Last weekend, my family took a quick trip from Germany to the Netherlands. While there, we experienced the first weekend of Keukenhof, the world-famous tulip festival. I had a vision in my head about how our afternoon would go. We’d walk through the garden, soak in the sunshine, smell flowers, and take cute pictures for my kids’ photobooks and my Instagram feed. Then, as often is the case, real life happened.
(Warner Bros.) ♫All I wanna do when I wake up in the morning is see your eyes. Rosanna, Rosanna♫ Contrary to popular belief, the lyrics to Toto’s classic 1982 pop single ‘Rosanna’ aren’t entirely about actress Rosanna Arquette. The song was written by the band’s keyboardist and main songwriter David Paich, who used various past girlfriends as inspiration for the words. The title, however, is a reference to the famous Rosanna, who was dating David’s bandmate and fellow keyboardist Steve Porcaro at the same time the song and accompanying album ‘Toto IV’ were recorded.
Columbo was one of the most epic and entertaining TV shows of all time. It was different from a traditional TV show in that each episode was like a movie, running between 70 and 97 minutes, and the series aired sporadically, initially about once a month as part of NBC’s weekly “Mystery Movie” special. The pilot, Prescription: Murder, aired as a self-contained TV movie in 1968, but the show didn’t start running semi-regularly until 1971.
Luana S. Maroja is a renowned evolutionary biologist, Professor of Biology, and Chair of the Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Program at Williams College. She was taken aback when the Society for the Study of Evolution released a statement promoting sex as a spectrum and declaring the validity of “lived experience” in sexual identity. What would inspire such a misguided, conspicuously anti-scientific declaration? In this conversation with Peter, she answers that question. Share In plain language, Luana explains chromosomal differences in mammals and how the sex binary is expressed in animals.
When I opened my email a few days ago, this headline from Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service appeared in my inbox: “Patient Safety Concerns Raised About New Granite Hills Hospital.” I was of course horrified, but not surprised. It is a story that is all too familiar to me, as a long-time tracker of psych hospitals and what occurs within their walls. As a witness to, and survivor of, what happens in such places.