Oct 4th, 2008 · Four Last Songs, by German composer Richard Strauss, is a song cycle marked by the awareness and acceptance of death. A new recording captures world-famous soprano Renee Fleming as she sings his last pieces for a second time — this time with a new direction.
Oct 3rd, 2008 · A recent study found that volunteers conditioned to feel a lack of control were more likely to see patterns that didn't exist. Faced with powerlessness, the human mind seems to make up patterns to explain the world around it.
Oct 2nd, 2008 · An epidemic of sudden blindness pushes society to the brink in a new thriller from the director of City of God and The Constant Gardener; Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo star.
Oct 2nd, 2008 · This Saturday, Alaskans will be watching the state's first-ever high school football playoff game north of the Arctic Circle. The Barrow Whalers host the top-of-the-world game against the Houston Hawks.
Oct 2nd, 2008 · Julianne Moore plays a seeing woman in a sightless world in Blindness, the film adaptation of Jose Saramago's apocalyptic novel. She describes working with director Fernando Meirelles on the eerie film about an epidemic of "White Sickness."
Oct 2nd, 2008 · The global community has always struggled with developing strategies that help stop violence and create peace. Jane Holl Lute, the new head of the United Nation's Peacebuilding Commission, on what it takes to keep the peace, and what can be done to sustain peace in countries throughout the world.
Oct 1st, 2008 · The Atlanta rapper has picked up a pad of paper for the first time since 2001 (a change from writing and keeping his lyrics in his head), and the result is a blur of intricately constructed rhymes. Paper Trail is an intensely personal album with a couple of commercial smashes muddying the waters; on the posse cut "Swagga Like Us," T.I. raps circles around three of the most popular rappers in the world.
Oct 1st, 2008 · In his new book, Wall Street: America's Dream Palace, Steve Fraser focuses on the lotus of the financial world, paying attention to four of its archtypal characters — the aristocrat, the confidence man, the hero and the immoralist.