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Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly ...
Authenticity is obvious in paintings signed by Michelangelo. A painting from the same period, with the same skill, and ...
Writer and director Becca Roth drew attention to the issue in an X thread on Monday. The TikTok video from a young user ...
Experts from the University of Nottingham have created life-size 3D-printed insect models to explore how some species trick predators into thinking they're more dangerous than they really are—and ...
I want people who don’t like poetry to read my poems and enjoy them and think, ‘oh, maybe I do like poetry’ — Siobhan Flynn Unsuccessful Dates #1 - by Siobhan Flynn ...
Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise Almost 300 ...
Examples include carrageenan and xanthan gum. Red colorants: Carmine, which is extracted from tiny bugs called cochineals, is widely used to color imitation crab red.
I kept reading poetry, but for the last, I don’t know, 25 or 30 years, I’ve been very much a casual reader of poetry—not someone professionally invested in it, not someone who specializes in it.
By itself, a poem can’t fix injustice, prevent violence, or erase mistakes we’ve made. But it can “hold you and scold you at the same time,” Daughtry writes; it can “make you float . . . introduce you ...
That's when the dominoes start to fall, setting off chains of imitation that ripple through entire cultures. Girard calls this mimetic desire, shaping everything from holiday celebrations to X ...
We have the example and the help of the Holy Spirit to do this very thing that is so central to human experience. If the Holy Spirit is so generously willing to interweave in messy human affairs, then ...