How improv comedy helped a teen with autism
Source: CBC/Radio-Canada
Teens on the autism spectrum may have trouble interacting with others. The challenge of performing improv comedy can help.
Arts & Entertainment
Wonder Woman and the Importance of the Female Hero Moment
Source: Wired
What makes a summer blockbuster movie something more than mere entertainment? Read one writer’s opinion.
Emily Dickinson’s Letters
Source: The Atlantic
Dickinson’s mentor Thomas Wentworth Higginson shares his impressions of her along with several of her letters to him.
Fair is foul and foul is fair: Macbeth in Tunisia
Source: The Economist
How did a 400-year-old English drama apply to the Arab Spring?
Meet the female entrepreneurs using tech for good
Source: BBC
Combining video games with a charitable cause is something that Jude Ower is very proud of. Developing Playmob was an opportunity for Jude to utilize her technology expertise to help those in need across the world, from children to pandas!
How music benefits children
Source: The Conversation
While scientific evidence linking music education to intelligence is mixed, psychologist Dawn Rose points to studies that indicate other successful human development.
Dispatches from the Jungle: The Writers Who Reformed America
Source: Biography
Learn about five muckracking journalists who affected social change around the turn of the twentieth century.
After 41 years, Louisville’s youth theater stages all 38 plays by Shakespeare
Source: The Courier-Journal
The Commonwealth Theatre Center recently finished producing all of Shakespeare’s plays over the course of four decades. Read about the benefits of working on a Shakespeare production as a child or teenager.
About the Author: Kao Kalia Yang
Source: Coffee House Press
What are the hopes and fears someone has when she writes a book about her culture and family? In this interview, the author of The Latehomecomer discusses this question and more.
On the Bard’s birthday, is Shakespeare still relevant?
Source: The Washington Post
How can Shakespeare still be relevant in the age of the smartphone? Alexandra Petri takes a light-hearted view in this opinion piece.