At New York City’s most-visited museum, you will experience over 5,000 years of art from around the world. Now you don’t even have to travel to the Upper East Side to get inspired because the Met offers an online database of over 1,500 titles of mostly art books, online publications, bulletins, and journals from the last five decades for you to enjoy for free. Image Via the Metropolitan Museum of Art Met Publications is the name of the website in which you can indulge in reading all those art books you cannot afford, sieve through journals written by those …
From looking up from my phone and seeing everyone else looking down at theirs, hearing about people cloning their cats and inviting robots into their houses (yes, Alexa counts), to the staring I direct toward trendy commuters on their solowheels, living in a metropolitan setting can weird me out sometimes. When I come across these futuristic gadgets and hear about the rise of artificial intelligence I’m like “yeah, cool, I’m enlightened,” but I also feel a weird sense of sadness for the things that will eventually become obsolete. That being said ,I absolutely am a faithful consumer to the industries speeding up this change. I let my …
No, this isn’t going to be an article about the worrying ongoing back and forth between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un on Twitter. Instead, it is about how, since Kim Jong Un took power in September 2010, the regime has demonstrated a marked thematic shift with emphasis on targeting youth, creativity and innovation; this includes state produced literary fiction. Image Via The Japan Times Outside observers such as you and I can now access some of this propaganda via regime-sponsored websites. The stories in circulation are written in highly stylized prose which, according to Meredith Shaw, Ph.D. student of politics and …
Its time to tear yourself away from watching true crime documentaries on YouTube and Netflix and pick the stories up in your hands instead. Watching as opposed to reading harrowing stories of people just like you and me can be somewhat numbing after a while, and in my experience of reading up about cults, sitting with a book gives you the reflection time you need, as opposed to the constant stream of information that comes at you while watching shows and films like Holy Hell, Witches: A Century of Murder or Deprogrammed. Cults that are active today range from New Age mystic groups to hardcore fundamentalist Christians preparing …
Elizabeth Macregor is a Welsh woman who has been jailed for twelve months for stealing hundreds of books from the library she works at in Hirwaun, Wales. Employees at the Pontypridd Library in Rhondda Cyon Taf said they had noticed many titles going missing over the course of a few months. When Macregor’s home was searched by police, they uncovered many hundreds of books that she was attempting to sell on eBay. Books were lying around the house in boxes, in recycling bins. Some were burnt, showing evidence that the librarian had attempted to obstruct the course of justice. Image …
