Yearly Archives: 2019

A dark chocolate gelding swivels his ears from the man on his back to the beige cow trotting ahead. Cued by his rider, the horse drops his head low and…

Italian Premier Matteo Renzi on his way to meeting French President Francois Hollande, March, 2016. Luca Bruno / Press Association. All rights reserved.Rome, London, Washington, Wien: these are different and…

With dog memes eclipsing cat memes in popularity, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that millennials love their “fur children” with the intensity of a thousand suns. In fact, according…

A soldier holds his gun while patrolling from a vehicle in Morelia in Mexico's Michoacan state. AP Photo/Carlos Jasso. All rights reserved. Mexico’s so-called war on drugs has not ended.…

Working long hours, using your own money to pay for classroom materials, and struggling to engage students who are ready for summer vacation—yes, doing all that makes teaching a tough…

Elan valley, Wales. Flickr/Richard Walker. Some rights reserved.Heatwaves of more than 50⁰C in Iraq and India in recent weeks are yet further indications that climate disruption is a present-day reality,…

Seven years ago, scientists found an answer to the question plaguing mankind for generations: What’s the true cost of happiness? In their Nobel Prize-winning study, economist Angus Deaton and psychologist Daniel Kahneman determined…

Graduation day at Bradford University, July 2016. Flickr/Tim Green. Some rights reserved.During a year in which our country has seemed more divided than at any point in modern history, there…

It was a spring evening in 2011. I was sharing an inflatable mattress in the back of my friend’s truck. We were midway through Coachella when a group of Irish tourists car-camped in the plot behind…

Type the words “Hamilton cover” in the search box on YouTube and you’ll discover there are roughly 6,710,000 videos there of people belting out the hit Broadway musical’s songs — some…