Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Tag: Culture
09/20/2021
Australia’s Fraser Island Reclaims K’gari, Its Original Indigenous Name
A tourist hot spot off the coast of Australia, Fraser Island, will once again be known as K'gari, its original Indigenous name, the Queensland government announced.
09/09/2021
What Could Go Right? Adios to Spain’s last coal mine
India gives us the world’s first DNA vaccine, Mexico decriminalizes abortion, and are US hospitals overcrowded from ivermectin cases?
08/31/2021
Op-ed: Cubs and Muslim leader nurture grace, understanding at crosstown series
He continued: “We gather in the way that the human family was gathered in the heavens by the Creator before he sent us, his highest creation, to Earth, to steward his creation.” So began Rami’s beautiful khutba, a sermon that accompanies Muslim congregational prayers, in a most remarkable place: a Wrigley Field conference room on the first day of this summer’s crosstown series against the White Sox.
08/27/2021
Mind The Age Gap – Why the War of the Generations is a myth
Does the year we were born really shape us people? Are Gen X Snowflakes really battling Baby Boomers in an intergenerational war?
08/05/2021
Mattel’s Barbie Turns Women Of Science, Including COVID Vaccine Developer, Into Dolls
British vaccinologist Sarah Gilbert now has a new accolade: It's a one-of-a-kind Barbie doll made in her image.
08/03/2021
Iraq Reclaims 17,000 Looted Artifacts, Its Biggest-Ever Repatriation
The cuneiform tablets and other objects had been held by the Museum of the Bible, founded by the family that owns the Hobby Lobby craft store chain, and by Cornell University.
07/20/2021
After the Burning
The University of Mosul’s library, once home to over one million titles, was destroyed in war. Now, book by book, the library is being rebuilt.
07/02/2021
Opinion: Remember the Bicentennial? Celebrating might be even harder for America’s 250th birthday.
“You’ll remember this day forever,” my mother said. It was July 4, 1976, the morning of the Bicentennial. “What am I going to remember?” I asked her. “The meaning of freedom!” she said, her eyes misting as they often did when my mother — an immigrant from Germany — spoke about her adopted country.
07/03/2021
Celebrating Kampung Singapura and Global Singapore
Despite the tensions that arise occasionally, the symbiotic synergy between the two identities is what makes Singapore truly special.
06/29/2021
It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way: Rethinking Today’s Capitalism
Just because the capitalism we have now is risky and rapacious doesn't mean that we can't change it for the better—with the help of some lessons from the past.
06/15/2021
Free the wrinkle
The pandemic could help Americans finally embrace aging skin.
06/12/2021