Megan Power

Born to be Good by Dacher Keltner

"Human history, Glover contends, can be thought of as a contest between cruelty and compassion."

Birkhoff's Formula for Aesthetic Measure

Paul Octavious' s 51 books on love Mathematician George David Birkhoff (1884–1944) had a keen interest in aesthetics - ...
Highway Gothic and Other Iconic Typefaces

The font most commonly used on road signs and highways in Canada and the U.S. is FHWA Series E Modified . This is a sans-serif font infor...
Labov's 6 Basic Elements of Storytelling

Classifying and delineating story patterns is a vast field of study, but one of the most influential theories was written in 1972 by socioli...
Rate of Living Theory

Human Heart Andy Warhol (1979) At the beginning of the century, there was a theory about aging which was very popular. It was ...
Transcription by Ben Lerner

"—and I wept until I experienced a powerful, almost sexual relief ."