonight Show: OK, it’s not a good joke, but the man was busy. It was Feb. 8, 1968, and Martin Luther […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. A story about the town without wi-fi: The residents of Green Bank, West Virginia, can’t use cell phones, wi-fi, or other kinds of modern technology due to a high-tech government […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye the past week. Terry Eagleton on the death of universities: Are the humanities about to disappear from our universities? The question is absurd. It would be like asking whether alcohol is about to disappear […]