Tennessee Walking Horse video stuns Shelbyville
The town was feeling stung Friday after the humane society's latest strike against its main industry - stomach-turning, hidden-camera video of walking horse trainer Jackie McConnell striking a horse in the face repeatedly.
Moments: Caught on Camera, May 11 to May 17
One captivating image a day, the reason it was chosen and how you can shoot similar pictures
Egypt: Nawal Al Saadawi and the Sky Over Egypt
[Fahamu] Dr Nawal al Saadawi's continued hope, after decades of persecution by the Egyptian political and religious authorities, and the as yet unfilled promise of Tahrir, offers inspiration to everyone challenging the violence and abuses of patriarchy and capitalism.
Duchess Kate's year of fashion hits
Take a look back at some of the royal's most popular styles of the last year — outfits that sold out within minutes, shoes that helped propel small businesses, and dresses that inspired imitation.
The Pocket Mirror: 'Ducks carrying umbrellas are nice for a bathroom'
Wallpaper today is a horse of a different color compared to the wallpaper I remember when I was growing up. Today one needs an interior decorator to tell you what wallpaper to put in which room and then finding someone skilled enough to put the wallpaper up is another hurdle. Interior decorators, skilled paper hangers and expensive wallpaper were unheard of in our family. Wallpaper was ...
Watertown Armenian genocide survivor celebrates 100th birthday
Areka Kazarian arrived in Watertown in 1924, fleeing Turkish persecution during the Armenian genocide. And 88 years later she’s still here, celebrating her 100th birthday on April 18.
Lewis Lapham: Machine-Made News
Absent the force of the human imagination and its powers of expression, our machines cannot accelerate the hope of political and social change, which stems from language that induces a change of heart.
Post-literate media
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. -- Emperor Charles V But in which language does one speak to a machine, and what can be expected by way of response? The questions arise from the accelerating data-streams out of which we’ve learned to draw the breath of life, posed in consultation with the equipment that scans the flesh and tracks the spirit, cues ...
Word order
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. - Emperor Charles V But in which language does one speak to a machine, and what can be expected by way of response?
Lewis H. Lapham
explores the fate of the word on our new electronic landscape and on the Internet (that “toy with a tin ear”).A mix of his usual striking observations and, also as usual, some evocative personal history, this is a dazzling tour of the fate of the word encroached on by the ad and the data-miner.It’s a story of wonders and also, for the word, of loss -- of human possibilities, especially political ...