Editor Pick: Culture and Society

For those of us relatively new to the concept, “vaping” is when someone uses a device, like an e-cigarette, that heats up liquid which turns into water vapor that is then inhaled just as you would with a cigarette.

We can see Columbus as either a daring explorer who set out like a 15th century Captain Kirk to go “where no man had gone before,” or we can see him as an inept navigator who grossly underestimated the size of the earth and the distance across the ocean.

Daily gratitude is a very healthy exercise that produces joy and happiness.

How often do we need to see NFL players getting carried off the field on stretchers to know that this is not the best game for men to play let alone children?

Linda Kurtz of the Campus Kitchens Project talks about getting involved in the fight against hunger in America.

With Flexible Instruction Days if bad weather closes a school, kids won’t be lounging around the house all day watching TV or listening to their iPods, and schools will not be losing instructional days that disrupt school calendars and everyone’s personal lives.

Our appreciation of athletes isn't proportional to other areas of achievement, which leads athletes to have a sense of entitlement off the field.

'Embers' succeeds a good deal more dramatically than one might have expected from a radio play transferred to the stage.

So while the U.K. remains intact, the folks at Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews will never be the same. Cheers to the people of Scotland and the members of R&A for making the right call on both counts.

Rudolph Bauer's work was not shown for many years where it should have been shown, in the Guggenheim Museum. How was this modernist painter and influential Abstract Expressionist overlooked and silenced? The mystery is revealed in Lauren Gunderson's fine play in which she re-imagines Hilla von Rebay visiting with her lover Bauer long after his marriage to his maid Louise and von Rebay's release from the Guggenheim Museum project.