AvatarRick Timmer4 days agoKahlil Gibran: Godfather of the “New Age”JSTOR Daily - Gus MitchellPublished in 1923, The Prophet became a perpetual best-seller, birthed a genre, and marked the poet as retrograde, sentimental, and florid. The icon …
AvatarRick Timmer5 days agoThe Horror Stories of Black Hairverified_publisherThe Atlantic - Hannah GiorgisThe Hulu series The Other Black Girl dramatizes the pains of managing Afro-textured hair—and other people’s perceptions of it. In the 1989 surrealist satire Chameleon Street, two Black men bicker after one says that he prefers women with light skin and “good hair.” After being criticized for the …
AvatarRick TimmerSep 24How Does Language Influence Cultural Norms and Values?Medium - NDMANTHROHow does language influence cultural norms and values? Imagine you’re visiting Japan, and you notice the frequent use of honorifics like “san” or …
AvatarRick TimmerSep 23AP PHOTOS: In the warming Alps, Austria's melting glaciers are in their final decadesAssociated Press - MATTHIAS SCHRADERJAMTALFERNER GLACIER, Austria (AP) — High up on an Alpine ridge beneath a ceiling of ice, water drips from above into a cave formed by the slowly shrinking Jamtalferner glacier. In just a few years, Jamtalferner will be gone, and in a few decades, so might the rest of Austria’s glaciers as …
AvatarRick TimmerSep 22Neo-Nazi Fight Clubs Are Growing Rapidly, New Research Showsverified_publisherVICE - Mack LamoureuxA new report shared with VICE News outlines the massive growth so-called Active Clubs, neo-Nazi fitness and fight clubs, have experienced in both the United States and internationally. Active Clubs—neo-Nazi clubs that focus on fitness and martial arts training—are growing at a rapid pace and not …
AvatarRick TimmerJewish couple has been married for 91 years, have 64 grandchildren and they are still deeply in loveupworthy.com - Sethuraman SThey survived persecution and poverty to start a life of their own and today, they have 64 grandchildren. Editor's Note: This article was originally …
