As I prepare to leave Philadelphia, I decided to watch this documentary a professor recommended. 

Documentarian Nathaniel Kahn examines the life and career of his father, architect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974), whose work included the Salk Institute and the Parliament and Capitol Buildings in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Among other surprising facts, the Oscar-nominated film reveals that the elder Kahn died of a heart attack in a Penn Station bathroom, unidentified and broke despite having been one of the century’s most influential visionaries.

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23 celebrated cartoonists, including Art Spiegelman and Roz Chast, unite to demand action against gun violence. 

A a time when 33 people are murdered with guns every day in America and homicide rates in the United States exceed those of other high-income nations by 690%, it’s tragic how little progress we’ve made since 1944. 

Also see Stephen King on gun control and violence. 

Sign the petition to end gun violence here and consider sparing your daily coffee in donating to the cause.

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Privately Owned Public Open Spaces: They loof like public, feel like public, but they are not public spaces.

The price of free-parking

Desperate for tourism, hundreds of small towns across the U.S.A. claim the “world’s largest” something from 15-foot fiberglass strawberries to 40-foot concrete pheasants. Odd, funny and sometimes beautiful, the statues stand as testaments to the uniqueness and importance - the largeness - that all people feel, and need to feel, about their communities and their own existence.

World’s Largest, a feature documentary, visits 58 such sites and profiles Soap Lake, Washington’s four-year struggle to build the World’s Largest Lava Lamp. By documenting these roadside attractions, World’s Largest captures the changing landscape of small-town America.

Sin Ken Robinson animated.

Ask your own questions

Sugata Mitra from Newcastle University explains the difference between self-organized learning and self-studying.

A beautiful incentive to drawing by Studio Shelter.