James Joyce had a terrible time along with his eyes. When he was six years outdated he obtained his first set of eyeglasses, and, when he was 25, he got here down along with his first case of iritis, a really painful and potentially blinding inflammation of the colored a part of the attention, the…
This 12 months, the College of Michigan is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its Educational Innovation Fund. This fund has supported almost 400 faculty-led tasks from all 19 faculties and faculties throughout the College of Michigan at Ann Arbor campus and led to a uniquely broad set of outcomes, together with the creation of the…
Right here on Halloween of 2024, we’ve a higher variety of scary stories — and arguably, a a lot scarier variety of scarier stories — to select from than ever earlier than. However whatever their relevance to the specific lives we might stay and the specific dreads we might really feel immediately, what number of…
Luciano Pavarotti and James Brown are remembered as larger-than-life pertypeers with an virtually delusionical-seeming presence and distinctiveness. Nevertheless it wasn’t so very way back that each of them had been lively — and even lively onstage together. Within the video above, the King of the Excessive Cs and the Godfather of Soul get together on…
The 80-second clip above captures a rocket launch, somefactor of which we’ve all seen footage at one time or another. What makes its viewers name it “the niceest shot in television” nonetheless immediately, 45 years after it first aired, could take multiple viewing to note. In it, science historian James Burke speaks about how “certain…
As cultural figures, the late James Earl Jones and Kurt Vonnegut would appear to have had little in common, however every may easily be recognized by his voice. Jones’ will come to thoughts as quickly as you consider Darth Vader, Simba’s father, or “That is CNN.” Vonnegut’s distinction was the voice evident on any given…
Word: With the unhappy crossing of James Earl Jones, at age 93, we’re conveying again a put up from our archive–one featuring Jones learning two nice American poets, Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman. These learnings first appeared on our website in 2014. For all its many flaws the original Star Wars trilogy never strayed…
James Sowerby was an artist dedicated to the natural world. It thus comes as no surprise that he was additionally enormously interested in color, especially given the period wherein he lived. Born in 1757, he made his professionalfessional begin as a painter of moveers: a viable profession path in these days, at the very least…
Ernest Hemingmanner appeared to feud with many of the prominent male artists of his time, from Wallace Stevens and T.S. Eliot to F. Scott Fitzgerald. He had a “very unusual relationship” with Orson Welles—the 2 got here to blows at the very least as soon as—and he reportedly slapped Max Eastman within the face with…