Untitled 23 Aug 2013 | 09:54 am

[View the story "We Need Another Freedom Movement" on Storify]

Soap 16 Aug 2013 | 08:34 am

Ask me again what I want to be when I grow up. At age 34, I want to be someone who knows how to love and be loved. It is the simplest thing I can think of wanting to be. Certainly, also the hardest....

Untitled 14 Aug 2013 | 08:09 am

It's never a bad thing when your morning begins with the gentle sounds of Brian Cox discussing the 'wunders of the unee-verse' with Neil deGrasse Tyson & others, against the backdrop of London's Scien...

On The Endless Waiting To Be Understood 24 Jul 2013 | 10:56 am

Tough love dished out by Anton Chekov to his brother, Nikolai: "You often complain to me that people 'don't understand' you. But even Goethe and Newton made no such complaints. Christ did, true, but ...

First, Listen 13 Jul 2013 | 08:23 pm

This is the remarkable speech given by Malala Yousafzai at the UN on her 16th birthday. There are folks who are questioning whether she wrote the speech herself or whether she is merely a pawn in larg...

At The Risk Of Sounding Like The Worst Woman Ever 13 Jun 2013 | 09:26 am

....allow me to reproduce an extract from an interview with comedian Rob Delaney: Any advice for a 21-year-old who hates their job and has the possibility of traveling the world? And has a boyfriend ...

Awwww 1 Jun 2013 | 08:06 am

Guy & Eep from 'The Croods' Guy [strained while holding on to Eep] You're really heavy! Eep Really? [lovingly] Thank you!

Catharsis 18 May 2013 | 05:22 pm

'Hysterical Literature' by Clayton Cubitt 12 May 2013 | 08:32 pm

This is just one in a series called 'Hysterical Literature'. The buzzwords are 'orgasm' and 'art'. For the artist's perspective, read this Salon article. (via @koopamandook)

"Because I Can't!..." 27 Apr 2013 | 10:04 am

Film: Contact Year: 1997 Based on the novel 'Contact' by Carl Sagan (1985) Worth watching a fajillion times because of a brilliant story & screenplay and multitudes of layered meanings that criss-cro...