Antarctica, on average, is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent, and has the highest average elevation of all the continents. Antarctica is a desert, with annual precipitation of only 200 mm (8 in) along the coast and far less inland. The temperature in Antarctica has reached −89.2 °C (−128.6

Said Hawthorn of the new track: “To be frank, it’s the first song I wrote about sex. I was thinking about line dancing and how people — when they go to line dance, they own it, you know? They don’t care what anybody thinks. So it’s about being turned on by somebody and finding the freedom to express

In this episode of contemporary dance we present a special tribute to the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando Florida, the site of a terrible mass shooting that took place in the early morning hours of June 12, 2016, and left 49 people dead and more than 50 wounded. Chroegraphed by Paul Malek and perfo...

Volunteers are helping forgotten Dutch diarists of WWII to speak at last. Their voices, filled with anxiety, isolation and uncertainty, resonate powerfully today. Anne Frank listened in an Amsterdam attic on March 28, 1944, as the voice of the Dutch minister of education came crackling over the radi

My heart hurts for the people of Ukraine. For those saying goodbye to their loved ones as they face an uncertain future, for the children and families desperate for the safe return of their fathers and brothers, and for the loss and pain so many will suffer from this senseless war. Our prayer is fo...

critical favorite at this year's Cannes Festival, where it took the Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard, this wickedly funny and precisely observed psychodrama tells the story of a model Swedish family—handsome businessman Tomas, his willowy wife Ebba and their two blond children—on a skiing holiday in

This French video won the best Cat Award at a Minneapolis Video Cat Festival Late August, 2012. housands -- thousands! -- of Minnesotans showed up for the first-ever Internet Cat Video Festival in Minneapolis on Thursday. Many of them wore whiskers. From the New York Times:

The crowd — easily

Oceans cover 71% of the planet and are the source of life on Earth. Over a billion people, including some of the poorest in the world, depend on the oceans and wild seafood for survival. But our blue planet is under threat. Each day we remove more than the oceans can replenish. We are draining our o...

The Passover Disney Opera:
The 10 plagues came, the Egyptians proclaimed
"The Jews are all now free!" Personal liberation, like splitting your own sea. Miracles do happen, freedom comes every year Seder, matzah, wine -- Passover's here.Stuck in a rut, trapped by the grind and every time you feel y...

New song by Bono (U2) dedicated to Italian people and doctors, nurses and carers on the front line in the #coronavirus emergency. For the Italians who inspired it… for the Irish… for ANYONE who this St. Patrick’s day is in a tight spot and still singing. For the doctors, nurses, carers on the front