The Tactile Generation

from Vox How we lost our sense of touch Touchscreens made life frictionless. They also flattened our relationship with the physical world. by Sara Herschander Maria Montessori’s hands-on teaching methods remain popular today for many of the same reasons they took off...

The Closest Frontier

from New Scientist First new open-ocean subsea research habitat in 40 years launched The ocean floor is a vast source of potentially revolutionary scientific discovery – yet it remains largely inaccessible. For many marine scientists, they could only dream of living...

Hockney Gone

from the LA Times David Hockney, whose art celebrated sun-drenched Los Angeles, dead at 88 By Jessica Gelt and Barbara Isenberg David Hockney, the innovative and prolific British artist who arrived in Los Angeles in 1964, soon celebrating its sun-drenched life and...

Pacifica Pier Going

from Coastside News The Pacifica Pier is becoming an historic artifact before our very eyes by Chris Hunter What many people are only learning now, in addition to the official name of the pier, is that it was built to carry a sewer outflow pipe from the Sharp Park...

CODEX ATLANTICUS Completus

from artnet Leonardo’s ‘Codex Atlanticus’ Is Complete for the First Time in 400 Years The Galileo Museum’s Leonardotheka 2.0 reunites the artist’s landmark manuscript with the 550 pages a 16th-century sculptor cut from it. by Vittoria Benzine Leonardo da...

Donkeys Are The Therapeutic Balls

from AP Patients find help with therapy donkeys at psychiatric hospital near Paris BY  SYLVIE CORBET NEUILLY-SUR-MARNE, France (AP) — Therapy donkeys are helping patients with mental health conditions recover in a psychiatric hospital unit outside Paris that’s unique...