John Doerr Gives $1.1 Billion to Stanford for Climate School

[ad_1] Still, some question whether these philanthropic investments can make a difference when it comes to a planetary crisis. “I don’t see how giving a billion dollars to a wealthy university would set the needle in motion in the short term,” said David Callahan, author of The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy. A New Gilded …

John Waters’ First Novel Is Manic, Hyperbolic, and Perverted. Surprised?

[ad_1] LIARMUTHA Bad Romanceby John Waters240 pages. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. $26. soon Trial for Gawker, Alexandra Tanner questioned why there are so many contemporary novels about “generations of women.” It is often marketed as “.Breathtaking or attractiveThe implicit promise of these books to their mostly female readers is that by reading them, they will …

John Keats, Chopped Prose and Other Letters to the Editor

[ad_1] What Am I, Chopped Prose? To the editor: Elissa Gabbert writes in her book: lead article for poetry problem“From Ezra Pound, via Marjorie Perloff, who quotes Pound in her influential essay, ‘The Linear Fallacy’.” Considering Pound himself is arguably the greatest freelance poet in the language, that’s a surprising statement! What he actually says …

John Cho’s First Middle-Class Novel Makes ‘Good Trouble’

[ad_1] TROUBLE-MAKERJohn Cho with Sarah Suk In his note to the author’s new middle-class novel, “Troublemaker,” John Cho ponders one of the fundamental questions of children’s literature: What is appropriate for younger readers? Cho’s book, written with young adult novelist Sarah Suk, is set on the first day of the 1992 Los Angeles riot, sparked …

What Makes Severance Pay: ‘Being John Malkovich’ and Sizzler

[ad_1] For some employees, what happens in Lumon stays in Lumon. In the world of Apple TV+ series “Seniority,” They agreed to let the company implant a chip that splits their personalities so that one party will only remember what happened in the office and the other party will only exist outside. Work and life …

High-Profile Triceratops ‘Big John’ Horns Locked With Its Own Horns

[ad_1] Thanks to its dramatic museum displays, most of us can only imagine a Triceratops using its horns and sprawling neck frills to fend off a hungry Tyrannosaurus rex. But some scholars believe Triceratopses also used their deadly headgear against each other. Like dueling deer waving their antlers, Triceratopses may have interlocked their antlers to …