15 Movies to Inspire Your Existential Travel Across the US When...
Chloé Zhao’s Academy Award-winning Nomadland is inspiring a new wave of tourism to unlikely locations in South Dakota, including the Reptile Gardens animal park and the cowboy-themed Wall Drug Store, both featured in the film.With all respect to those attractions, it’s less the sites themselves than the context that’s selling them: Nomadland paints a picture…
What to Do When You Encounter Racism in Your Kids’ Books
Photo: tookitook (Shutterstock)As parents become better informed about the racism present in media, they’re left with some tough choices—decisions they sometimes need to make in a split second’s time. One of the biggies is: What on Earth do you do when you’re reading a story aloud to a child and you come across something racist?Lindsay…
Early hominin skull completes “a significant space” in the fossil record
Enlarge / Yohannes Haile-Salassie poses in the field with the newly discovered skull. Photograph courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History A 3.8 million-year-old fossil skull is giving anthropologists their first look at an early Australopithecine, the hominin genus that eventually led to modern humans. The skull belongs to a member of a species…
