Roger Ebert Home

Features

Features

The python's dinner

The image below is horrifying and rather beautiful. Danish scientists were able to combine CT and MRI scanning techniques to observe a python in the process of eating a rat. The image below shows the python about midway through dinner.…

Features

Evening Prayer

Song at SunsetWalt Whitman Splendor of ended day floating and filling me, Hour prophetic, hour resuming the past, Inflating my throat, you divine average, You earth and life till the last ray gleams I sing. Open mouth of my soul…

Features

Won't you ride in my little red wagon?

☑ Links to my Pages for Twitter are in the right margin. var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname = "Roger Ebert's Journal"; a2a_config.linkurl = "http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/"; a2a_config.num_services = 8;

Features

Who cut the cheese?

var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname = "Roger Ebert's Journal"; a2a_config.linkurl = "http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/"; a2a_config.num_services = 8;

Features

My talk at TED 2011

Rather than use the voice on my computer to speak for TED's entire allotment of 17 minutes, I asked my wife Chaz and two friends, educator John Hunter and Dr. Dean Ornish, to help read my remarks. var a2a_config =…

Features

The last days of Tiny Tim

I first saw Tiny Tim very early in his career, in Greenwich Village in the winter of 1962-63. There was a convention of college newspaper editors, and a few of us -- I remember Jeff Greenfield coming along -- went…