Sightings
Is College Worth It? Pew's Social and Demographic Trends Examines That Financially Fraught Question
A majority of Americans (57%) say the higher education system in the US fails to provide students with good value for the money they and their families spend. A larger majority (75%) says college is too expensive to afford. An overwhelming majority of college graduates (86%) say that college has been a good investment for them personally. more »
The Ultimate Surrealist Object: Two People Inescapably Drawn to Each Other
At the center of modern art history is a love story between two artists who could not live with or without each other. The Peabody Essex Museum presents Man Ray | Lee Miller, Partners in Surrealism more »
Seafood Safety: FDA Needs to Improve Oversight of Imported Seafood
About half of the seafood imported into the US comes from farmed fish (aquaculture). Fish grown in confined aquacultured areas can have bacterial infections, which may require farmers to use drugs like antibiotics more »
Television, Music and Playwrighting: "Women Today Don't Go Away"
Maureen Dowd's NY Times column said it all about the upcoming television season quoting a TV producer. "All the big, corporate men saw Christina Hendricks play the bombshell secretary on Mad Men and fell in love. It’s a hot fudge sundae for men: a time when women were not allowed to get uppity or make demands" more »
