Sady Doyle has a piece in the Atlantic about how the latest case of HIV in the porn industry has revived public concern about the lack of condoms in straight […]

While in many parts of the world today women enjoy greater power and opportunity than ever before, there are also places where women remain essentially powerless, lacking access to even basic education or human rights.

Until she was 10 years old, performance artist Marina Abramović believed her parents when they told her that her birthday was November 29th, “Republic Day” in her native Yugoslavia. They […]

For a growing number of Americans—including many in the military—October 31st is returning to its Celtic and pre-Christian roots.

Malcolm Hartley is an Australian astronomer who is best known for his discovery of 5 comets during the 1980s. He has been invited to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California […]

A bike-sharing programs and cycling infrastructure continue to slowly gain traction in cities, it often becomes a matter of making physical room for the two-wheel lifestyle and reclaiming urban space […]

In this guest post on Colorado’s Amendment 62, a ballot initiative that, if passed, would grant full legal rights to fertilized human eggs by classifying embryos as 'persons' under the […]

Alfred Hitchcock once said, “A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who […]

A study found that lap dancers make $90 more per shift when they are ovulating than when they are in their luteal stage, and $170 more than when they are in their menstrual phase.

More and more people are being born, and the Earth isn’t getting any bigger. We’re on a serious disaster course. The only thing a filmmaker can do is try to […]

The filmmaker is known for his idiosyncratic creative process in which he and his actors create the film together through workshopping and improvisation.

The filmmaker is concerned with getting to the truth about people, not about passing judgment. "Everybody is interesting, and everybody is the potential central character in a story, so judging […]

I am unashamedly in the entertainment business," says Leigh. "If a film is not entertaining, forget it, it's a failure.

The filmmaker was more influenced by the realism of the "Nouvelle Vague" of 1960s France than by the "British New Wave" or the tradition of Dickensian social realism.

The British master of suspense once said that women who spent all day doing chores wouldn’t want to watch a film about a woman doing chores. Mike Leigh begs to […]

A conversation with the filmmaker.

There is no communist or socialist ideology that is as poisonous as the one held by radical Republicans these days. No fascism as insidious as the warped political creed that […]

Eruptions Word of the Day: Harmonic Tremor and Tornillos. There are few methods that get as much attention in the world of volcanic monitoring than measuring the release of seismic […]

"Can we envision a world without God? Would this world be good?" Dutch primatologist and ethologist Frans de Waal says we are no different from apes when it comes to altruism.

"Organized religion's increasing identification with conservative politics is a turnoff to more and more young adults. Evangelical Protestantism has been hit hard by this development."