"Have you ever had a gut feeling or butterflies in your stomach? Has hunger ever changed your mood? Our bellies and brains are physically and biochemically connected in a number of ways. As a nutritionist, microbiologist and neuroscientist, Ruairi Robertson is passionate about the link between our b...

Zaha Hadid was a prominent and somewhat controversial Iraqi-born British architect who passed away in March 2016. Her influence is still being felt today in the projects she delivered and those that continue to be progressed by her practice. Here we look at her top five greatest contributions to arc...

"Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812" is a rock opera stylized with pop effects. Its classical leanings indicate an influence by decadent Russian art songs. It sounds like Tolstoy meets "The Threepenny Opera." The script is an adaptation of Volume 2, Part 5 of Leo Tolstoy's novel "War and Pe...

Merchant and Ivory’s A Room with a View (1985), Maurice (1987), Eric Rohmer’s Pauline at the Beach (1983) and The Green Ray (1986) Jean Renoir’s A Day in the Country, Maurice Pialat’s A Nos Amours and Loulou, As in many of these films, in Call Me By Your Name “nature is a symbol of freedom” and “the

This edition of Tapestry: The Faces of AIDS focus on celebrities and AIDS. he list of famous people who have been open about their HIV diagnosis is a short one. Even among those known to us, most had their HIV status revealed either just before or after their deaths. While, sadly, many felt they ha...

The new museum, which is the key part of a beautification plan that also includes landscaping and lighting, will give the more than 4.3 million annual visitors to the Statue of Liberty the opportunity to learn about and honor the Statue's history, influence and legacy in the world. It's schedule to ...

Prof. Simon Carding, Leader of the Gut Health and Food Safety Research Programme, Institute of Food Research and Norwich Medical School at the University of East Anglia, describes our current understanding of the human gut and its relationship with its human host and introduce the provocative propos...

Tempus Quartet is a Mexican group formed more than 15 years ago by Tamaulipas musicians. They perform pop, rock and Mexican music with a special influence for the Day of Dead, like this song called La Bruja. AY! QUE BONITO ES VOLAR A LAS 2 DE LA MAÑANA. Así es como empieza esta hermosísima canción l

Haym Solomon was a Polish Jew who immigrated to New York during the period of the American Revolution, and who became a prime financier of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War against Great Britain. The creation of the Seal of the United States and Haym Solomon's involvement a...

A scientific approach to explaining the power of thought. We have all heard it before, "Your thoughts create your reality." Well, new quantum physics studies support this idea. Learn about recent research about how the mind can influence the behavior of subatomic particles and physical matter. If yo...