For as long as we humans have been making art, we've been making art about the things that scare us. Horror as a genre has existed in every form, from macabre paintings to spooky songs to the tremendously popular horror movies that have terrified generations of thrillseekers who love the creeping dread of heroes pitted against monsters of every shape and size. Many different aspects of our culture have been indelibly marked by horror -- including the seemingly innocent and innocuous board game. Of course, there are plenty of movies about games turning deadly, but we're not talking about your ouija boards or even party games like "Bodies Bodies Bodies." No, we're here to discuss friends turning into traitorous villains, vintage...
Static electricity is great for science experiments; it’s easy to create, is safe and can be used in many different ways. We’ve used static electricity to bend water, make tissue paper jump up to a balloon and create some crazy hairstyles! These static electricity snakes use tissue paper like my jumping frogs, but this time the tissue paper is cut into a snake shape. When a ruler charged with static electricity is placed over the snake, it can be pulled upwards. How to make static electricity snakes You’ll need Tissue paper Ruler Woolly jumper or hair Felt tip pen Instructions Carefully cut a snake spiral out of the tissue paper, this can be any size you want. Decorate the snake...
Alex Cochran, Deseret News Amid talk that the GOP could rebrand itself as the “parents party,” on the political right there’s a growing drumbeat of support for policies like paid family leave and monetary help for families. Those join what have typically been more cultural concerns like bolstering marriage or managing how children use tech.A new report by two conservative organizations highlights pro-family policies that seem to offer a meeting place for progressives and conservatives. The report’s author, Patrick T. Brown, a fellow with the Ethics and Public Policy Center, calls ”Five Pro-Family Priorities for the 118th Congress and Beyond” a roadmap “for an authentically pro-family Congress to champion.” In the report, the center is joined by the Institute for...
How do you distill love? Books, TV shows and movies for time immemorial have attempted this feat, and yet, and yet, and yet, I didn’t expect to find one of its most perfect — at least in my eyes — distillations in a theater in Princeton, New Jersey. When I found out that Kathryn Grody and Mandy Patinkin were going to put on a Valentine’s Day show in my new home state, it felt like bashert. My husband, aware that the two were my favorite pandemic comfort power couple, insisted on buying us tickets. With a babysitter booked and my girliest puff sleeves dress on, we had perhaps the most romantic Valentine’s Day ever (to be fair, that’s not a...
The Instagram app icon is shown on the screen of a mobile device in New York on Aug. 23, 2019.Jenny Kane, Associated Press We all know that teen girls are suffering today. But last week’s report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that nearly 3 in 5 — 57% — of teen girls in the United States felt “persistently sad or hopeless” and that 30% of them had seriously considered attempting suicide. The mental health of our young people is spiraling out of control. Though boys are also struggling, as indicated by a persistent and growing gender achievement gap, the rate of depression among girls is double that of boys and has increased nearly 60% over the...
