What happened to Borat’s village?

Sacha Baron Cohen turned Glod into a punchline.

What a $181 Million Pollock Doesn’t Say

Plus, Brooklyn’s joyful and whimsical new subway mosaic.

Rethinking famous college admissions

Even if you’re not applying, this thought experiment gives a glimpse into how the world is about to be rewired. The top 10 most selective colleges in the US admit about 5% of those who apply. They’re not selling education as much as a label, a rare chance for someone to slot

Culture • 5h

The Largest Bookshelf Tour Ever Filmed: Inside a Classicist’s 20,000-Volume Library

If you grew up in the last few generations, chances are you didn’t get much of an education, if any, in Latin or ancient Greek. One long-made argument for phasing them out of curricula in English-speaking countries holds that room must be made for Spanish, Mandarin, and other

Culture • 5h

Hip 1960s Latin Teacher Translated Beatles Songs into Latin for His Students: Read Lyrics for “O Teneum Manum,” “Diei Duri Nox” & More

I’ve interacted with many entertaining language-learning resources in various classes—from miniseries in Spanish to comic books in French—all geared toward making the unfamiliar language relevant to daily life. Learning counterintuitive pronunciations, parsing a new system of

Culture • 6h

Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain

"Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love."

Culture • 13h