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It’s a dark and stormy night and you’ve suddenly found yourself swept off of your wooden vessel into the wild Atlantic Ocean. It’s 1893, so your woolen clothes are pulling you down to Davy Jones’ locker. What kind of dog would want to rescue you? Chances are, you’re not hoping for a bulldog or pug. ...
Everyone has holiday traditions that make the day special for them. Thanksgiving is a holiday when many people gather with loved ones for a big, delicious meal. Others like to start their day with a bit of exercise. Races called “Turkey Trots” have become very popular lately. One fast-casual restaur...
Philly’s Fabric Workshop and Museum was established in the 1970s to uplift and illuminate work in the fabric arts. The space was always envisioned as a center for community participation, providing space, tools, and pedagogy to aspiring makers and artists as well as a curatorial destination for work...
In a 1968 photograph by Doris Derby, a young girl longingly peers into the window of a toy store in Jackson, Mississippi. Within the image, Derby captures another photographer holding an 8mm camera, kneeling and holding the camera at the child’s eye level. While Derby’s photograph of a child dreamin...
This holiday season, as you gather around the table with your loved ones, it’s important to remember the people who put food on our tables and the connection that we share. The moment you pick up a carrot, peach, or apple in the grocery store, you’re symbolically shaking hands with whoever harvested...
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About Thiepval war memorial is reputed to be the largest Commonwealth war memorial in the world. Standing alone in the French countryside, its central arch rises 140 feet high and rests on 16 massive pillars. The memorial bears the names of more than 72,000 men who died in...
Campus & Community How do you make a game-winning field goal? Kieran Corr preparing to kick his game-winning field goal.Harvard Athletics November 20, 2025 3 min read It’s all in the preparation, Crimson kicker says. And don’t worry. Either way, you’re only as good (or bad) as your last kick. Part o...
Usually driving into a small town in Saskatchewan you can see a couple of taller buildings on the horizon, and maybe a grain elevator. Uniquely, Gravelbourg's skyline is dominated by a cathedral. Built in 1918, Our Lady of the Assumption Co-Cathedral mixes Italianate and Romanesques architectural st...
Located in Los Angeles, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will feature a permanent collection of more than 40,000 illustrations, movie posters, murals, film artifacts and other artworks...
A terrifying time in two children’s lives created an incredible bond between a man and a child. Legendary Carolina Panthers tight end Greg Olsen met a young boy named Bryson Shupe eight years ago. Bryson was a patient awaiting a heart transplant at the same time as Greg’s son. The pair bonded, and B...
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Mongabay founder and CEO Rhett A. Butler has been announced a winner of this year’s Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize. The annual prize is awarded to “outstanding leaders whose work is courageous, innovative, impactful, rooted in universal values, and global in perspective,” the organize...
"The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro's Impressionism," the first major U.S. exhibition of the artist in 40 years, is now open at the Denver Art Museum...
Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Tell us what you ve been reading at info@reasonstobecheerful.world and we just might feature it here. Tackling trash When Samuel Salamone set up his litter.per.follower social media account, he pledged to pick u...
Campus & Community An animal obsession, singing gadget, and secret accessory Photo illustration by Liz Zonarich/Harvard Staff November 18, 2025 2 min read Psychology professor defies the cold with cuddly, hearty, cozy things Part of the Favorite Things series Recommendations from Harvard faculty Eli...
If you don’t remember Uncle Jesse singing his vows to Aunt Becky at their 1991 wedding, were you even alive? OK, maybe that’s a bit dramatic, but the Donaldson/Katsopolis wedding on Full House is one of those TV moments that millions remember. Particularly because Uncle Jesse performed Forever for t...
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David Diao, whose painting Bauhaus Still Looking to De Stijl (2018) appears on the cover of the Fall issue of Art in America, is profiled in the magazine. From his studio in New York, Diao told A.i.A. the backstory of the piece, shown below in full. You might say that what I do is image mongeri...
Many people have hit hard economic times in their lives, barely scraping by and making ends meet with nothing leftover once the bills were paid to buy something new. Financial struggle is tough, and unless someone has experienced it personally, they may not fully grasp how much every single cent cou...
Emotions ran high on a night of historic wins and last-gasp goals as the last eight of the 43 automatic qualification spots for the FIFA World Cup 2026 were sealed across Europe (UEFA), Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF).With less than seven months to go until the expanded 48-team......
Benny Blanco and Selena Gomez announced their engagement in December 2024 with a series of photos showing off an impressive diamond ring. The couple seemed so happy to find true love and spent the next several months basking in that newly engaged glow. Benny even took Selena to take prom photos in A...
A community in Montclair, New Jersey has transformed a modest experiment among five families into a joyful ritual of hundreds of children biking to school together. This bike bus movement has spread to hundreds of similar routes across the United States and around the world.
