January 9, 2024 • Institute Update The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the non-profit organization The Many Brains Project partnered with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) All of Us... Read more »
A magisterial comparative study, Proud to Punish recenters our understanding of modern punishment through a sweeping analysis of the global phenomenon of “rough justice”: the use of force to settle accounts and... Read more »
The first land to be colonized in the Americas was Haiti. Europeans first enslaved native Americans and captive Africans there, too. But the first permanent abolition of slavery also happened on Haiti,... Read more »
Zadie Smith, Paul Murray and Naomi Klein are among the authors who have been shortlisted for the Writers’ prize, the award previously known as the Rathbones Folio prize. Smith’s first historical novel... Read more »
Martin Scorsese says new Jesus film aims to ‘take away the negatives’ of organised religion | Movies
Martin Scorsese is to follow up his triumphant true-crime epic Killers of the Flower Moon with an 80-minute film about Jesus designed to “take away the negative[s] … associated with organised religion”.... Read more »
“When I was your age, we had to walk ten miles inside our apartments because we were quarantined.” Source link Read more »
“American Zion,” “Unshrinking,” “Termush,” and “Cross-Stitch.” Source link Read more »
Transcript Hi, my name is Annie and I’m excited to share this project with you. White matter composes about half the brain and forms pathways that are essential for communication between regions.... Read more »
At a time when movements for racial justice are front and center in U.S. national politics, this book provides essential new understanding to the study of race, its influence on people’s lives,... Read more »