Tag: rome
Michelangelo hated painting the Sistine Chapel – and never aspired to...
Anna Swartwood House, University of South Carolina
When a 5-inch-by-4-inch red chalk drawing of a woman’s foot by Michelangelo...
What will happen at the funeral of Pope Francis
Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross
The 88-year-old pontiff had been well aware of his fragile state...
What a baker from ancient Pompeii can teach us about happiness
Nadejda Williams, University of West Georgia
In a testament to its resiliency, happiness, according to this year’s World Happiness...
The icy backstory to that ‘clink clink’ you’ll hear when raising...
Tulasi Srinivas, Emerson College
If ever there was a year to toast drawing to an end, it’s 2020. Over the festive period, people around the...
Julius Caesar in our times
Jyotsna G. Singh, Michigan State University
“All the world’s a stage,” Shakespeare once wrote.
In recent weeks, that Shakespearean adage has been particularly resonant, with the...
From ‘Sex and The City’ to ‘Game of Thrones’ to ‘Girls,’...
With our TV watching habits quickly becoming immune to large doses of tits and ass per episode, almost exclusively appealing to the male-gaze, a change was a comin’…
EXPLORING NATURE
The world’s great fish migrations are collapsing – that’s a problem...
Zeb Hogan, University of Nevada, Reno
Hidden beneath the surface of the world’s rivers, some of Earth’s great animal...
