Hanging Onto Our Selves

Fred Voss Cultural Weekly
Forty years working as a machinist, poet Fred Voss zeroes in on the quiet danger of repetitive work and how comradeship and imagination transcend the boredom and the threat.

Arctic Sea Ice Disappearing

Arctic sea ice has not only been shrinking in surface area, it’s become younger and thinner. In this NASA animation, the ice cover almost looks gelatinous as it pulses through the seasons.

Trump's Foreign Business Ties: A Closer Look

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at President-Elect Donald Trump's foreign business ties, and the conflicts of interests they pose, and possible violations of the Constitution.

Flashmob | Tchaikovsky's 1812

Young musicians of the Banda Simfònica d'Algemesí light up a public square with a flash mob performance of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture on September 3, 2016.

'Shockingly Stupid': Trump's Attack on Climate Research

Nika Knight Common Dreams
Trump's proposal to eliminate NASA's climate research program is "a shockingly stupid move that would deal a very severe blow to global research on environmental change across the world."

Russian Propaganda Effort Helped Spread ‘Fake News’ During Election, Experts Say

Craig Timberg The Washington Post
There is no way to know whether Russian 'fake news' efforts proved decisive in electing Trump, but researchers say it was part of a broadly effective strategy. The tactics included penetrating the computers of election officials and releasing troves of hacked emails that embarrassed Clinton in the final months of her campaign.