An Iceberg the Size of Delaware Just Broke Off a Major Antarctic Ice Shelf
Senator Al Franken and David Letterman in Boiling the Frog
How a Company You’ve Never Heard of Sends You Letters about Your Medical Condition
The End of the American Experiment
Pentagon study declares American empire is ‘collapsing’
Enraged by 18th-Century Custard Recipe: Orange Fool
Simply The Worst Human Being We Can Imagine?
Natalia Veselnitskaya was no stranger to Trump business; the timeline so far
Donald Jr. Reviews Famous Works Of Literature (satire)
Crackdown on immigrants shakes upstate New York economy
He Became a Hate Crime Victim. She Became a Widow
So this one time at a journalism conference…
Emmanuel Carrère’s “The Kingdom” explores how a tiny sect became a global religion
Three Misunderstood Things, including Christianity and abortion
How to Talk With Religious Conservatives About LGBT Rights
The Religious Left is getting under right-wing media’s skin
The invention of heterosexuality
When Black Hair Violates The Dress Code
The Origin of ‘Husky,’ the Word That’s Traumatized Generations of Fat Boys
The Librarian Who Took On Al Qaida
Higher education and budget cuts
How One Leader Set a Toxic Tone, Spurning Allies She Needed Most (Shirley Jackson of RPI)
How Andrew Cuomo Keeps the Left in Check
Join in this first-of-its-kind citizen science project, gathering scientifically valuable data from the total solar eclipse that will traverse North America on August 21, 2017; here’s the eclipse simulator; ALB will only get 70%
The Rise and Fall of Toronto’s Classiest Con Man
Why Popularity Matters So Much—Even After High School
Leonard Maltin (Critic): If you’ve never seen silent films, or foreign language films, if your education with film begins with Star Wars then you’re handicapped
Oscar-winner Martin Landau, who starred in ‘Ed Wood,’ ‘North by Northwest’ and ‘Mission: Impossible,’ dies at 89 – before that, he was a cartoonist
Kermit voice actor Steve Whitmire devastated to lose job after 27 years and Jim Henson’s daughter and son respond; replacements?
A WICKED interview with Winnie Holzman, librettist
Chuck Miller gets a postcard from the 2017 Iowa State Fair Photo Competition
NOT ME: THE STAR spoke with Roger Green, who has been driving hearses for more than a decade. “He said nobody wants their dead in a ‘dead’ hearse.”
Mary Anderson, inventor of the practical car windscreen wiper
There’s No Crying in Professional Wiffle Ball
Now I Know: The New York Police Officer Whose Job is a Buzz and Who Was the Fifth Dentist — That Didn’t Recommend Trident? and A Profitable Way to Stop Telemarketers and The Internet’s Hidden Teapot and The Best Checkers Player in History
MUSIC
Sgt. Pepper – Big Daddy. The whole thing, live
The Strawberry Alarm Clock Celebrate 50 Years of “Incense and Peppermints”
K-Chuck Radio: Awesome and rare 70’s dance classics and Father’s Day Funk
Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly And Bryce Dessner Play ‘Planetarium’ Track ‘Mercury’
Amat Te Mehercle: The 1960s Classics Teacher Who Translated Beatles Songs Into Latin
Rapp on This: The Slants’ SCOTUS victory
