Sarah McFallsThe Addams Family The Many Shades of Wednesday AddamsThe New York Times - By DEVIN FULLERTwenty-six years after their last big-screen outing, the Addams Family is back in theaters. And yes, still creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky (now also digitally animated). The family, created by the
Sarah McFallsClimate Indigenous farming practices failing as climate change disrupts seasonsNational Geographic - Peter SchwartzsteinFarmers around the world rely on millennia-old wisdom to guide their planting. Scrambled weather and seasons are forcing them into uncharted territory. When snake weed blooms in the spring, they know in
Sarah McFallsInuit How millennial Inuit sparked a musical movementNational Geographic - By Brian Barth and Matt WilliamsInspired by traditional throat singing and contemporary artists, these musicians offer a modern take on Inuit life. On April 1, 1999, the world’s attention turned briefly to the Arctic village of Iqaluit.
Sarah McFallsCapitalism Marc Benioff: We Need a New CapitalismThe New York TimesOver the past 20 years, the company that I co-founded, Salesforce, has generated billions in profits and made me a very wealthy person. I have been fortunate to live a life beyond the wildest imaginations
Sarah McFallsTechnology (India) These algae tiles can turn any building into a pollution-scrubbing machineFast Company - Evan Nicole BrownThanks to algae’s natural talent for sucking pollutants and toxins out of water, the tiles offer a passive, accessible way to clean wastewater. The aquatic plants referred to as algae are single-celled,
Sarah McFallsRembrandt Is this the first time sex was depicted in art?BBC Culture - By Kelly GrovierIn the first of our new series The Art of Feeling, Kelly Grovier explores the history of love in painting and sculpture – from a crude prehistoric valentine to a chiselled canoodle. It’s complicated. that
Sarah McFallsIndigenous Peoples Tribal Map of America Shows Whose Land You're Actually Living OnPopular Mechanics - By David GrossmanAs more and more communities recognize October 14th as Indigenous People's Day, the question of how best to celebrate indigenous people arises. A good first step is learning about which tribes resided
Sarah McFallsFBI Active listening lessons from FBI negotiators that will get you what you wantLadders - Thomas Oppong In any negotiation, people want two things out of the conversation — to get what they want and still walk away with the relationship intact.The good …
Sarah McFallsDiabetesFalse assumptions and fixed mindsets are the root issues behind our diabetes problem. Will the new nutrition labels fix Ianchannelnewsasia.com - Ian Tan Singapore will be the first country in the world to ban advertisements of pre-packaged drinks with high sugar content, and it is also making …
Sarah McFallsSamurai Yasuke: The mysterious African samuraiBBC News - Naima MohamudAlmost 500 years ago, a tall African man arrived in Japan. He would go on to become the first foreign-born man to achieve the status of a samurai warrior, and is the subject of two films being produced
Sarah McFallsAztec Empire Mexico City’s secret underground worldBBC Travel - By Susannah RiggHidden mere metres under the modern capital, a series of temples, palaces and mysterious artefacts from an ancient kingdom are being unearthed. As we descended 7m below Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral,
Sarah McFallsCulture What Does a Fragonard Smell Like?Garage Magazine - Nadja SayejFrench perfume brand Buly 1803's new collaboration with the Louvre (yes, the Louvre), has the answer. The Louvre is where you go to see art—not smell it. But that recently changed. The Paris museum is
Sarah McFallsParenting Helicopter parenting and bulldozer parenting are bad for everyone — including parentsNBC News - Meagan FrancisParents: It’s time to reclaim our roles, and confidence, as the arbiters of what’s important to us when it comes to our kids’ educations. If you’re like many parents, sometime in the last month or so gave
Sarah McFallsWalt Disney World Resort Mouse whisperers: meet the Disney influencers making a living at the Magic KingdomThe Guardian - Amelia TaitWhen she was living in New York City, AJ Wolfe would read guidebooks about Walt Disney World on her way to work. Wolfe used the books to “escape from real life” on her commute. Fifteen years later, she
Sarah McFallsCollege & University The 'Glass Floor' Is Keeping America's Richest Idiots At The TopHuffPost - Michael HobbesElites are finding more ways to ensure that their children never run out of chances to fail. In 2014, Zach Dell launched a dating app called Thread. It was nearly identical to Tinder: Users created a uploaded
Sarah McFallsKurdistan Kurds: A stateless people across four countriesnst.com.my - AFP PARIS: The Kurds are a non-Arab ethnic group of between 25 and 35 million people spread mainly across Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey but without a …
Sarah McFallsMarvel Entertainment Tim Robbins Defends Howard the Duck, Calls It First Film of Marvel Universecomicbook.com - Jamie Lovett Howard the Duck is hardly the best-loved movie based on a Marvel Comics character, but it was the first, and star Tim Robbins still thinks there’s …
Sarah McFallsNews (China)Inside China’s sex trade: seduction, sympathy, survival, and pride in ‘emotional labour’ – prostitutes and their clientsSouth China Morning Post - Mike Cormack China’s Commercial Sexscapes, by Eileen Yuk-ha Tsang, University of Toronto Press, 3.5 starsProstitution may officially be outlawed in mainland …
Sarah McFallsWynne Why mathematicians just can’t quit their blackboardsThe Guardian - Nicola DavisAnother year, another wave of students trampling across autumn leaves, making their way to their first lectures heady with a cocktail of excitement, apprehension and a nasty hangover. But while every brings
Sarah McFallsHarvey Weinstein The day I confronted Harvey Weinstein: ‘He said, "You think you can save everyone"’The Guardian - Ronan FarrowBy the end, Weinstein sounded resigned. Several times, he conceded we’d been fair and that he 'deserved' a lot of it By fall 2017, I had taken my story to the New Yorker. As the investigation moved closer
Sarah McFallsCulture How to protect your books with medieval cursesVoxWelcome to Vox’s weekly book link roundup, a curated selection of the internet’s best writing on books and related subjects. This week’s edition is a little longer than usual, because it will have to you
Sarah McFallsHawaii Why your visits to Lanai and Molokai will be very different from each otherLos Angeles Times - Jim ByersOn Lanai, they’re putting the finishing touches on a multimillion-dollar remake of the old Four Seasons Lodge at Koele, which is being turned into a sumptuous spa and wellness retreat. Its sister hotel,
Sarah McFallsBooks The Novel That Introduced Soviet Jews to Their Forgotten Historyhaaretz.com - Liza Rozovsky A year ago, I was asked to choose and write a few words about any book that had influenced me profoundly. As I browsed feverishly through my mental …
Sarah McFallsDebbie Harry Debbie Harry Stares BackThe Atlantic - Spencer KornhaberThe Blondie singer’s memoir, Face It, wryly recounts making the most of being ogled. After speeding through Debbie Harry’s eventful life in just 245 pages, the Blondie singer’s memoir, Face It, in its
Sarah McFallsHumanity Babies Who Are Cuddled More Seem to Have Their Genetics Altered For Years AfterwardsScienceAlert - David Nield The amount of close and comforting contact that young infants get doesn't just keep them warm, snug, and loved. A 2017 study says it can actually …
Sarah McFallsBusiness Why are these L.A. people sleeping in stacked pods? It’s not just the cost of housingLos Angeles Times - TwitterThe other evening, I visited Eddy, a new co-living complex in Hollywood. Tucked away on a residential block that used to be all bungalows, it has the styling of a hip boutique hotel. People carry branded
Sarah McFallsNRA Someone at the NRA has been quietly editing Holocaust Denial articles on Wikipediaboingboing.net - Thom Dunn Molly Osberg and Dhruv Mehrotra at Splinter have done some great work tracing at least 150 Wikipedia edits back to IP addresses at the NRA …
Sarah McFallsPuberty Everything You Need to Know About Adrenarche: A Surge in Hormones That Happens Before PubertyParents Magazine - Catherine Ball If your 7- or 8-year-old has suddenly started acting moody and tearful, you're not alone. The changes in their behavior may be due to adrenarche, …
Sarah McFallsDatabases Why Knowledge Bases Are The Next Big ThingForbes - Kurt CagleThere is an intriguing fallacy (what I call the disconnected data fallacy) that seems pervasive in enterprise circles. It goes something like this: Most organizations are filled to bursting with databases,
