Yearly Archives: 2021
How Young People Are Demanding Change In Dance
I was really inspired by all the young people I saw demanding change, whether in how they were taught dance history, the shoes they...
How To Think About The “Big Data” Economy
Policy makers, economists, techies, lawyers, business leaders, and consumers should borrow an idea from cultural anthropology and consider the concept of “barter.” - Harvard...
Our Loftiest Ideas Are Rooted In Practical Needs
Unlike ideas of air, food and water that allow us to think about the everyday resources we need to survive, the venerable notions of...
Revolving Door? Toronto Symphony CEO To Step Down
Matthew Loden has reportedly decided to leave the role after accepting an offer to serve as Dean at the Shepherd School of Music at...
Is The Idea of “Toxic” Masculinity Counter-Productive?
"In today’s context, it is unclear why we are talking about boys and girls as though these are fixed identities to which masculinity and...
Is Disagreement A Social Media Design Problem?
Social media developers can take steps to foster constructive disagreements online through design. But our findings suggest that they also will need to consider...
‘He’s A Friend Of Dorothy’: A Brief History Of Yesteryear’s Favorite Gay Euphemism
For you young'uns, back before Stonewall, this was an expression gay men used to identify each other. (If a guy replied "Dorothy who?", one...
Why Is Amazon’s Science Fiction So Toxic?
Amazon has shat out science-fiction programming for years, and it ranges, on the smell-o-meter, from the merely obnoxious to the just plain noxious—a flatulence...
#IALivingWage: Hollywood’s Writers’ Assistants Fight For More Money And Less Misery
Despite the famously long hours and low pay, aspiring TV writers compete madly for these jobs, hoping to get a foot in the door...
Why Is Creativity Going Down?
Studies suggest that bored people score higher on creativity tests. As our distractions have multiplied, our minds have less opportunity to wander. Thus... -...
Netflix And (Ugh) ‘365 Days’ Have Made Poland Into A Hotbed Of Video Production
The industry that produced Andrzej Wajda and Agnieszka Holland never anticipated that a trashy softcore flick would become its most-watched product, the world's lockdown...
Creativity Scores Are Going Down
"A researcher at the University of William and Mary analyzed 300,000 Torrance Test scores since the '50s. She found that creativity scores began to...
At The Robot Version Of The Eurovision Song Contest
The A.I. Song Contest features three dozen or so teams that use artificial intelligence networks to create parts of, and sometimes all of, a...
Study: Why We See Faces In Inanimate Objects
Face pareidolia – seeing faces in random objects or patterns of light and shadow – is an everyday phenomenon. Once considered a symptom of...
How A Drama School Class Handled Graduating Right Into The Pandemic
The theater students of the UNC School of the Arts Class of 2020 hadn't expected to be starting their careers right at the moment...
Dancing To Heal From Turmoil And Tragedy
Ari Honarvar, who as a teen danced secretly to get herself through life in post-revolution Iran, writes about how she now leads communal dancing...
Rebel Filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. Dead At 85
He built a cult following in the 1960s underground with inventively odd satires, then hit the mainstream in 1969 with Putney Swope, in which...
Scientists Are Figuring Out The Chemical Baths Stradivari And Guarneri Gave Their Spruce Wood
Researchers using an array of high-tech methods have found traces of alum, potash, lime, borax, and plain old salt in the wooden fronts of...
Publishing Industry About To Get Slammed By Supply Chain Troubles
"Truck driver shortages, widespread port congestion, and skyrocketing container costs are among the biggest challenges facing the book industry supply chain for the rest...
Notre-Dame’s Neighbors Sue City Of Paris Over Lead Levels After Fire
"The plaintiffs" — local residents and a powerful labor union — "accuse the authorities of 'grave negligence', which they say exposed city dwellers, particularly...
Tokyo Olympics Will Be Held Under State Of Emergency
"The Japanese government formally declared a state of emergency in Tokyo on Thursday, due to rising numbers of COVID-19 infections. Restrictions will be in...
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How Do We Determine Good Taste?
The very notion of taste contains within itself two ideas in constant tension. - Claremont Review
Inside The Black Market For College Essays
"For every privileged kid too lazy to write an essay, there was a more complex story. To my surprise, of the hundreds of clients...
Dallas Theatre Promises To Diversify, Then Announces An All-White Cast
“An effort was made. Was it good enough? Was it the right effort? Was it an effort that was still within the blind spots...
