Shipwrecks Coping Strategies of Ocean Castaways Hold Lessons for the COVID Pandemic scientificamerican.com - Luc-Christophe Guillerm On April 14, 2002, while routinely patrolling the Indian Ocean, a French Navy vessel spotted a dinghy with two passengers onboard. They had been …
Climate Why some detractors say Earth is not in crisis, and why that drives most climate scientists crazy deseret.com - Amy Joi O'Donoghue Utah author Bill Pekny wrote a book with 13 chapters describing climate change, full of charts, colorful graphics and “key takeaways” after each …
VICEArgentina Hedonistic pictures of Barcelona’s queer underworld verified_publisherVICE - i-DArgentinian photographer Leo Adef has spent four years capturing the Spanish city’s LGBT+ community. Topless queer men light spliffs on the beach. A trans man injects testosterone on the toilet. Drag nonchalantly...
Fast CompanyBooks This clever children’s book uses interactive data visualizations to explain the universe verified_publisherFast Company - By Mark WilsonFrom microbes to the power of gravity, the new book “I am a book. I am a portal to the universe.” will help your kids wrap their heads around their own existence. “Touch this dot,” the text reads. So touch...
Memoirs 9 Emotionally Devastating Mental Illness Graphic Memoirs bookriot.com - Ashley Holstrom One of my favorite combinations of format and topic is mental illness and graphic memoir. The best way to get inside someone’s head, to really see …
God What's God Got to Do With Michio Kaku's New Book, The God Equation? thestranger.com - Charles Mudede The God Equation is a new and short book by the theoretical physicist and science popularizer Michio Kaku. It's not his best book, but it does raise …
New York PostHunter Biden Hunter Biden’s drug- and sex-fueled memoir is a big fat flop New York Post - By Emily Jacobs Hunter Biden’s newly released autobiography has tanked in its first week of sales despite heavy media promotion of its sex-and-drugs content — and …
Undark MagazinePhysics Book Review: A Cosmologist Throws Light on a Universe of Bias verified_publisherUndark Magazine - Joshua Roebke In “The Disordered Cosmos,” Chanda Prescod-Weinstein contemplates the exclusionary culture of physics. Every community guards a creation story, a …
Paganism The ancient propaganda war that led to the triumph of Christianity independent.co.uk - David Keys ew historical research is shedding fresh light on the birth of Christianity as a major religion. Although Christianity had existed since the mid-first …
The GuardianBooks Lech Blaine on Car Crash and survivor’s guilt: ‘It’s just a book. I can’t bring them back to life’ verified_publisherThe Guardian - Rick MortonHe survived the accident with scarcely a scratch. The other boys didn’t. It is this singular moment, the tragedy that anchors Lech Blaine’s debut Car Crash, that makes him a constant traveller “tugged...
Books The Best Books of the Year (So Far) vulture.com - Hillary Kelly The book business has hurried back up to its normal speed after 2020’s hitches, and the slate for 2021 — of fiction and nonfiction alike — is …
Jeff Bezos Here’s why Jeff Bezos quoted a 1986 book about human evolution in his shareholders letter geekwire.com - Mike Lewis The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins’ bestselling 1986 book that skewers the notion of intelligent design while celebrating the rational science of …
The TelegraphBritish Royal Family Gyles Brandreth was Prince Philip's Boswell – and this intimate biography is a sparkling celebration The Telegraph - By Jake KerridgeThe juiciest bits of gossip will be familiar, but Gyles Brandreth, a born entertainer, delivers a portrait that will be hard to beat for wit The most interesting revelation in this biography of the Duke...
United States Questlove Teaches American History via Playlist in the “Music Is History” Book stupiddope.com - LeVar Thomas Perhaps one of the most readily known music historians, The Roots drummer, best selling author, and Sundance Award winner, Questlove summons up his …
Next Big Idea ClubHappiness How to Add More Humor to Your Life, According to Two Stanford Professors Next Big Idea Club - Editors Humor is no laughing matter. It inspires innovation, strengthens relationships, disarms tension, and makes you seem better looking. Seriously. So why …
U.S. News & World ReportShooting of Breonna Taylor Post Hill Press Goes on With Book by Officer in Taylor Raid U.S. News & World Report - Associated Press By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The publisher of memoir by a Louisville police officer who fired at Breonna Taylor after being …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoIndia These are the 11 books in progress that the Rs 18-lakh New India Foundation fellowships will support scroll.in - Scroll Staff India is not known for funding literary projects in the making. There are – or were, before pandemic – several literary prizes, but these are or were …
Los Angeles TimesBooks Winners of the 2020 L.A. Times Book Prizes announced verified_publisherLos Angeles Times - Dorany PinedaThe Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced during a virtual ceremony today. Among the winners in 14 categories were short story writer Deesha Philyaw, journalist Isabel Wilkerson, poet Victoria biographer...
Sharon Stone The Most Shocking Revelations From Sharon Stone's Book nickiswift.com - Brent Furdyk Sharon Stone's new memoir makes shocking revelations about everything from her infamous Basic Instinct scene to her serious health scares.
Books Autofiction is Cheating, and You Cannot Change My Mind bookriot.com - Sarah Hannah Gómez I can’t keep my house tidy, so people think I must be cool with messes. I’m not. I like rules and I like structure. I live and die by my Google …
Matthew McConaughey Larry Gatlin Reveals He's the Addict in Matthew McConaughey Book tasteofcountry.com - Sterling Whitaker He's "grateful" the story is out there.
Books Westbank librarian: Book clubs still a great way to meet others statesman.com - Maureen Turner Carey Maureen Turner Carey Let’s face it: it’s not always easy to make friends – especially while we’ve been staying home and social distancing. But one …
Nancy Reagan Nancy Reagan was secretly hooked on pills during Just Say No campaign dailymail.co.uk - Daniel Bates She was the face of the 'Just Say No' anti-drug campaign in the 1980s, but Nancy Reagan had a secret addiction to prescription pills, according to a …
Louisiana Beau Patrick Coulon’s ‘Revel & Revolt’ Redefines Punk Protest Photography observer.com - Teresa Xie Beau Patrick Coulon’s striking black and white photo, Baton Rouge Police Attack Alton Sterling Demo, centers a swarm of heavily geared law enforcement …
Alfred Hitchcock April’s Best Nonfiction Crime Books crimereads.com - CrimeReads CrimeReads editors select the month’s best new nonfiction crime books. *The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense By …
The New York TimesBooks 10 New Books We Recommend This Week verified_publisherThe New York TimesSome readers are waiting for the next installment in Robert Caro’s multivolume Lyndon Johnson biography as avidly as George R. R. Martin fans eager for “The Winds of Winter” to arrive at last. (Some, suppose,...
Nancy Pelosi Pelosi on power in DC: 'You have to seize it' thehill.com - Celine Castronuovo Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in an upcoming biography says that the biggest lesson she learned during her time in Washington, D.C., is that you …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoProstitution ‘Goddesses, Housewives Or Whores’: Women Of York By Claire Shaw yorkshiretimes.co.uk - Yorkshire Times ‘Goddesses, Housewives Or Whores’: Women Of York By Claire Shaw George VI famously said the history of York is the history of England. The prologue to …
OpioidsNonfiction Book Review: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe. Doubleday, $32.50... publishersweekly.com Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Patrick Radden Keefe. Doubleday, $32.50 (560p) ISBN 978-0-385-54568-6 More By and About This …
Lionsgate Craig Piligian to Lead Lionsgate TV Unscripted Division (Exclusive) verified_publisherhollywoodreporter.com - Lesley Goldberg The reality veteran has inked a new agreement with the company and will continue to serve as CEO and chair of Pilgrim Media Group in addition to …
