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The vernal equinox is upon us: On Tuesday, March 20, both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres will experience an equal amount of daylight. For those of us here in the Northern Hemisphere, it marks the beginning of spring, with daylight…
A woman in Tempe, Arizona, has died after being struck by a self-driving car on Sunday in what’s believed to be the first pedestrian fatality caused by an autonomous vehicle on a public road. The vehicle, operated by Uber, was…
I was lured into “Terrace House” by rumors of its unusual tranquillity. The series, which originated on Japan’s Fuji TV, in 2012, and is now co-produced by Fuji and Netflix, is a reality show marked by the absence of showiness.…
“Arthur Miller: Writer,” a new HBO documentary about the playwright’s life and work, was produced and directed by Miller’s daughter Rebecca, who collected footage for it for over twenty years. Often, she was able to shoot from intimate or rarified…
On March 8th, International Women’s Day, when McDonald’s flipped its arches and Vladimir Putin expressed “our enchantment” with women’s “beauty and tenderness,” Emily Wilson, the classics scholar and translator of Homer, spent part of the day on Twitter. In sentences…
At first glance, March 19, 2018 seems like just another day on the calendar. In fact, it’s anything but ordinary. Today marks the 15th anniversary of the most disastrous U.S. foreign policy decision since President Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 escalation in…
