Author: Errica Jensen

When considering what’s going on at Cornell right now, one image stands out: a biology student sitting at a lab bench, sketching rather than pipetting or calculating. Holding a watercolor. A specimen of a bird before them. The objective is to compel the eye to slow down and truly see, not to create art for a gallery wall. In a way, this is the main justification for Cornell’s increasing efforts to incorporate fine arts methods into science courses. Additionally, the argument is more serious than it first seems.The second part of Cornell’s Center for Teaching Innovation’s larger “Art of Teaching”…

Something feels instantly different when you walk into a classroom using the Center for Creative Education’s arts integration framework. Information is not being delivered by the teacher at the front. Students are moving, conversing, formulating arguments, and occasionally engaging in conflict—not over whether they are correct, but rather over the reasons behind their opinions. There’s a certain energy in the room. Not exactly chaos. more akin to controlled friction. The kind that occurs when people actively participate in something rather than just waiting for it to finish. The CCE’s approach, which combines arts integration with a methodology known as “Dialogue…

When a cherished location does something subtly unsettling, there’s a certain kind of friction. Disneyland has always been adept at creating the appearance of seamless operations, with lines disguised as experiences, crowds moving smoothly, and an overall nostalgic atmosphere that discourages people from asking too many questions. Therefore, it’s important to pay attention when someone does inquire and when that inquiry turns into a federal class-action lawsuit that seeks damages of at least $5 million. Lead plaintiff Summer Christine Duffield, a California parent who traveled to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure with her kids, filed the lawsuit in May 2026…

Kyle Busch did something that most professional athletes never do in the fall of 2025. He made his financial grievance public. It was a comprehensive lawsuit against Pacific Life Insurance, a large insurance company, claiming that he and his wife Samantha had been sold something that appeared to be financial security but turned out to be much messier. It wasn’t a contract dispute or sponsor fallout. As is typically the case, the Kyle Busch Pacific Life settlement that was reached in February 2026 was private. However, the backstory was anything but quiet. According to the lawsuit, which was filed in…

More than five years have passed since a Sikorsky S-76B helicopter took off on a foggy January morning from Santa Ana, California’s John Wayne Airport and failed to make a safe landing. There was an almost tangible silence over Los Angeles following the January 26, 2020 crash that claimed the lives of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and seven other people. However, in the years since, the legal fallout from that catastrophe has been severely warped; social media has turned it into something unrecognizable, and a recent conspiracy theory that has gone viral has brought it back into the spotlight…

Finding out that your phone was using your own cellular data to send information back to Google without your consent, without warning, and apparently even when the screen was dark and all apps were closed, is a subtle form of betrayal. With a $135 million settlement on the table and a deadline of June 23, 2026, about 100 million Android users in the US are sitting on a potential payout that the majority of them are unaware of. This is precisely what a federal class-action lawsuit has been arguing for years. According to the lawsuit Joseph Taylor v. Google, Google…

A doughnut company getting caught up in a data breach settlement is almost unbelievable. However, in 2026, Krispy Kreme, the company known for its warm-glazed rings and the small red neon sign that used to have significance in small-town America, is now paying former workers whose personal data was surreptitiously stolen in November 2024. The window to claim a portion of the $1,616,760 class action settlement reached by the company is closing more quickly than most eligible individuals likely realize.The hack itself wasn’t the kind of spectacular, Hollywood-style cyberattack that makes headlines for weeks. When Krispy Kreme revealed it in…

72,000 pamphlets were distributed to homes, community centers, and organizations throughout Bristol in July 2025. They were advertising the Adult Learning courses, which include painting, design, and creative workshops. These are the kinds of classes that encourage people to continue creating things with their hands. A figure with four fingers and seven toes was depicted on the front cover in a yellow color that someone on Reddit correctly likened to a frame from The Simpsons. The city that had spent decades developing one of the most unique creative cultures in Britain was not overly happy to learn that Bristol City…

The most fascinating discussions are rarely taking place in a classroom when you stroll through the Harvard Graduate School of Design on any given afternoon. They take place in the spacious hallway that runs alongside the Gund Hall trays, where students studying architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning end up at the same coffee station and start fighting over a topic that none of them were given to consider that day. John Andrews designed the structure, which was finished in 1972 and has been causing those collisions for more than 50 years. As it happens, that was never an accident.…

In June 2025, a researcher named Cydni Meredith Robertson stood in front of five tiny dresses made of silk, cotton, taffeta, organza, and silk velvet that Ruth E. Carter had created for the movie Selma to symbolize the four girls who perished in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church and the lone survivor. The dresses are ideal for Sundays. They are devastating. A young girl passed by, pointed, and remarked, “Ooh, pretty dresses.” Robertson almost started crying as she stood there taking in the significance of what she was observing. That moment, captured in her reflection for the…