Ossian, Rude Bard of the North
Ossian once rivaled Homer in the Western literary canon. Whatever happened to him?
Politics on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane
A new collection of letters sheds light on the fraught relationship between Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter.
DNA Law and Order: Logging Edition
Illegal logging is pervasive across the globe, occurring anywhere there are exploitable forests. The resulting timber is illicitly traded and ...
A Short Primer on the Panama Papers
The so-called “Panama Papers” files released last weekend detail wide-spread tax-evasion among the world’s elites. From Russia to Iceland, ...
The Secret to Managing Millennials
Wondering how to manage a workplace full of Millennials? Turns out it's not so different from managing any age workers.
Is ‘Amadeus’ Worth Rewatching?
Archivists have finally located a long-lost co-production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, a find that ought ...
The Lonely City: What Past Artists Tell Us About the Present
What can we learn from Lonely City artists like David Wojnarowicz in our age of hyper-connectivity?
What “Colonial Kitchens” Say About America
We've been fantasizing about colonial kitchens since soon after the Colonial era itself was over. What's that about?
Invasive Species: Pro And Con
Are invasive species always bad? Maybe they aren’t, according to an increasingly common point of view among ecologists.
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