Troubled Times At Ridgemont High The American school system is broken. For God’s sake, stop fixing it.
Odd Gods, God’s Odds Four-player God-minton. Sam Harris & Michael Shermer versus Jean Houston Deepak & Chopra over God’s existence. God abstains from judgment.
Reason & Religion: Odd Couple Redux Reza Aslan and Sam Harris discuss religion and reason. Let’s hug it out, bitches.
Say, lovely woman, the number of bees: Bhaskara’s Lilavati Is math dirrty? Bhaskaracharya’s great mathematics textbook Lilavati gets it absolutely right. Be prepared to get moist.
William Makepeace Thackeray: The Indian In The Closet Miscegenation — racial mixing — is a recurring theme in Thackeray’s works. Strangely enough, the most obvious explanation is also a plausible one.
Tribhanga: Strike A Pose The tribhanga pose — contrapposto — is a very common feature of South-asian art. It has intriguing connections (and differences) with Greek conceptions of the ideal. This is a look at some of them.
Kolam: What The Hand Said Kolams are curvilinear shapes drawn by Tamil women, usually early in the morning and usually just outside the house. Kolams have fascinating relationships with the labyrinths of Crete, sona drawings of the Chockwe and picture grammars.
