Wes Craven Gone

from TIME Wes Craven, Creator of the Nightmare on Elm Street Movies, Dies Aged 76 by Rishi Iyengar Acclaimed Hollywood horror maestro Wes Craven, director of classics like the Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream movie series, died on Sunday in his Los Angeles home. The...

Dr. Oliver Sacks Gone

from The New Yorker Oliver Sacks, the Doctor By Jerome Groopman PHOTOGRAPH BY CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON / MAGNUM Oliver Sacks, a dear colleague of mine at The New Yorker and in the world of medicine, was an inspiration to me and to countless physicians. A great deal will...

Whew! I didn’t waste those four years after all.

from The Washington Post Tech companies are hiring more liberal-arts majors than you think By Brian Fung (Mark Lennihan / AP) Silicon Valley has a reputation for being filled with egghead coders who popped out of college as brilliant engineers (or who never finished...