Gamerman delves into these issues, and the often-colorful characters driving the story. There’s Jarrett and his dutiful ...

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Cheating is a worldwide phenomenon, and is a challenge even here in the United States, but in Asia it has reached near-crisis levels. Last year, riots broke out when teachers at a school in Zhongxiang ...

The Toei-produced, female-driven, action/exploitation films known as “Pinky Violence” reached their crescendo in the late 1970s – and are almost single-handedly responsible for the first wave of ...

Filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu once said: “Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves.” The precious images and storylines that are cleverly woven together to present a feast for the ...

Our culture is obsessed with the idea of originality. We want things, people, and ideas to be fresh, new and authentic. We prize individuality and like people pushing into unseen territories, at least ...

(Autochrome of a fisherman and his wife in Volendam, the Netherlands, 1919--Source.) By the time of Albert Kahn’s death in 1940, the French banker and philanthropist had amassed a collection of more ...

Grand Cayman Island, famously described as a sunny place for shady people, owes its extraordinary rise and equally spectacular fall to three people: expat lawyer Bill Walker, best-selling novelist ...

In the 1936 screwball comedy mystery The Ex-Mrs. Bradford, Dr. Lawrence Bradford (William Powell) asks his ex-wife, the rich mystery writer Paula (Jean Arthur), “What is a cocktail dress?” She replies ...

Images have long provided a means of protesting political regimes bent on censoring language. In the 1830s a band of French caricaturists, led by Charles Philipon, weaponized the innocent image of a ...

This article by David Robson was originally published in Mosaic Science. It’s republished here with permission under a Creative Commons license. General anesthesia is supposed to make surgery painless ...

In the golden haze of travel blogs and Instagram feeds, the digital nomad lifestyle gleams like a mirage of modern freedom: a laptop perched on a sunlit terrace, the hum of an exotic city in the ...