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
Jul 11 Watch Photojournalist Captures the World of Child Brides The practice of child marriage is far more common throughout the world than many might suspect. Stephanie Sinclair has spent nearly a decade photographing communities where the practice occurs. Hari Sreenivasan recently spoke with Sinclair about her work. Continue watching
Jul 11 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral was murdered over the weekend. Continue reading
Jul 11 Watch Weekly Poem: 'Excuse Me, Where Is Varick Street?' by Joy Katz Joy Katz is the author of two poetry collections, "The Garden Room" and "Fabulae."… Continue watching
Jul 08 Jobs: Dreary Data, a Desperate Viewer, a Pessimistic Professor By Paul Solman Goodness! U-7, our own measure of under-and unemployment, shot up to 18.6 percent Friday morning, a rise that gets us back near the number when we first inaugurated the Solman Scale last December. Friday morning's job numbers:… Continue reading