Thursday, December 2, 2021

Google Doodle goesneo-impressionist to celebrate artist Georges Seurat's 162nd birthday

Georges Seurat was a French painter perhaps best known for creating the masterpiece A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, a pastoral scene featuring Parisians enjoying a park.

After his first major painting, the impressionist-influenced Bathers at Asnières, was rejected by the Paris Salon in 1884, Seurat went to work on A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.

The Doodle showcases the pointillism technique, showing the Google logo gradually transformed into Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.

For his masterpiece A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, the French painter created a new technique that used dots

Monday, November 29, 2021

Ballon d'Or 2021: Who will be crowned the best footballs players

"Incredibly disappointing that the highest award for the best female players in the world is not even accessible for them to attend -- these things need to keep being highlighted as not acceptable," Rehanne Skinner, head coach of Tottenham Hotspur Women, said on Twitter.

"I don't think it's an intentional snub ... I just think that the Ballon d'Or now by definition is both a men's and women's award, and in the third season, they really

Sunday, November 28, 2021

Hanukkah Celebration, Light After Adversity

Rabbi-in-residence Avram Mlotek of Marlene Meyerson Jewish Community Center in New York City participated in virtual celebrations last year, with a latke cooking class and menorah lightings offered online.

He hopes to reach a larger audience of current and future generations of Jewish people to celebrate life and Hanukkah this year.

Friday, February 10, 2017

The Rock leg-drops Under Armour CEO for Trump comments

Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson and Steph Curry during a film shoot for Johnson's HBO Show "Ballers." Johnson and Curry have criticized Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank for comments Plank made about US President Donald Trump. Photo courtesy of Dwayne Johnson's Instagram

The backlash over supportive comments made recently by Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank on US President Donald Trump continued Thursday when two of the company's most recognizable endorsers voiced their discontent with their employer's stance.

Monday, February 6, 2017

We have a vaccine for six cancers, so why are less than half of kids getting it?


(Credit: AP/Charles Rex Arbogast)
This article was originally published on The Conversation.

Early in our careers, few of us imagined a vaccine could one day prevent cancer. Now there is a vaccine that keeps the risk of developing six Human Papillomavirus (HPV)-related cancers at bay, but adoption of it has been slow and surprising low.