If dogs are a human's best friend, these two videos demonstrate that dolphins might be a dog's best friend; and to always do due diligence then scrolling the interweb.  Trigger… Read the rest of the article: Dolphins, dogs, and a staged video

This is the game's athletic brilliance, agility, talent, and intelligibility: the definition of a phenom. In this repost from Major League Baseball by Elite Dingers, the multiutility player Andrew Romine… Read the rest of the article: Remember when Andrew Romine played all nine positions in one MLB game?

Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla transformed the Tango by blending jazz-infused solos and riffs with orchestrated classical music, influencing a new generation of Tango composers, including the elastically generative Tango trip-hop collective… Read the rest of the article: Astor Piazzolla, "The Central Park Concert," 1987

Self-identified people of God, self-proclaimed mystics, and conspiracy theorists have been hyping and hawking Christian Science and snake oil spirituality with healing properties since at least the early part of… Read the rest of the article: Conspirituality: A podcast that dismantles New Age cults, wellness grifters, and conspiracy-mad yogis

Pillows and politics are two words that can lead in many directions. Whether scandals between the sheets or, with new textiles and designs, functionalities, and materials for comfort and health,… Read the rest of the article: New pillow for middle-aged Italian men who just moved out of their parent's house

How do you define the economic, political, and cultural system named capitalism that organizes the world? A system contested and imposed through media, policies, laws, and forgeries of memory.and meaning.… Read the rest of the article: The failed promises of exporting American-style capitalism

The Christian Crusades from 1095-1291 against Muslim and Arab peoples have a continued impact today. Establishing a precedent where wars were fought in the name of a Christian God, wars… Read the rest of the article: The language used by contemporary Christian warriors

The American cultural industry, particularly Hollywood, makes up and reproduces stereotypes of people and nations all over the world. Though not pioneered by Disney, cultural misrepresentations are often, sadly, the… Read the rest of the article: Short mockumentary film about the cheese-making, gun-toting, Rock n Roll dairy farmers of France

In an Instagram clip, professional BMX rider and X Game Medalist Anthony Napolitan marks his trajectory and sets off to drop in the bowl, gain momentum and speed, and then launch… Read the rest of the article: Groin cringe warning: X Game Medalist Anthony Napolitan was centimeters away from death by impalement

There is no blue or red pill like there is no spoon. It's all purple haze. Classical liberal enlightenment thought as distilled through political pundits, free-market professors of all disciplines,… Read the rest of the article: How to read Donald Duck 50 years after the CIA fomented a coup in Chile on September 11, 1973

The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. What images do these words invoke? Are they different after the movies about the Black Panther comic book, particularly the one with the CIA… Read the rest of the article: Lumpen: the politically infused funk music band of the Black Panther Party

Star Wars-themed sneakers and sneaker collaborations are not new. Vans, Nike, DC Shoes (with a distinctive Boba Fett capsule), and Adidas (with this clean, eco-friendly "Yoda" Stan Smith model) have… Read the rest of the article: Milan Jaram creates Star Wars sneakers with AI

If your institution receives state funding, a Republican lawmaker from North Dakota, David Clemons, "would fine people $1,500 if they refer to trans people using their correct pronouns, rather than… Read the rest of the article: North Dakota Republicans propose $1500 fines for using pronouns that upset them

Before there were prisons, there were plantations that held people captive andw enslaved. Before enslaved people freed themselves and then were emanicipated, the prison population was almost entirely white. After… Read the rest of the article: "Growing Chains": Prison Agriculture and Capitalism

In the 1989 Stone Roses song "What the World is Waiting For," Ian Brown sings, "Stop the worldStop the worldI'm getting off … I'm getting off … Can't get enoughI'm… Read the rest of the article: The earth's core may have reversed direction.

"The only reason workers are quiet quitting is because they cannot afford loud quitting." As labor unions experience a resurgence in interest in manufacturing, higher education, the service industry, and… Read the rest of the article: Quiet quitters of the world, unite and take over!

"Al Jazeera 101 East" presents a new documentary about the death penalty and Singapore's deadly drug war. While reams of research have demonstrated that the death penalty does not deter… Read the rest of the article: Documentary about Singapore's deadly drug war

"The grabbing hands grab all they canEverything counts in large amountsThe grabbing hands grab all they canEverything counts in large amounts." Electronifying genres, British mega-band Depeche Mode's Construction Time Again… Read the rest of the article: It's been forty years since Depeche Mode's "transitional" Construction Time Again

I appreciate books that bust myths about social issues in society. Myths function as meaning-making events that extend a false, incomplete, and often compromised narrative perpetually into the future. Perpetuating… Read the rest of the article: "Prisons Make Us Safer" tackles myths of mass incarceration

If you went to primary or secondary school in the US or watched any mainstream movie that discusses the past, you learned the white-washed patriotic uplifting (for some) story of… Read the rest of the article: The long arc of counter-revolution to fascism, according to historian Gerald Horne