“Where did you first learn about sex?” asks Jennifer Weiner in the New York Times. In her opinion piece, “We Need Bodice-Ripper Sex Ed,” she suggests that many of the problems being brought to light by the #MeToo movement could… Continue Reading
England’s Hellfire Club Books has announced the publication of Secret Symbols of the Hell Fire Club by Eamonn Loughran in both leather and cloth bound editions. The publisher site says: “Each [edition] incorporates 258 pages and over 140 colour and black… Continue Reading
Liber Oz states: 3. Man has the right to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will. These rights… Continue Reading
Today, January 23, is National Pie Day in the United States, not to be confused with Pi Day, which is March 14. According to one story, school teacher named Charlie Papazian declared National Pie Day for the first time in… Continue Reading
Seeking the Marvellous: Ithell Colquhoun, British Women and Surrealism conference – 22 & 23 March 2018 Seeking the Marvellous is a two-day interdisciplinary symposium that will examine the work of Ithell Colquhoun (1906 – 1988) and other women connected… Continue Reading
The Institute of Art & Ideas reports that the works of Camus and Spinoza are banned from Turkish libraries. An excerpt of the report reads: “It is indeed quite absurd – but not in the sense which Albert Camus deemed… Continue Reading
..or, more accurately, women’s brain activity is more pronounced than that of men during sexual arousal. A study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine by Mayte Parada, Marina Gérard, Kevin Larcher, Alain Dagher, and Yitzchak M. Binik showed that women’s… Continue Reading
In the mid-20th century, a team of Mormon explorers including Thomas Stuart Ferguson traveled to Central America seeking to find archaeological proofs for passages in the Book of Mormon describing Bountiful, one of the areas initially settled by an ancient… Continue Reading
Earlier today, the Ivy Arts Centre at the University of Surrey was the site of a day-long investigation of “the intersections of performance, philosophy and ‘spirit’ in the lives and works of three key figures: the dance theorist Rudolf Laban, the… Continue Reading
Today, January 19, is popcorn day! The Popcorn Board, an alliance of popcorn companies in the United States, has no information on the origins of the day, stating, “Some other individual or organization (with obvious good taste) began this tradition.”… Continue Reading