Reuters/Pilar Olivares Be dirty. Never mind the nasty habit of throwing garbage out of car windows — Brazilians are tidy people, who sometimes shower twice a day. Everyone is expected to change clothes daily, wash hands when coming in from the streets, and brush teeth after every meal (have you noticed Brazilian teeth?). So…
H has grabbed the country by the throat, with the low-budget likes of Paranormal Activity and The Purge regularly breaking into the box-office Top 10, while cable’s highest-rated drama, The Walking Dead, leads a crowded TV lineup of witches, vampires, and other ghoulish fare Down to the Morgan Library I bat-flew one afternoon to pay homage to Edgar Allan…
Rediscovering Richard Dawkins: An Interview by J.P. O’Malley Sep 23, 2013 He might be prone to controversial outbursts, but what does the world’s leading atheist and scientist really like to talk about? J.P. O’Malley visits Dawkins in his Oxford home to find out. Whenever Richard Dawkins’s name appears in the news nowadays, it’s usually for the wrong…
European masterpieces were on show, but also works by US artists, including Hartley’s, Still Life, No.1, 1912, which are often overlooked One of the most notorious cultural events of the 20th century, marking the dawn of America’s love affair with Modernism. And yet, as the Armory Show reaches its centenary, the full picture of…
ROME European Jet Set Hot Spot On a December morning, a group of young workers gathered along the via Veneto. The street that was the pulsating center of Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” was slowly waking up: hotels and offices opened their doors, people stopped by for breakfast. The group of workers entered Cafè…
Frontier fables Future Science: Essays from the Cutting Edge. Edited by Max Brockman. Vintage; 272 pages; $15.95. To be published in Britain in October by Oxford University Press; £9.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk BACK when the scientific method was a radical new idea, and when science was the preserve of wealthy (or well-sponsored) gentleman amateurs,…
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Congressman Anthony Weiner, Raging Hypocrite, Awful Art Critic Courtesy Kew Gardens History The statue of “The Triumph of Civic Virtue” in Kew Gardens, Queens Fascination with political sex scandals is unsettling The spectacle surrounding Rep. Anthony Weiner’s cybersex case feels like porn. Rep. Anthony Weiner’s constituents seem unruffled by his sexual antics. Maybe…