Aram Zucker-Scharff

I really like No Man’s Sky. I mean, closing in on 50 play hours like it. This is, so far, the closest any piece of writing has gotten to explaining why. “No Man’s Sky is that moment of disorientating newness repeated over and over again. I fly a spaceship from planet to planet to planet, […]

“The vast majority of my colleagues are swimming in student debt. The way things are right now obligates students to take out large amounts of debt to eat and live. There are students who are not going to find jobs that pay enough to pay that back.” Grad students who work as teaching and research […]

“We all know that the Frank children were murdered by the Nazis, but what is less known is the way Anne’s fate was sealed by a callous fear of refugees, among the world’s most desperate people. “Sound familiar?” Indifference and paranoia are shaping America’s immigration policy, as they did during World War II. via Facebook […]

“More than half of the city [of Amatrice] has completely collapsed.” The shallow quake struck early Wednesday southeast of Perugia, the capital of the Umbria region. The mayor of Amatrice in Lazio said his town “isn’t there any more.” via Facebook http://ift.tt/2bQXozH through IFTTT