At my lowest point - out of work and scared, I wrote an essay about what it was like to land here in my fifties.That essay led to a book and a TED talk with hundreds of thousands of you responding, “me too.” A littleabout me Read More Thriving in Place together The starting po...
What makes our bodies age ... our skin wrinkle, our hair turn white, our immune systems weaken? Biologist Elizabeth Blackburn shares a Nobel Prize for her work finding out the answer, with the discovery of telomerase: an enzyme that replenishes the caps
We humans have upset the balance by extracting too much carbon out of the ground, where it’s been minding its own business for millenia. Burning coal and oil, as well other practices like industrial farming, spews millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every day and speeds up global ...
my research found that Black middle class families are three times more likely to file for bankruptcy, and Latinx families are twice as likely, than white families. The persistent wealth gap in America means that families of color have far less wealth than white families on average -- and at...
It’s a white wine that ages well. We have a wide-ranging conversation and exchange of ideas about wine making both in France and Canada. We also talk about the trend to organic winemaking and the overall reduction in chemical usage, whether vineyards are formally certified Bio or not, ...
Stevenson is known for his best-selling book Just Mercy, but if you like articles, his 2016 New Yorker profile is excellent; if you like videos, his 2012 TED Talk is legendary; and if you like podcasts, his interviews on Fresh Air and Alec Baldwin’s Here’s the Thing legit changed ...
Juno Temple Had No Time to Grieve 'Ted Lasso' Before Starting 'Fargo': 'It Was Kind of a Blessing' Pushing aside the weight of that dread while shooting was a challenge for Debicki. “As an actor, playing the scenes, I was just playing very, very real time, moment to moment,” she...
The two tall windows in the wall to the left of the bed are covered with bamboo shades, painted white. On one side of the bed stands the chair now holding the TV set; an end table of the same wood as the platform flanks it on the other side. The lamp on this table has a white...
white stringy hands reaching for suspenders. fromNight Horse(AUP, 2017) There’s a coda, after the broken wrists, because a poet or a scholar should not be broken by superstition. Paul Hetherington had asked me to contribute an ekphrastic poem toCordite.I chose the less common meaning: ‘a...
The persistent wealth gap in America means that families of color have far less wealth than white families on average -- and at the same time, families of color are far more likely to be abused by predatory lending practices. The outcomes in our current bankruptcy system aren’t equal, ...