The National Endowment for the Arts Is on the Chopping Block

i'm a big believer that our personal lives are inseparable from our public contribution. And i think spending time with any great artist thinker, their diaries, their letters, become so clear. But in my life, nothing i've done, including brain pickings, has come from anything other than my own need. The universe, iniverse was an event that i hosted last year, which was very much in response to what wasto the morning after the election. We just had an evening of poems that were about great scientists and scientific discoveries that have gotten us to where we are to day. Spent three months of two months of my life planning it, and and just the most upl