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The 'anti-city' country song is a well-worn trope, one that pits idyllic country life against the corruption of the city. But Aldean's controversial song reveals the dark heart of the tradition.

All those daily activities we'd rather avoid — taking the stairs, cleaning the house, etc. — have a big metabolic payoff. Non-exercise activity thermogenesis can help manage weight and boost health.

For many, the key to avoiding these record high temperatures is staying inside and blasting the AC. But what about the people whose work keeps them outside for hours at a time?

The law passed last year makes millions of veterans eligible for new benefits, including post 9/11 vets who were exposed to burn pits.

The Classical Greeks were great story tellers. We are still fascinated by Odysseus, Oedipus, Jason and the Golden Fleece, Hercules, and Orpheus, flawed heroes, who had to suffer through many trials and obstacles before reaching their goal. We love the narrative reversals on their hero’s journey. We love to see them not just being wrong but also discovering that they are wrong. Aristotle had a term for this kind of sudden reversal: peripeteia. He saw it as essential to the success of any narrative. Peripeteia literally means a “turning around.” Anagnorisis—or “recognition”—is a moment when a character discovers for himself his own wrongness. This, says Aristotle, characterizes the highest, most affecting kind of drama. The insight here is less concerned with external matters as with internal problems. The character undergoes a reversal in her construal of reality. These archetypical plot structures make even contemporary novels, movies or drama gripping and moving. Besides concepts like peripeteia, or anagnorisis, hubris or pride, metanoia, change of mind, and even katharsis are important to give our stories meaning. In this class we will discuss several Greek myths and identify these pivotal events. Participants will then create an outline of their own stories containing at least one of these concepts. You will be emailed the Zoom link 24 hours before the start of class. If you sign up less than 24 hours before the start of the class, please email Kristen at programs@sandiegowriters.org for your link.

The return of the Women's World Cup could mean more iconic shots of shirtless celebrations revealing sports bras. The garment has come a long way from its humble beginnings.

Sponsored by UC San Diego's Department of Visual Arts and Film Studies Program. "The specific work in question is Wharton’s novel 'The Age of Innocence' (published 1920, set in the 1870s). But Steve Fagin does not set out to adapt this novel in any way, shape or form. To address it, yes. To circle it. Surround it. Question it. Stalk it, even. To treat it as a cultural site (across, literally, its many editions) and also, in a virtual-cubistic sense, an imaginary space that one can inhabit and poke around in. To unsettle its foundations, its comfortable drift into history, including media history."
– Adrian Martin Steve Fagin is an American artist and former professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. He has produced a series of feature length videos, including "The Amazing Voyage of Gustave Flaubert and Raymond Roussel," "The Machine That Killed Bad People" and "TropiCola" (the latter produced in collaboration with some of the most important theatre actors and producers in Havana). RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/515273576137

Cells of white males have formed in at least 30 states, united around racism and an interest in mixed martial arts.

Rady Children's Hospital hosts a Comic-Con panel on how its doctors and engineers use 3D printing and virtual reality in complex surgeries.

A 125-million-year-old fossil from the early Cretaceous shows the skeletons of a smaller mammal biting a larger horned dinosaur, suggesting a much more complex ancient food web.