Monday, March 9, 2020
In the mid 1960s, researchers found that murmurating birds, particularly starlings, interact"not always, but often"with six or seven of their closest neighbors, who interact with six or seve…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]While learning an instrument is all of that and more for some people, music lessons can also be the locus of a very particular set of traumas, from the indignity of being forced to practise …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]Recent advances in computational methods and data science push us into rethinking science and engineering. Computers increasingly become principal actors in leveraging data to formulate ques…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]Widespread cinema closures across China, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan and South Korea have already done drastic damage to the global box office, with one consulting firm suggesting that the loss …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM[SHARE]A nest built on top of a painting is probably younger than the painting, but a nest covered over with pigment is probably older than the painting. At one site, ancient people had painted a f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM[SHARE]"The halls of academe are known to be hospitable to people with radical views on power relationships between capital and labor, but colleges themselves are often merciless actors in the labo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM[SHARE]After a huge project that involved picking over tens of thousands of example sentences, Oxford University Press (OUP) has been quietly replacing hundreds of those that "unnecessarily perpetu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM[SHARE]Friday, March 6, 2020
Even by physicists' standards, Dyson's thinking was strikingly unconstrained by the here and now. One moment, he was delving into the esoterica of quantum theory, and, the next, he was specu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03PM[SHARE]The Executive Assistant will play a vital support role for the Institute's senior staff who deliver training programs and consulting services for a portfolio of national and international …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03PM[SHARE]The cancellation " just seven days before the 2020 festival was scheduled to start next Friday " comes as SXSW organizers faced public pressure to scrap it, as well the prospect of a substan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03PM[SHARE]Hachette executives had discussed the matter with its employees and, "after listening, we came to the conclusion that moving forward with publication would not be feasible for HBG." " The Ne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03PM[SHARE]If the coronavirus continues to spread, analysts believe U.S. consumers will adopt behavior similar to that of Chinese consumers. China this year has seen a surge in people downloading apps …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03PM[SHARE]PRS, which collects and distributes royalties to songwriters, said 1,755 women signed up in 2019, versus 1,097 in 2018. Around 63% were under the age of 30. However, 5,580 men signed up in t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Camus's The Plague follows the inhabitants of Oran, an Algerian town that is sealed off by quarantine as it is ravaged by bubonic plague. Penguin is rushing through a reprint of its English …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]The pleasure of filling out an alignment chart is similar to that of playing a simple brainteaser, or completing an elementary-school worksheet: You're making judgment calls, sorting, puttin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Superman and his contemporaries launched a fascination with technological superism that continues today. Here were individuals whose bodies and their capacities were somehow warped through b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]This is the paradox of authenticity: In order to reap the many of the benefits of feeling authentic, you may have to betray your true nature. " Scientific American
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Mr. Tyner's manner was modest, but his sound was rich, percussive and serious, his lyrical improvisations centered by powerful left-hand chords marking the first beat of the bar and the tona…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Hollywood became synonymous with increased income and long absences from home. The manna from Faulkner's work on screenplays and the movie options on his novels was very welcome indeed, but …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]"Politics has always been present in French humour. But standup brought forward a whole population left out by the system " the poor, uneducated sons and daughters of immigrants." " The Guar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]Simon Godwin is on a quest for the sweet spot in American Shakespeare: to figure out what stimulates the American psyche and to reconcile traditionalists who want to see "doublets and hose" …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2020
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and Commissioner Joe Carollo told reporters for the Miami Herald that the risks were too great for the festival, which draws 165,000 fans from around the world ove…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PM[SHARE]"We didn't start with an end in mind and this meant we could use the collective creativity of the people we have worked with, whether local participants, artists or partner organisations. Th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PM[SHARE]Smiley, who was fired in 2017 amid sexual misconduct allegations, sued PBS contending he was dropped from the network as a result of racial bias and that he was wrongly terminated. Smiley wa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PM[SHARE]The dilemma these groups face is contractual, in two ways. First, there is the contract with the donor, which, if broken, may seem a betrayal to some, and a sign of institutional inconstancy…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PM[SHARE]Four internationally recognized artists " Jeppe Hein, Sabine Hornig, Laura Owens and Sarah Sze " have been commissioned by LaGuardia Gateway Partners, together with the New York-based nonpro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PM[SHARE]"Of course, I'm worried as a producer about tickets not being sold and people canceling their trips to New York City," the Broadway producer told The Daily Beast. "But my main concern is for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:01PM[SHARE]We shall be parents of the cyborgs and we are already in the process of giving birth. It is important we keep this in mind. Cyborgs are a product of the same evolutionary processes that crea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]It's surely axiomatic that the greater the prolificacy of the writer, the greater his or her capacity for self-plagiarism. This has to be one of the principal reasons why we admire such prod…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]Trade conflicts between the US and China, political unrest in Hong Kong and a protracted Brexit all contributed to a 5% dip in the global art market, which totalled $64.1 billion in 2019. " …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]The Heritage Foundation is still promoting its 1997 report authored by "distinguished fellow" Laurence Jarvik, titled "Ten Good Reasons to Eliminate Funding for the National Endowment for th…
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