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Published June 25, 2021 at 2:36 PM CDT Listen • 24:32 / Dive into a good beach read this summer with recommendations from two local librarians, Jen Ohzourk and Jennifer Alexander. What makes a good summer read? For St. Louis Public Library regional branch manager Jen Ohzourk, it’s a book that is captivating, escapist, and easy to put down and pick back up again later — perhaps after a swim or bike ride. On Friday’s St. Louis on the Air, Ohzourk and St. Loui...

Librarians Jennifer Alexander and Jen Ohzourk share their favorite beach reads of all time on St. Louis on the Air.

The Belfast Cowboy goes full white Van man on his bewilderingly silly new album

Last modified on Thu 6 May 2021 08.36 EDT Even a man as implacably opposed to lockdown as Van Morrison – who spent 2020 releasing songs rubbishing science as “crooked facts”, mocking people for wearing masks and describing the government as “fascist bullies” while also invoking the Berlin Wall – might be forced to concede it had its advantages. After all, it gave him the time to write the material for Latest Record Project Volume 1, a 28-song, two-hour-plus opus th...

Van Morrison Delivers Some Self-Aware Soul on New Song Latest Record Project Track will appear on singers upcoming album of the same name Jon Blistein, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Latest Record Project: Volume 1, set to arrive May 7th via Exile/BMG. “Latest Record Project” is a cheeky bit of classic yet self-aware soul. It finds Morrison pairing vintage sonics — Hammond organ, shuffling drums, backing vocalists cooing “sha-la-la” — with the musings of an artist who has a back ...

Crisis or opportunity? Ursuline College aims to help women in workplace during coronavirus pandemic Updated Mar 07, 2021; Posted Mar 03, 2021 Sister Christine DeVinne is president of Ursuline College, which offers an Institute for Women, Wellness and Work to support women in their careers and life. Facebook Share Why? Someone had to do it, says Denise Reading. Reading is a social entrepreneur instrumental to Ursuline College’s Institute for Women, Wellness and Work, which aims to support wo...

As a growing chorus of voices calls for systemic change to address the systemic problems of sexism and racism in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM), the SEA Change initiative at the American Association for the Advancement of Science aims to support educational institutions as they transform into diverse, equitable, and inclusive spaces. SEA (STEMM Equity Achievement) Change was formally launched by AAAS in 2017 but is the culmination of a careers work in the ma...

Almudena Sevilla, Sarah Smith The economic recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic stands in stark contrast to previous recessions in that it has disproportionately impacted womens employment. Alon et al. (2020a) find that prior to 2020, recent recessions have either depressed mens employment more than women’s or had a roughly equal impact. On the contrary, in the 2020 recession, the female unemployment rose by 2.9 percentage points more than the male unemployment rate at its peak (Alon et...

The past lives of Europe’s most intriguing art spaces The past lives of Europe’s most intriguing art spaces We track down the most distinctive, weird and wonderful art gallery transformations in Europe The vacant Cisternerne in Copenhagen. Photography: Johan Rosenmunthe From resurrected churches to roller skating rinks, subterranean reservoirs to power plants, we reflect on the past lives, and reincarnations of Europe’s most extraordinary contemporary art exhibition spaces defying t...

To be able to navigate through. people should be nice to their staffs. male and female. a problem for her that she was not more attentive to this issue. but also a problem for all of us in society. >> what a double bind for women, right, in so many ways. we find with men, men are also subjected to assessment about whether theyre likable. al gore was not as likable as bush in 2000. but we find in research that voters judge women differently. vo voters will support a male candidate they dont like ...