SCULPTING SILENCE -- THE ASL STORY
How American Sign Language came out of a small town to speak volumes and change lives.
FROM THE LONG END OF THE SCOPE
When it comes to forward thinking, the Long Now Foundation has plenty of time.
THE FUTURE ACCORDING TO KIDS
Naive and innocent, perhaps, but the future once called to children. And now?
TIME IN A BOTTLE
Seeds of hope, links to the future, the world’s time capsules number 15,000. And counting.
TOWARD A HISTORY OF THE FUTURE
The Future has a past that can teach us how to hope again. Onwards.
WHERE THE FUTURE STUDIED
During dark times, an upstart college dared to open the doors to the future — of art, dance, poetry, music. . .
THINKING OUTSIDE THE TOOLBOX
Matthew B. Crawford, Ph.D can fix your Harley, but can he fix the American malaise?
SEQUOYAH AND THE "TALKING LEAVES"
The miracle of writing evaded the natives until one man made the leap.
WHERE LIGHT AND LIGHTNING RULE
Lightning may not strike often, but “The Lightning Field” electrifies the New Mexico desert.
CELEBRATING SCHLOCKY SENTENCES
Beyond “dark and stormy night,” “bad lit” contests made purple prose proliferate.
"MR. URBAN LEGEND" AND THE LIES THAT BIND
When Jan Harold Brunvand heard the same stories from students, he began collecting “urban legends.” They are too much with us now.
SWINGIN' WITH THE SWEETHEARTS
Big Bands were all male, all white. Then from the shadows of Jim Crow came the International Sweethearts of Rhythm.
A LEARNED JUDGE AND HIS "POETRY OF LIBERTY"
With America at war, Judge Learned Hand deftly defined “The Spirit of Liberty”
HOW BURNING MAN GOT SO HOT
From a small bonfire on a beach, Burning Man has grown to 75,000 joyous Burners in the Nevada desert. Why not?
"IN PRAISE OF BOREDOM"
Dartmouth grads expected the usual boring commencement speaker. But Joseph Brodsky spoke about boredom itself, aka “your window on time.”