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Evan Gershkovich Covered Repressed Russian Journalists. Now They Are Covering Him.
Evan Gershkovich’s work for The Wall Street Journal included reporting on Russians’ efforts to help others who were being repressed. Russian journalists are now scrutinizing his arrest as a brazen attack on press freedom.
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Surrogacy Emerges as the Wedge Issue for Italy’s Hard Right
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has ordered municipalities to stop certifying foreign birth certificates for same-sex couples who used surrogacy, leaving some babies in a legal limbo.
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As Temperatures Rise, Melbourne’s Bats Get Their Own Sprinkler System
On the hottest days, a refreshing mist will cool down flying foxes, which have suffered mass death in Australian heat waves.
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Empathy Machine: Diary of a Country Priest
Roger Ebert died ten years ago today. He was a friend and mentor to a lot of people. I might have described Roger as a friend and mentor even if I hadn’t ended up getting to know him, taking part in EbertFest at the invitation of Chaz Ebert, then becoming editor-in-chief of this site for…
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A Return to the Presence of Love
Can it really be 10 years since my husband Roger departed this earth? The day before he transitioned, I sat with Roger beside his bed in what was then known as the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (now the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab). We were both in good spirits having visited with friends who had come to…
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Ten Years of Presence: In Honor of Roger Ebert and the Empathy Machine
“Movies indeed are empathy machines, but they’re also therapy. As much as they open our minds to new experiences, sometimes we need their help to restore us, to tap into those places we’re otherwise not ready to go.” -Valerie Kalfrin (Contributor) “In his stories about people who live far away, you recognize, in one way…
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Diary of a Country Priest
We are republishing this review in honor of the 10th anniversary of the passing of Roger Ebert. Read why one of our contributors chose this review here. The young priest only smiles once. It is on the day he leaves the cruel country town to catch a train and see a doctor. A passing motorcyclist…
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Cloud Atlas
We are republishing this review in honor of the 10th anniversary of the passing of Roger Ebert. Read why one of our contributors chose this review here. Even as I was watching “Cloud Atlas” the first time, I knew I would need to see it again. Now that I’ve seen it the second time, I…
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Einstein tilings – the amazing “Hat” shape that never repeats!
Imagine tiling a whole football field using a single shape… yet not being able to produce a repeating pattern, even if you wanted to.
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Big Dairy Is Trying to Get Gen-Z to Drink More Milk
Alarmed by dwindling sales to Gen Z, the dairy industry is going all out to get younger Americans on the milk train.