by | Apr 6, 2016 | Culture Music Art
from Fox News Merle Haggard dead on his 79th birthday Country music legend Merle Haggard, who was known for hits like “Okie From Muskogee” and “Mama Tried,” died on his 79th birthday. Haggard’s manager, Frank Mull, said the country icon...
by | Apr 5, 2016 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Times Why Mapplethorpe Still Matters By HOLLAND COTTER LOS ANGELES — In a midcareer self-portrait, Robert Mapplethorpe depicted himself as a devil, with a bullwhip for a tail. But he ended up on the side of the angels. In 1989, a traveling survey of...
by | Apr 4, 2016 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from the Richmond Times-Dispatch My Life: Imparting life lessons among 10th-grade teacher’s favorite tasks by Christina Grande CHRISTINA GRANDE When I was in third grade, I dressed up as a teacher for Halloween. My mom sprayed my jet-black hair gray (with...
by | Apr 2, 2016 | Culture Music Art
from WIRED Superstar Architect Zaha Hadid Is Dead at 65 Zahad Hadid in her London office in 1985. CHRISTOPHER PILLITZ/GETTY IMAGES ZAHA HADID, ONE of architecture’s biggest stars, has passed away at age 65. According to the website of the Iraqi-born, London-based...
by | Mar 29, 2016 | Culture Music Art
from The Guardian Science and superheroes: how close are we to creating real superpowers? As Marvel’s Deadpool hits screens we ask: with three out of five fictional superheroes owing their powers to science, will we ever have real superpowers? by Damien Walter...
by | Mar 26, 2016 | Culture Music Art
from Quanta Magazine Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers seems to violate a longstanding assumption about how they behave. By Erica Klarreich Zim + Teemo for Quanta Magazine Two mathematicians have uncovered a...
