Ada Twist, Scientist and The Questioneers Books
Written by Meredith Bartolo Pappas As my kids settle into their school year, I keep thinking about Ms. Lila Greer and how happy they would be...
New ways to make vertical video ads on YouTube
People are streaming across different screens, video lengths and channels, and they’re coming to YouTube to watch it all. Today, Gen Z viewers watch an almost...
Timeless Correspondences
At the end of The Gift, a memoir of H.D.’s American childhood unpublished in her lifetime, she appends a chapter set in the present, London, 1943....
Throngs of Unseen People
When eleven-year-old Willie Lincoln died of typhoid in the White House in February 1862, his parents were devastated. For weeks President Lincoln held solitary grieving sessions...
Endless Summer
In September 1963 my family moved from Clarion, Iowa, to Osage, Iowa, eighty-two miles away. I was eleven, the oldest of four children. Both towns were...
Rome Was His Laboratory
No one in Rome would let Francesco Bianchini punch a hole through their ceiling. Bianchini wanted to measure the size of the solar system, which required...
Where Will We Live?
The climate crisis can be understood as an experiment in pace. By burning the remains of hundreds of millions of years of flora and fauna in...
Corrections of Taste
Near the end of Terry Eagleton’s Critical Revolutionaries, there’s a sentence that made me stop for a moment in disbelief. Perhaps it was meant to. F.R....
Cosmic Oceans Squeezed into Atoms
Suppose you are traveling on a municipal bus in the sunbaked South Indian city of Chennai, and you know Tamil. At some point, overwhelmed by the...
