Children’s Books About the Jewish High Holidays
Whether you celebrate Jewish holidays or simply want to learn more about the different high holidays, these picture books are wonderful choices to read for the...
Trailer for Amazon’s ‘Wheel of Time’ invites us on an epic fantasy adventure
The first trailer for Amazon Prime’s adaptation of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series of fantasy novels is here, and it is, to put it...
Botify raises $55 million to optimize search engine indexing
Botify has raised a $55 million Series C funding round led by InfraVia Growth with Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund also participating. The company has created a...
Fintech startup Jeeves raises $57M, goes from YC to $500M valuation in one year
Last summer, Jeeves was participating in Y Combinator’s summer batch as a fledgling fintech. This June, the startup emerged from stealth with $31 million in equity...
How Micron Fixed the Diversity Labor Pool Problem
Last month, I wrote about how impressed I was with Micron’s ability to reach unprecedented diversity levels in the industry far faster than anyone else. I...
Gnarly NYC storm footage shows record, climate-charged rains
Heavier, more extreme deluges are one of the most well-understood consequences of Earth’s warming climate. New York City and other Northeastern regions received a powerful dose...
How to Create Shareable Text Snippets in Chrome for Android
Want to share an excerpt from something you read online? There are several ways you can do it, but Google Chrome has a cool method that...
Larger Than Life
Peter and Elka Schumann’s Bread and Puppet Theater, the anticapitalist troupe founded in 1963, occupies several buildings on the former Dopp Farm in a remote corner...
Ortega in His Labyrinth
On June 13, as police in Managua, the hot and dusty Nicaraguan capital, were surrounding his house and preparing to arrest him, Hugo Torres made a...
Our Emissary of Italian Prose
Of our favorite writers, we say we would read even their shopping lists. I’ve never heard anyone say such a thing about translators, and yet there...
