Французский пилот формулической команды Haas Ромен Грожан предотвратил попытку ограбления своей квартиры. Об этом сообщила супруга гонщика Марион. Грабители пытались проникнуть в дом супружеской четы, но Грожан встал у них на пути и обратил в бегство. "Спортсменов часто считают героями, но я

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men,” the poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote in her piercing and prescient 1914 anthem against silence. Half a century later, these words would come to embolden one of the most revolutionary

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings Art is both foreground and background to all social change, the fulcrum by which we raise our personal and political standards, the wheel that propels every revolution — in thought, in feeling, in the constellation of customs, beliefs, principles,

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble,” Margaret Fuller — one of the central figures in my book Figuring — wrote in her epoch-making 1845 treatise Woman in the Nineteenth Century, insisting that the “improvement in the daughters

Third Kavanaugh accuser Julie Swetnick just validated claims that she should be criminally prosecuted for lying in her initial sworn account alleging that Trump SCOTUS pick Brett Kavanaugh participated in "gang rapes" with his high school buddies back in the early 1980s. In an interview with NBC