Jul 13 Wednesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, robust ticket sales to the new National September 11th Memorial crashed its server. Continue reading
Jul 12 Tuesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, multiple rhino heads have been stolen from Belgium museums in the last few months. Continue reading
Jul 12 Smacking Into the Debt Ceiling: the Day-by-Day Consequences By Paul Solman Daily U.S. Government Income and Expenditures: Use the slide bar to see how Treasury's cash deficit is projected to grow if the debt ceiling is reached, starting with Aug. 3. Mouse over the red points to see the running deficit… Continue reading
Jul 12 Clock Is Ticking on Debt Agreement White House Chief of Staff William Daley, Press Secretary Jay Carney, adviser David Plouffe and Communications Director Daniel Pfeiffer listen to President Obama during Monday's news conference at the White House. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Television networks… Continue reading
Jul 11 Watch Exhibit Unravels Mysteries of Ancient Chinese Temples Through History, Science Exhibit Unravels the Mysteries of Ancient Chinese Temples… Continue watching
Jul 11 Monday on the NewsHour: A Digital Visit to the Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan Digital artist Jason Salavon has designed a way to let U.S. museum-goers experience the feeling of being in an ancient Chinese Buddhist temple without actually visiting one. Continue reading
Jul 11 Watch Artist Creates Digital Simulation of Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan Artist Jason Salavon describes his digital simulation of the cave temples of Xiangtangshan… Continue watching
Jul 11 ‘Have Wit, Will Travel’: The Life of an Economist And Stand-Up Comic By Paul Solman Economics was dubbed "the dismal science" by 19th century English intellectual Thomas Carlyle. The reason: the Reverend Thomas Malthus' grim prediction, around 1800, that population would inevitably outstrip food supply, since the former grows geometrically (1,2,4,8...), the latter, arithmetically (1,2,3,4...). Continue reading
Jul 11 Weekly Poem: ‘Excuse Me, Where Is Varick Street?’ Joy Katz is the author of two poetry collections, "The Garden Room" (2006, Tupelo Press) and "Fabulae" (2002, Southern Illinois University Press). She teaches in the graduate writing program at the University of Pittsburgh and is an editor-at-large for Pleiades. Continue reading