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This year, Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving Day on the 26th of November. In the United States, Thanksgiving Day is celebrated as a way of giving thanks to food collected from a good harvest in 1621.

Recently excavated Mayan murals are giving archaeologists a rare look into the lives of ordinary ancient Maya.

Q. What is psychology's contribution to the intriguing list of "Magic Sevens"? Clue: Do you have trouble remembering 10-digit phone numbers? A. Researcher George Miller enshrined our recall capacity as "the Magical Number Seven, plus or minus two," says David G. Myers in "Psychology in Everyday Life." Typically, we can store only about seven ...

Abstract The increasing presence of the Internet in our everyday life raises important questions about what it means for access to resources, social interaction, and commitment to local community.

Washington's popular Capital Fringe Festival is having a mini-encore, Fall Fringe , November 11-22 with 30 performances of three shows.

Paul Wilkes just got an email from his publisher. His latest book, "In Due Season" was included in the "Religion" section of the "Best Books of 2009" rundown in the Nov.

Regardless of what you feel should or should not be private, we all have a right to set expectations that we trust will be met.

An unorthodox architectural exhibition has come to Sofia for the second annual Sofia Architecture Week.

The Amon Carter Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York have arranged a temporary trade of a couple of masterworks from each collection.

Over the last few weeks, I have been trying to get caught up on my business book reading - I was SOOO behind.

Fanfarlo @ The Bell House in September Oh boy, how is CMJ here already? Whether you have a badge or not, there's lots and lots of good stuff to see.

Publisher: W.W. Norton, 416 pages, $28.95. Review: One of Ireland's leading Joyce scholars walks the reader through "Ulysses," explaining and calming.

Filed under: in the news... Julian Treasure, a corporate consultant on sound environments, gave a TED talk explaining how we are influenced by audio.

There's a lot to see and think about in "American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, more than can fit into a newspaper review , more perhaps than any individual can specify.

To come of age -- esthetically speaking -- during the second half of the 20th century was, in many ways, to learn to circumvent common sense.

"American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915" is a wild ride. It fills nine galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with 103 paintings that the museum calls "iconic." Generally the claim is justified.

The idea that an artist should tell a good yarn is now so profoundly out of fashion that the Metropolitan Museum a s new exhibition, American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915 , seems practically countercultural.

From the decade before the Revolutionary War to the eve of World War I, many of America's most revered artists captured the temperament of their respective eras on canvas.

But what really makes a quality iPhone app?A In the case of www.i5labs.com and their new sound box app, www.i5labs.com/zing , it's a flash of brilliance, a lot of hard work, and a little help from one of the best-known Asian American musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Featuring four distinguished authors reading in English under the theme "As the World Turns: Tales of Changes and Transformations" OSAKA, JAPAN, October 7, 2009 - The internationally acclaimed and award-winning literary series Four Stories, which runs free events in Boston , Osaka, and Tokyo , kicks off its next event in Umeda , Osaka , on November ...