Learn From Mike Wesch How to Create Better Videos for Students
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed school leaders, teachers, students and parents in the United States to respond in different ways to “shelter in place / shelter...
Old Nukes, Hot Dog Toasters, and Dr. Phil: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
As we all try to adjust to our current new reality, I have some thoughts to share with you all. I have come to realize that...
FDA Issues Emergency Authorization for Coronavirus At-Home Sample Collection Kit
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Saturday announced that it had issued an emergency use authorization for an at-home coronavirus sample collection kit. The kit...
Luchita Hurtado’s Persistent Perspective
It wasn’t until Luchita Hurtado was ninety-nine years old that she would witness the opening of her first museum retrospective. Titled “I Live I Die I...
Pandemic Journal
The latest edition of our brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Coco Fusco in Brooklyn, Lucas Adams...
With Flynn, Barr Burns Justice to Feed Trump’s ‘Obamagate’ Fantasy
This legal argument of the Justice Department’s motion to withdraw its case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is a house of marked cards, and...
Short Talk on Kafka on Hölderlin
“I cannot keep my dreams straight.” By this complaint Kafka meant, keep them going in a straight line from front to finish. His dreams were inclined...
An English Clergyman’s Advice For Quarantine
Two hundred years ago, the Reverend Sydney Smith (1771–1845) wrote what is certainly the most famous private letter he ever composed. His thoughts need almost no...
My Quarantine: Cannes, Interrupted
With this year’s Cannes Film Festival canceled, the Criterion Channel is revisiting the last edition that was also called off. Amid widespread demonstrations against the firing of Cinémathèque...
The Folly of ‘America First’ in the Race for Biodata Amid a Pandemic
In a pandemic, biodata about a population’s genome is an essential asset for epidemiology, as well as for the development of vaccines and treatments. And for...
