This partly serves as the reason why filmmakers and audiences remain drawn to the dramatized lives of artists, such as Ingrid Jonker, the poet at the heart of "Black Butterflies," as the subject matter allows the medium to penetrate both creator and creation.Jonker, a white Afrikaner, grew ...
In 1955, his articles on the murder and mutilation of 14-year-old Emmett Till and the acquittal of two white killers in Mississippi, and on the Montgomery bus boycott sparked by Rosa Parks’s refusal to give up her seat — major events that catalyzed the civil rights movement — were amon...
Vera Rubin, “Mother of Dark Matter,” Dies The holidays brought sad news to astronomers across the world after they learned that Vera Rubin, whose pioneering work led to the confirmation of dark matter, passed away. Read more… The Year 2016 Will Be One Second Longer Ring in the New Year...
Maxim's debacle, when Clement Ader's bat-winged L'Eole rose twelve inches off the ground in a "flight" of possibly 165 feet. But Ader's achievement was not in the same league as the historic Wright flight of 1903, no matter what French enthusiasts, then and now, may claim about it....