Opinion
History Meets the Strangest Animated GIFs
We dare you not to be fascinated by the wacky and amazing animated GIFs of Kevin Weird.
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Opinion
Hole-y Terror and Evolution
OAKLAND, Calif. — Many common phobias make intuitive sense. Fear of snakes, fear of spiders, fear of heights — it's easy to understand that these crippling phobias emerge from natural cautions we've inherited from millions of years of evolution.
Opinion
The Literal Floating World of Video Games in Ukiyo-E Art
OAKLAND, California — Ukiyo-e Heroes, a new series by American artists Jed Henry and Dave Bull, continues the ukiyo-e form with video game characters.
News
LA's Murals to Return with New Ordinance
OAKLAND, Calif. — For the past ten years, LA's murals have been an endangered species.
Opinion
The Ongoing Importance of Libraries
OAKLAND, Calif. — Take a stroll downtown or to your nearest shopping center, and you'll see firsthand that big bookstores are on the decline. But that doesn't mean books — and the spaces in which we consume them — have less importance.
Opinion
Lisa Frank and Our School-Supplies Nostalgia
OAKLAND, Calif. — Fall in the United States marks the annual rite of purchasing school supplies; Americans spent over $70 billion in 2012, if you count college students. The National Retail Federation notes that families spend nearly $650 on average.
Art
Mongol Conquest and Genghis Khan's Squandered Cultural Legacy
OAKLAND, California — Nobody knows where Genghis Khan's body is, but there's plenty of evidence of his DNA. A staggering report noted that some 16 million people can thank the Khan for their heritage. That's roughly 1 in 200 men in the world.
Opinion
Finally, a Mobile Way to Explore Nollywood
Chew on this … the Nigerian film industry, aka "Nollywood," overtook Hollywood in 2009 in terms of the number of films produced, and it is outdone only by Bollywood.
Opinion
Chinese Artists to Host a North Korean Film Festival
You likely won't hear about it on the festival circuit, but one of the most exclusive international venues can be found in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea.
Opinion
Reflecting China's Missing Lakes
LOS ANGELES — That Chinese cities are incredibly polluted is a fact that any visitor to the country must accept. From dead pigs in the water to brown in the skies, pollution is both backdrop and foreground to contemporary Chinese life.
Opinion
Photos About Mental Health
Maybe there's something to Lana Del Rey's "Summertime Sadness" song: summer can sometimes be an intense, heavy season, so perhaps that is why two recent articles have been dipping their toes into the pool of complex emotion that is contemporary life.
Opinion
What Happens When Literature Enters the Public Domain?
"Work that fails to enter a canon — literary, historical, or otherwise — tends to languish on the dustier shelves of college libraries. Digitization allows a new generation of scholars to look at them with fresh regard."