Investing in higher education is one of the best things that any person can do for their future. When you go to school and earn your degree, you develop crucial skills that will support you throughout the rest of your life. Alongside your valuable qu...
Activist Gloria Steinem, 86, was the first person I thought of when news broke that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died at the age of 87. The following day, I spoke with Steinem. We began with our grief and gratitude for the extraordin...
A few decades ago, climate change wasn’t taken seriously. People thought these were just bogus accusations against big companies in order to ruin their reputation and jeopardize their financial future. Today, climate change is much more difficult to...
Gig workers have been around for years. Today, we know them better as Uber, Lyft and Doordash drivers. These types of workers are not traditional, long-term employees with an established employee-employer relationship. Rather, they work for a company...
Nate Moran is an acclaimed mime and performer whose journey has been nothing short of epic. Moran is a veteran who went into the service in 1979. After his first tour of duty, he found himself struggling with addiction issues. He was homeless for a p...
Under the omnipresent dark clouds of COVID-19, with conditions ranging from dicey to dangerous, classes have resumed in myriad ways. So, let’s strike a mythic literary note. Survey courses on Western Civilization, ancient literature and mythology us...
In my recent move back to New York, I have been once again forced to reckon with how the change of pace and scenery changes my consumption of art. Of course, this list is not only a collection of works from artists I have worshipped over a period of...
Alison Clancy is a multidisciplinary artist, skilled in diverse arenas such as music, composing, writing and dancing. Originally from California, now based in New York, Clancy is a highly acclaimed dancer who is a member of Zvi Dance and is in her te...
Higher education has been in a precarious place for some time, with cuts in funding, the slow consolidation of academic positions and tenure track positions and with relying on international students for most of their revenue. Now, COVID-19 has only...
GPT-3 is a machine learning model recently released by OpenAI. It is the largest machine learning model in existence at the time of writing. It is designed to complete text, but this capability can be applied to a range of tasks as diverse as poetry,...
