When an Instagram post by Rupi Kaur was taken down for displaying a little bit of period blood in 2015, she refused to accept the unjust policing of the female body. She responded to instagram with strength and eloquence. “You deleted a photo of a woman who is fully covered and menstruating stating that it goes against community guidelines when your guidelines outline that it is nothing but acceptable. the girl is fully clothed. The photo is mine. It is not attacking a certain group. Nor is it spam. And because it does not break those guidelines i will repost it …
Exciting technological advancements are on the verge of making it possible to read a book without so much as touching it. A camera developed by researchers at MIT and Georgetown has the ability to make out letters from the first nine pages of a book. Terahertz radiation, the new image processing technique used for the camera, is the same one being implemented for security bomb checks. After hearing of the potential for the technology to look through envelopes, researchers at MIT were inspired to surpass the single page limitation and open the technology up to be used in ancient text …
Pioneer of the graphic novel, and one of the most beloved contemporary authors, Alan Moore has recently confirmed his retirement from the medium which he mastered. Following the release of his behemoth of a novel, Jerusalem, Alan Moore has stated that he had “about 250 pages of comics left in me”. The reason for the dramatic retirement from comic writing; boredom. “I think I have done enough for comics. I’ve done all that I can. I think if I were to continue to work in comics, inevitably the ideas would suffer, inevitably you’d start to see me retread old ground and …
The mid to late 1930’s were a dark time for Fitzgerald, and the literature he produced was reflective of the difficulty he was subject to. Much of what he wrote from this period remained unpublished, until now. The people at Scribner are finally gracing readers with a collection of these stories, the last of Fitzgerald’s work. They claim the author was unable to sell because the “subject matter or style departed from what editors expected of [the author] in the 1930s.” F. Scott Fitzgerald dealt with quite a bit towards the end of his career. His wife, Zelda was interned at …
The Dictionary of American Regional English has been traversing the country since 1965. It has held thousands of face to face interviews in order to capture and record the diversity of American dialects. After a little over 50 years of research, the organization has compiled a list of 50 American words and phrases from all over the states that are at risk of dying out from our lexicon. In an effort to save these words and phrases, the likes of which include “to fleech” (to coax) and “frog strangler” (heavy rain), DARE has asked the producers and presenters at the podcast platform …
