FOLK SINGING Anything called a hootenanny ought to be shot on sight, but the whole country is having one. A hootenanny is to folk singing what a jam session is to jazz and all over the U.S
Folk Singing: Sibyl with Guitar
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Tastes Like Chicken: The Quest for Fake Meat
The desire to eat meat has posed an ethical question ever since humans achieved reliable crop production: Do we really need to kill animals to live?
Why Falling Off the Wagon Isn’t Fatal
The cover of the January 2009 issue of O magazine says it all: “How Did I Let This Happen Again?” A photo of Oprah Winfrey at her current weight of 200 lb. is juxtaposed with an image of her formerly slender self
Employee Diversity Training Doesn’t Work
Some decades ago, the powers that be declared that employee diversity was a good thing, as desirable as double-digit profit margins.
Ghostwriter
Barack Obama’s autopen does not sleep.
Top Obama Economic Adviser to Leave
The White House says Austan Goolsbee, a longtime adviser to President Barack Obama, will resign his post as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers this summer to return to teaching at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Goolsbee has been the face of the White House on economic news, and is a regular every first Friday of the month explaining the administration’s take on the latest jobless numbers
Now What?
In her May 25 “class day” speech to graduating seniors at Harvard, comedian Amy Poehler joked that postcollege life is like “a heist that requires good drivers, an explosives expert, a hot girl who doubles as a master of disguise.” The line got some chuckles, but it also struck a nerve.
Yale Lab Tech Gets 44 Years for Murder
A former animal research technician was sentenced Friday to 44 years in prison for killing a Yale University graduate student days before her wedding in 2009 after anguished relatives described how plans to celebrate her marriage suddenly turned to unimaginable grief as they returned home with her in a coffin.
What’s Behind Thailand’s Lèse Majesté Crackdown?
In Thailand it’s often referred to, usually in hushed tones, as “the institution.” In a land where the holy trinity consists of nation, religion and king, talking about the monarchy, except in terms of adulation, can be risky business. Political activists, university professors, webmasters and now even a U.S
Study: TV May Perpetuate Race Bias
Most people regard watching television as a passive activity. You sit, you watch.