Artful Stew

Stephen Colbert did a "Ask a Grown" segment for Rookie Magazine . In it, he gives advice on talking to your dad about sex, how to ...

This is super awesome news: G.W. University, American University, and GWU Hospital are teaming up to buy over half their power from three ne...

Shonda Rhimes gave a killer graduation speech at Dartmouth this year. Below is the video (the speech starts at 1:41:20 unless you just rando...

Stanford University has officially announced it will divest from its $18.7 billion endowment of coal companies, becoming the first major un...

Alyssa Rosenberg has a great write-up of what makes an excellent commencement speech, and she highlights this wonderful one from J.K. Rowlin...

Jennifer Lee, writer and director of the I think now fifth-highest-grossing-movie, Frozen , gave a commencement address to UNC a few weeks a...

Here's an awesome slam poem by Taylor Mali called "What Teachers Make" illustrated in comic form by Zen Pencils (you can see ...

Some confusing data out of Vanderbilt University suggests that women from elite ("snooty") universities work less than women from...

Awww, school. I do love learning, but I don't miss the hazing. Also, they could have totally picked a longer clip from V-Mars (and s...

Zen Pencils published a great condensed, comic version of Neil Gaiman's recent graduation speech, with the tagline "Make good art....

We all remember the middle and high school cafeteria and your table reflecting your popularity, social circle, etc. My high school wasn'...

I'm not sure why the arbitrary numbers (58 classics summed up in 33 words or less) but MTV's Clutch Blog list is pretty hilarious. ...

Stephen Colbert went to Northwestern (like my sister!), and for his 25th anniversary of his (almost) graduation, he gave this very inspiring...

I don't totally understand why Amy Poehler would speak at Harvard when she went to Boston College (Maybe she owed a Parks and Rec writer...

This blog post is a remix of a blog post I just read at Neatorama which posted this video: Everything is a Remix: Part Two: Movies. Everyth...

In another bit of nostalgia, here's a funny video from College Humor about forgotten video games from the 1980s. Much pixelated fun ens...

This is the easiest way of explaining why I haven't blogged in a while: The big blizzard of 0'10 shut down all the airports on the E...

For cool nerds everywhere.

Reading Ulysses was probably one of the smartest choices I ever made, if an incomprehensible one. Just like the book! I suggest that everyon...

While most of my "Class Notes: Alumni Updates!" email was filled with people I don't know doing cool things like working in Pa...