Manchester City Battles Premier League Over Alleged Rule Breach
City, the Gulf-backed soccer team on the cusp of a fourth English Premier League title, is fighting an investigation over financial control rules.
Daily Archive: May 4, 2021
Kermit the Frog Gives a TED Talk About Creativity & the Power of “Ridiculous Optimism”
In 2015, 3.8 billion years after “creativity emerged” out of “sheerest emptiness,” Kermit the Frog was tapped to give a talk on creativity at TEDxJackson. How did a local,...
They Are Their Own Monuments
In two North Philadelphia neighborhoods, many hands create homegrown art tributes to local heroes.
Jacques d’Amboise, Charismatic Star of City Ballet, Is Dead at 86
He helped popularize ballet with an all-American style, combining the nonchalance of Fred Astaire with the nobility of a classic male dancer. Hollywood came calling, too.
Jose Mourinho named new AS Roma coach
Jose Mourinho has been named by AS Roma as the new coach of the Serie A team.
Direct current to the brain’s right dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex found to enhance placebo effect
A team of researchers from Harvard Medical School and the University of Turin Medical School has found that applying direct current to the brain’s right dorsal...
One step closer to efficient cannabis production
As nurseries and garden centers fill up with spring landscaping plants, home gardeners owe a lot to a technique called micropropagation, which has proven beneficial to...
As optimism returns, a reminder that life after COVID-19 will be stressful for many
Life during the COVID-19 pandemic has been uniquely stressful for parents with children at home. For some parents, schools welcoming children back for in-person instruction—even for...
How to Have Better Conversations About Hard Things
The journalist Anna Sale explains why we’re so bad at talking about death, sex and money — and how to get better.
Two classes of trans kids are emerging – those who have access to puberty blockers, and those who don’t
For people who have never thought about it before, it might sound reasonable to require trans kids to wait until they’re adults before they can receive...
