Politico updates Schoolhouse Rock‘s 1976 explanation of the march of federal legislation. No wonder schools don’t teach Civics anymore.
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“Overview,” excerpt of a 2012 film by Planetary Collective. Directed by Guy Reid; edited by Steve Kennedy. Music by Human Suits.
Astronauts who have seen the Earth from space often describe the ‘Overview Effect’, an experience that has transformed their perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it, our shared home, without boundaries between nations or species.
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The Wiener Celloensemble 5 + 1, founded by the Vienna Philharmonic‘s Gerhard Kaufmann, performs Ravel’s “Bolero.”
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“The 12 Days of Waffle House Christmas,” served up by Sons-N- Britches from round ’bout Kennesaw, Georgia. That’s Christmas in the South, buddy.
Menu (mmm … cheese grits)
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“A Coronavirus Prayer,” by James Parker. Read it here.
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In the age of online documents it’s now called the Government Publishing Office, but many still think of the GPO as the Government Printing Office (founded 1861). The GPO publishes and prints the workaday documents of the federal government, but its hand binders still edge-marble some publications. A CQ Roll Call video.
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1950 to 1965: “The period when the nuclear family flourished was not normal. It was a freakish historical moment when all of society conspired to obscure its essential fragility.”
More:
“The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake,” David Brooks, The Atlantic
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“In 1937, in one of the worst civilian casualties of the Spanish Civil War, Fascist forces bombed the village of Guernica in Northern Spain. For Pablo Picasso, the tragedy sparked a frenzied period of work in which he produced a massive anti-war mural, titled “Guernica.” How can we make sense of this overwhelming image, and what makes it a masterpiece of anti-war art? Iseult Gillespie investigates.” A TED-Ed video.
Related:
“Picasso’s Guernica: 80 Years Later,” Jacque Venus Tobias, The Artifice
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HBO explores the tragedy of America’s under-funded inner-city public schools for wizards.
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