How Animated Superhero Body Designs Have Changed Through the Decades
As cultural standards for bodies change, so to do the idealized ones we see on TV—and that includes our favorite superhero ...
'I swapped nights out to become a Dry Robe wearing sea swimmer and never looked back'
ChronicleLive business reporter Coreena Ford tried sea swimming with her cousin around four years ago and has never looked ...
13 Body Horror Movies With Substance
The Substance, starring Demi Moore, is the rarest of all Oscar contenders: not just a horror film, but a bit of gory, gnarly ...
The Artists Finding New Ways to Depict the Human Body
At a time of increasing anxiety about physical anatomy, figurative sculptors are breathing new life into one of the world’s ...
Psychology Today8h
Humans and Elephants: We’re Not So Exceptional After All
A new book offers an unsettling account of human exceptionalism and shows that the unique ways we gamble with risks and move out of our comfort zones may yet be our downfall.
Smithsonian Magazine11h
Why Does Laughter Have Such a Strange Power Over Us?
There’s nothing like getting caught in a giggle loop, where the desire to laugh builds until it bursts out at a disastrous moment. Only then do we often realize that laughter is a rather strange ...
Fashioning Wonder: Colleen Hill’s Immersive Cabinet Of Fashion Curiosities
For the Museum at FIT, Dr. Colleen Hill has curated an immersive new exhibit which encourages visitors to consider material objects through a new lens.