As usual, Natalie prefaced her reading with a poignant reflection that is itself nothing less than a prose poem about the nature of life and its responsibility to nature — that is, to itself: The human soul.The mind of man…Slowly,…
The Disney Plus series Ms. Marvel premiered on June 8, introducing us to Khan, played by TV newcomer Iman Vellani. Khan is a Captain Marvel mega-fan who eventually gains superpowers of her own. As of this writing, Ms. Marvel sits at a…
What’s happening 7:58 Why it matters The debate over exactly what type of cosmic character is bending the light from stars behind it may soon be settled. The Hubble Space Telescope is set to make more observations and collect more…
All of this — the dandelion, the insistence on wonder as the sieve for meaning — reminded me of a some passages by G.K. Chesterton (May 29, 1874–June 14, 1936) — philosopher, impassioned early eugenics opponent, prolific author of several…
My grandmother Wenonah Bond Logan was the most beloved friend of my childhood. She grew up in the racially segregated U.S. South in the early part of the twentieth century, mostly in Alabama. Her family moved to Washington, DC, when…
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. What’s happening iOS 16 and Android 13 both come with new features that aim to replace your physical wallet and improve connections with…
Netflix, for years, was notoriously tight-lipped about its viewership. But after a few years of dropping stats for some of its programming each quarter, Netflix launched a website in mid-November posting charts of its most popular shows and movies from the past…
[…] […] She learns what we all do once some cataclysm awakens us to the finitude and fragility of life — that this appetite for life is best roused by the most prayerful of acts: the act of paying attention;…
What’s happening After a four-year journey, Hayabusa2 rendezvoused with the space rock and then, in 2019, the spacecraft made two brief touchdowns on the asteroid, hoovering up samples and storing them in a specialized sample capsule. That sample capsule landed…
“The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time,” Montaigne wrote half a millennium ago as he reckoned with how to live, before we had fully forgotten the finitude of our time…