Cartoon: Putin can't relate

Daily Kos— A cartoon by Jeff Danziger. Campaign Action

TVLine—We Don’t Want So You Think You Can Dance to End — But It Can’t Go On Like This. There’s a dance-based competition show currently airing Mondays at 9 pm. New episodes land on Fox. Cat Deeley’s the host. And yet, despite those familiar trappings, or the title that runs across the screen at the start of each episode, I’m having trouble believing that the show in question is actually So You Think You […]

The Guardian—‘You can’t love something that isn’t there’: readers on how the sounds of nature have changed around them. Swallows, cuckoos, curlews – so many species have dwindled or disappeared completely, and people are mourning their loss.

The Guardian—How do you describe the view to someone who can’t see? I couldn’t even do justice to a canal towpath. A day with some blind and partially sighted walkers has shown me how much I barely notice – and how hard it is to find the right wordsHow many shades of green are there? Whatever the answer may be, I soon ran out of words to describe them. I was walking north along the Grand Union canal, trying and failing to adequately describe what I could see, to a friend who couldn’t. This was Dave Heeley, ultra-runner, who in 2008 became the first blind person to run seven marathons on seven continents in...