6+ day, 17+ hour ago  (334+ words) In Chile and Argentina, satirical publications used humor to expose political crises overlooked by the mainstream press. It's widely understood that one of the crucial jobs of modern news media is holding governments responsible for their actions. But what happens…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (157+ words) How The West Was Photographed'JSTOR Daily Link writes that in 1866, as the Union Pacific celebrated reaching the 100th meridian, a trainload of executives and celebrities were entertained by a staged attack by hired Pawnee pretending to be Sioux. Before Wild West…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (539+ words) Behind The Raven's melancholy lies a theory of composition shaped by magazines, machines, and modernity. "And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting/ On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door." Like its titular…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (258+ words) The beloved American painter rejected attempts to categorize his work as a Pop Art as he experimented with texture, light, and nostalgia. Thiebaud was intrigued by the possibilities of still lives, and heavily influenced by those created by his artistic…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (338+ words) Do women's attraction to certain faces really change across the menstrual cycle? A long-running theory meets modern data. Imagine sitting in a pod, speaking to a stranger you've never seen, separated by a wall " and then getting engaged to them....

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (291+ words) Before it was a cult classic, the Warner Bros. film began as a 1968 children's novel by Ted Hughes, though the book and movie tell notably different tales. Sometimes connecting the dots between creative industries leads to some intriguing discoveries. For…...