So many of us are asked about favorite lines from books. I have favorite phrases: for example, “ineluctable modality” garnered from reading Joyce’s Ulysses over 40 years ago. It seems to have relev…

Kneehigh2AGrasshopper by Kathy Bryson

Free legal services will roll out on Nov. 19 at the Cook County Public Defender’s Freedom Defense Center in Roseland through a partnership with The Village Legal and Community Project.

Writing is textual painting in which the elements of fiction – plot, characters, setting, point of view, theme, and style – are arranged to create a piece of art. Because of this, some work by hack…

A new comprehensive map reveals the true scale of the ancient Roman road network – but it is still incomplete.

Once felt like a helpful grammar checker for writers, Grammarly has now turned into an aggressive AI tool always trying to erase your individuality.

Proponents of alkaline hydrolysis, a process of liquidising human remains, say the technology is a cheaper, greener and more ‘calming’ way of returning to the earth * Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads The town of Capella in central Queensland is home to fewer than 1,000 living souls and has no grocery store. But by Christmas it may be home to a machine worth hundreds of thousands of dollars that liquidises human remains into an urnful of white powdered bones. Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...

The World Shipping Council (WSC) has released the third edition of the WSC Whale Chart, a global voyage planning aid that maps where slower ship speeds and route changes can help protect whales from…

Kneehigh2AGrasshopper by Kathy Bryson

Garlic, alcohol, meat and even fasting can affect our body odour – and alter how appealing our scent is to others.

Between 2000 and 2024, the U.S. Latino population nearly doubled, rising from 35.3 million to 68 million.

Every so often there is an article from someone expressing frustration with getting on to the rec/trending list. There was one recently, and I thought I’d post my answer as an article in case others…