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Watch Family Planning, Walt Disney’s 1967 Sex Ed Production, Starring Donald Duck 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
In 1951, Carl Djerassi, a chemist working in an obscure lab in Mexico City, created the first progesterone pill. Little did he know that, a decade later, 1.2 million women would be “on the Pill” in Am...
The Tale of the Fox: Watch Ladislas Starevich’s Animation of Goethe’s Great German Folktale (1937) 27 Aug 2013 | 12:44 pm
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — the very name bespeaks literary mastery of the widest range. Not only did this best-known of all eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German writers reach into poetry, the n...
Watch an Animation of Shaun Tan’s All-Ages Picture Book The Lost Thing 27 Aug 2013 | 04:37 am
What would you do if you crossed paths with a jingling lost thing whose oven-shaped body, crustaceous claws, and fleshy tentacles would seem right at home in Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delig...
John Searle Makes A Forceful Case for Studying Consciousness, Where Everything Else Begins 26 Aug 2013 | 11:25 pm
Consciousness is the single most important aspect of our lives, says philosopher John Searle. Why? “It’s a necessary condition on anything being important in our lives,” he says. “If you care about sc...
Virginia Woolf’s Handwritten Suicide Note: A Painful and Poignant Farewell (1941) 26 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
It seems like a very morbid and inhuman practice to treat the suicide note as a piece of literature, even if the author of said note is a writer as famous as Virginia Woolf. And yet, why not? I can an...
Did Hollywood Movies Studios “Collaborate” with Hitler During WW II? Historian Makes the Case 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
As anyone who watches the History Channel can tell you, stories about the Second World War still fascinate. Stories about Nazi Germany specifically seem to fascinate more than they ever have before. C...
10 Essential Tips for Making Great Coffee at Home 26 Aug 2013 | 01:30 pm
Michael Haft and Harrison Suarez went to college together, served in the Marines in Afghanistan, then, after returning home, stumbled upon the world of specialty coffee and began “an obsessive quest t...
Fritz Lang’s M: Watch the Restored Version of the Classic 1931 Film 26 Aug 2013 | 12:27 am
When Jean-Luc Godard asked the Austrian filmmaker Fritz Lang in 1961 to name his greatest film, the one most likely to last, Lang did not hesitate. “M,” he said. Made in 1931, near the end of the Wei...
The Homemade Hand Puppets of Bauhaus Artist Paul Klee 23 Aug 2013 | 11:28 pm
My kids used to beg their dad to help out with their impromptu puppet shows. He complied by having our daughter’s favorite baby doll deliver an interminable curtain speech, hectoring the audience (me)...
Robert Crumb Illustrates Philip K. Dick’s Infamous, Hallucinatory Meeting with God (1974) 23 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
“I saw God,” Fat states, and Kevin and I and Sherri state, “No, you just saw something like God, exactly like God.” And having spoke, we do not stay to hear the answer, like jesting Pilate, upon his a...
