The internet shutdown in Afghanistan happened in real time in my online poetry class on Monday. The women's accounts dropped out one by one. The last to go was Neda. Just before her image froze, I promised to put her poem on Twitter. She's 11. Online was her last hope of

Warren Buffetts’s solution to end the US government shut down: "I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that any time there’s a deficit of more than three percent of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election." Do you

#math #physics 👍👏

It won't be long till only old people like us get this joke. It's brilliant.

Jane Goodall had a remarkable ability to inspire us to connect with the natural wonders of our world, and her groundbreaking work on primates and the importance of conservation opened doors for generations of women in science. Michelle and I are thinking of all those who loved

She was born in England in the '30s. Her father left the family, and her mother raised her and her sister. Her mother couldn't afford to send her to college, and besides, in that time, only 1-in-10 English women went on to be college students. So, she worked a series of

“Not a stream, but an ocean.” Beethoven’s words on Bach. The journey of Opus 109 begins here, with the consoling Prelude in E Major from the Well-Tempered Clavier I. Listen & pre-order here: dg.lnk.to/Vikingur-Opus1… #Bach #Opus109 #NewMusic

I still think about you. 41 years later. That's the impact the power of your compassion made on me. You inspired me to be a good human. #LunchLady

These so-called "DEMOCRAT AGENCIES"... -Ensure our food is safe to eat -Keep our air and water clean -Alert us to natural disasters -Protect us from financial fraud and scammers Remember what Trump is actually attacking.

Phonics work. Who knew? 🤷‍♂️ (#Irony)

We aren't learning.

“I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.” -- Werner Heisenberg

#math #physics Here's one Newton statement where Leibniz couldn't claim equal priority.

Indeed the dance card

#math #physics #classicalmusic #opera World-famous cellist Steven Isserlis is a perpetual ad for learning to play small musical instruments. If your latest airline experience is comparable to one on British Airways, you might wish you had taken up the piccolo instead. 😬

Portland anyone?!?

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Trump hates to be the object of humor. He understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism. I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]

Imagine this level of cultural moment on SNL today