AFTER A 14-YEAR run, Gawker.com is shutting down next week. Gawker Media’s new owner, US Spanish-language TV network Univision, made the decision to shut down the site after bidding $135 million for the web publisher’s seven-site portfolio in a bankruptcy auction earlier this week. (A bankruptcy judge is set to approve the final sale later…
Helen Keller, rendered blind and deaf after an infection as a toddler, learned the gift of language from her patient and determined teacher, Annie Sullivan. Their story is told in the play The Miracle Worker (and my daughter plays Helen in three more shows this weekend at Latrobe’s Cabaret Theatre). As a young woman Helen Keller…
Similar:Today's 10 sq cm of #blender3d #steampunk control panel. #aesthetics #design #blender3dartAestheticsOn the way to closing night of "Orphans."PersonalWho left these on my office door? *fake cough sounds like “Betsy”*PersonalI just finished recalibrating the port scanner station and lookout post. If you need help … AestheticsI saw this Friday night. Great fight choreography, lighting &…
Business Insider calls this article an “anecdote… provided by linguist and cross-culture studies expert Richard Lewis.” The article provides several direct links to other works by Lewis, including an Amazon link for his book and an advertisement for the services he offers to businesses. The article makes many unsourced claims, and assumes that all Americans…
Similar:Coming of Age (TNG Rewatch: Season 1, Episode 18)Rewatching ST:TNG A character-heavy e…MediaMy 10yo Sings "Hopelessly Devoted to You"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq81GeqAY…PersonalJaw-dropping moments of insight and humanity. So funny, so edgy, so affirming! I did not e…PersonalMe loving my birthday truck, c. 1971. I adored this truck, and spellin…DesignI was briefly excited that Turnitin.com's new app works in…
Similar:Keeping it classy. My 20yo son encounters the fruit-eating scene from the 1996 point-and-c…PersonalA colleague bakes Irish soda bread to share on the Humanities floor every St Patrick's DayPersonalPeople with autism spectrum disorder avoid eye contact because it causes anxietyMy culture has taught me that eye contac…CultureFrisbee is a brand name, but how newsworthy is…
Similar:Combined, base color, roughness and metallic passes. #Blender3d steampunk control panel. AestheticsGetting in the Christmas spirit.PersonalFallout Monopoly with the boy. PersonalA student who is writing her research paper on Taylor Swift made a passing reference to Ka…PersonalI may have mentioned that I have a daughter who does things. @frontporchtheatricalsI may have mentioned that I have a…
Similar:My wonderful daughter.PersonalTrying something a bit different for today's 10 sq cm of #steampunk #blender3d control pan…AestheticsPlaying with depth of field (blurring details that are closer than and farther from the fo…AestheticsI accidentally did too much DuoLingo. I don't want to advance to the harder league. Come o…EducationYesterday my stack of unmarked assignments was about…
Trump offers plenty of opportunities for his detractors to criticize him. In the case of BabyGate, it does appear that the media were quick to spread an unflattering story without confirming some key facts. From a reporter seated one row behind the crying baby: “Mom and baby, very much not kicked out, came back to their seat a bit later. The baby was sucking a pacifier, silent.” There’s a little more to the story than the transcript and video suggest.
Kinetic Theatre‘s production was full of great twists that honor the source material while also smashing the fourth wall. (Carolyn has worked with all three cast members in PICT’s Great Expectations and/or Oliver Twist.) Similar:Books vs. Kindles: The Choice No One Made Ever”I bought a Kindle. I didn’t immediately…BooksEvery conversation between a parent and a child, in…
I’d rather blog about prepping my fall classes than actually start prepping my classes, so here you go. I don’t spend much time on the syllabus on the first day, though I do show students where key topics are, and I do assign a take-home syllabus quiz. (“If Gus Griffin tells you he’s worried about…
We spent Sunday afternoon at the Sadecky’s Puppets studio/workshop in Tarentum, Pa. Carolyn recorded an audio track for a musical adaptation of “Heidi,” to be synced with performances of live puppeteers touring across 9 states during the coming school year. Mr. Sadecky, who has been performing with his puppets since the early 80s, was charming…
Americans are more worried than enthusiastic about using gene editing, brain chip implants and synthetic blood to change human capabilities. Majorities of U.S. adults say they would be “very” or “somewhat” worried about gene editing (68%), brain chips (69%) and synthetic blood (63%), while no more than half say they would be enthusiastic about each…
If we’re all going to be disagreeing more, we should be careful to do it well. What does it mean to disagree well? Most readers can tell the difference between mere name-calling and a carefully reasoned refutation, but I think it would help to put names on the intermediate stages. So here’s an attempt at…
Similar:You may move your tassels from right to left. #classof2017 PersonalThe Naked Now (Season 1, Episode 2: ST:TNG Rewatch) When a script that blows chunks makes …With a large ensemble, we saw many scene…CultureSHU Community Lines Up to Honor JoAnne Boyle's Final Trip Up the HillJoAnne Boyle liked talking about traditi…AcademiaFind yourself someone who makes you…
The teen summer camp production of Les Miserables runs at the Palace Theatre Friday at 8:30, Saturday at 2pm, and Saturday at 8:30. Similar:Coronavirus: advice from the Middle Ages for how to cope with self-isolationLike many people, I curate my social med…Culture"Jewish priests do this. It's where Leonard Nimoy got the Vulcan sign," says the…
Long before the Apple ad, and Michael Radford’s 1984 film version of Nineteen Eighty-Four, there was the 1949 radio drama above. Starring British great David Niven, with intermission commentary by author James Hilton, the show aired on the educational radio series NBC University Theater. —Open Culture Similar:Any pasta can become a pasta salad when the…
I’ve only glanced at TextureWriter, but already I wish I had seen it two months ago, so that I could have incorporated it into my online “Digital Storytelling” class. (I’ll use it this fall, though.) Similar:Jane Eyre and the Invention of the SelfThose who remember Jane Eyre solely as r…BooksTwitter and the "Two Minutes Hate"Another of the many,…
Midsummer closes tonight, July 23. My daughter is playing Puck. Jim’s makeup is wonderful. Similar:First time visiting the Point. Listening to Quantum's 10 for 21 (audio adaptation of the D…My first time visiting the Point. Listen…CultureHow a billionaires boys’ club came to dominate the public squareThe world’s richest man, Elon Musk, atta…BusinessThe Cabaret Theatre (Latrobe)…
Similar:So peaceful and majestic. Another outing with my son.PersonalMany things in the world are awful right now but my latest section of a #neovictorian them…AestheticsLecturing is So Much Easier than Leading a DiscussionLecturing is So Much Easier than Leading…AcademiaI had a blue checked shirt in my hand this morning, but she nailed the khaki…