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The nature documentary series Our Planet opens with a startlingly stark observation courtesy of broadcaster, bi…

Westerners tend to think of Japan as a land of high-speed trains, expertly prepared sushi and ramen , auteur films , …

The word sophisticated may sound like praise today, but it originated as more of an accusation. Trace its etymo…

A quick final heads up: Coursera’s deal, which offers $200 off of Coursera Plus, ends in two days–February 1. If you’r…

There was a time in America, not so very long ago, when conventional wisdom discouraged immigrants from speaking…

The Codex Seraphinianus is not a medieval book; nor does it date from the Renaissance along with the codices of…

With the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT , which can generate essay after essay near-instantaneously from even the…

Late last year, Amazon announced AI Ready , a new initiative “designed to provide free AI skills training to 2 …

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?si=k7NS-uM-GjVkL0dP Oliver Hermanus’ latest film Living transplants the story of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru to po…

Everybody who’s been to a Tom Waits concert has stories to tell about it — no few of them heard straight from th…

From the Triton Fountain in the Piazza Barberini to the Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona, sculptor…

It’s winter, and we still have a ways to go. So maybe we could interest you in  a free knitting pattern that depicts …

Imagine, if you will, an evening’s entertainment consisting of an episode of Portlandia , a spin of Nirvana’s In…

Pliny the Younger may be best remembered for writing the only eye-witness account of the destruction of Pompeii…

Image via Wikimedia Commons A quick heads up: On Monday, Stanford Continuing Studies will kick off an online course c…

In 1966, Paul McCartney famously sang of “all the lonely people,” wondering aloud where they come from. Nearly s…