Retelling Romeo and Juliet at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage

Source: Stratford-upon-Avon Herald

Visitors to the historical site in England contribute their thoughts and feelings about the well-known play to re-create the story.

Poetry and the Environment

Source: Poetry Foundation

Read about the difference between nature poetry and environmental poetry and explore a curated colletion of poems.

Toil and trouble: How ‘Macbeth’ could teach computers to think

Source: The Boston Globe

Read this article to learn about a professor who is trying to teach an artificial intelligence system to interpret stories by having it read Macbeth.

What horror movies do to your brain

Source: Psychology Spot

Even though you know that what you’re seeing onscreen isn’t real, your brain can react to a horror movie as though it is.

Augmented Reality Recreates A New York City Not Seen for Centuries

Source: Futurism

Tourists of Governor’s Island can now travel back in time to the 17th century as a colonist with their own storyline and cast of characters thanks to augmented reality.

How Misty Copeland is empowering at-risk youth through dance

Source: The Guardian

For Misty Copeland and MindLeaps, dancing provides more than physical benefits. Dancing can cause changes in a child’s mindset that can change their lives for the better.

What it Means to Build Without Bias: Questioning the Role of Gender in Architecture

Source: Arch Daily

In her thesis project, graduate student Hannah Rozenberg created an algorithm to measure how male or female physical spaces are and created architectural models of gender neutral spaces.

Superheroes and the Hero Monomyth: Part I

Source: Psychology Today

Psychology professor and police chaplain Brian Kinnaird argues for the inlucsion of comic book superheroes with the great classical heroes of mythology.

Why ‘Eighth Grade’ is the most painfully real middle-school movie you’ve ever seen

Source: USA Today

Find out how director Bo Burnham ensured that his story of a teenager making the transition from middle school to high school would authentically capture the experience.

Guide to the classics: The Arthurian legend

Source: The Conversation

Are the tales of King Arthur based in fact? TL;DR: Probably not, but they’re a lot of fun!