Minnesota's last one-room school house...
...and the woman who's been through a lot who keeps it going. Be sure to read the article and watch the accompanying video.
They may or may not be "tragic" reasons as the article is titled...
...but this lengthy piece gives five plausible explanations as to why the world's largest theme park is abandoned.
The silencing of the American college...
...is free speech taking a hit on America's campuses?
And a self-described "liberal professor"...
...identifies similar concerns.
How a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist built a Facebook community...
...from Cleveland.
Art is created in many ways...
I remember reading Charlie Chaplin's autobiography many years ago. Included was a picture of him dressed as his famous Tramp character, standing on an incomplete movie set, with a caption that said something like, "Building a set without an idea in my head." Chaplin improvised his way through what became a classic.
Chaplin didn't always create like this, as the meticulous scripts for some of his talkies show.
The fact that Chaplin was capable both of improvising like a jazz musician or meticulously planning his work testifies to his greatness as an artist. He could do it all, including musical composition.
This article from Open Culture shows us the elaborate outlines of J.K, Rowling for a portion of her fifth Harry Potter book.
The moral: Compelling art is the result of careful planning. Except when it isn't.
(You can click to enlarge the image below.)
$8.5-trillion isn't chump change...
...and that's how much of our money that the Defense Department can't account for since 1996. With Murray Blum, it makes you wonder, "Who does these books?"
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