A team of archaeologists digging in southwest Spain recently made a discovery dating to the Bronze or Iron Age which may radically change our understanding of ancient gender roles in Iberian society. A stela, or funerary stone slab representing a significant individual, was discovered at the 3,000-year-old funerary complex in Las Capellanías, in Cañaveral de…
Many “buying guides” are bland and generic, but I find that I still enjoy hearing what works for the discerning creators that I follow. I went through my buying history and these are random items that I have bought myself from Amazon (no free samples) that I would gladly go out and buy again. I’ll…
This past week, The New York Times Book Review published its list of 100 Notable Books of 2023. On Tuesday, a handful of those titles will be named the Review’s 10 Best Books of the year. The list is a closely guarded secret, the product of many months of passionate closed-door debate presided over by…
For Briana Jones, a young Black mother in San Francisco, a city program called the Abundant Birth Project has been a godsend. Designed to counter the “obstetric racism” that researchers say leads a disproportionate number of African American mothers to die from childbirth, the project has provided 150 pregnant Black and Pacific Islander San Franciscans…
