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Stephen Hawking once proclaimed he had gathered “experimental evidence that time travel is not possible.” The experiment? A party for time travelers he hosted in 2009. But he didn’t send out the invitation until the party was over. “I sat…
Leilah Weinraub’s début documentary feature, “Shakedown,” which will screen at moma PS1 on March 18th, explores early-aughts Los Angeles through the underground black-lesbian strip club from which the film gets its name. This summary is, as Weinraub acknowledged, a “both…
Barry Blitt’s latest cover for the magazine is his fifteenth to feature Donald Trump. (“The gift that keeps on grifting,” in Blitt’s words.) The image of Trump at the lectern, poised nude and cross-legged, recalls the prophet Bob Dylan, who…
On Monday, National Geographic opened its April issue with a sombre letter from the editor, Susan Goldberg, presented with the even more sombre headline “For Decades, Our Coverage was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It.” “The…
Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA was born on January 8, 1942, exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo. He died Wednesday, on the anniversary of the birth of Einstein. He seemed fated to greatness. And if it…
As the clock moves forward with the beginning of daylight saving time, what was, for example, 5 a.m. was actually 6 a.m. We lose an hour on the clock to get more daylight into our day in the morning. As…
