Yearly Archives: 2023
Tales From The Road: The Book-signings/readings No One Comes To
In-person author appearances are back in local bookstores, after a long pandemic absence. And for every standing-room-only reading featuring a massively well-known name, there...
No, We Don’t Have Different Learning Styles
Despite its appeal, there is simply no credible evidence to support the idea that attending to learning styles actually supports learning, regardless of how...
It Isn’t Just Humanities: Science Education Is Seriously Broken
Leaders see science as essential to national prosperity, well-being and, of course, competitiveness. So, is research fit for the challenge of advancing, refining or...
Popular Music Has Become An Asset Class
Justin Bieber selling his catalogue for $200 million is just the latest example. Investment funds have been paying big money for rights to pop...
The Dancers Who Escaped Russia
If the war has made refugees out of some Ukrainian dancers, it's made soldiers out of others. - 60 Minutes
“Opera Can Be Hip-Hop, and Hip-Hop Can Be Opera”: Figaro In A South Side...
Baritone Will Livermore and DJ King Rico have adapted Rossini's Barber of Seville into a work called The Factotum, "blending operatic writing with a...
Intriguing Questions About How AI Trains On Large Language Models
Do they merely memorize training data and reread it out loud, or are they picking up the rules of English grammar and the syntax...
Teachers In A Florida County Cover All Books In Their Classrooms, Fearful Of Felony...
"The Manatee County School District directed teachers to remove all books that had not yet been approved by a specialist from their classroom libraries....
As Deepfakes Proliferate, Countries Struggle With What’s Real
The worst abusers of the technology tend to be the hardest to catch, operating anonymously, adapting quickly and sharing their synthetic creations through borderless...
Archaeologists Find 9000-Year-Old Stonehenge-Like Structure On The Bottom Of Lake Michigan
They uncovered a rock with a prehistoric carving of a mastodon, as well as a collection of stones arranged in a Stonehenge-like manner. -...
American Artists Are Worried About AI And Copyright. American Policymakers, Not So Much.
"While the UK and the European Union have released more specific guidelines around AI development, such as the Digital Single Market Directive and the...
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Appoints Choreographer Aszure Barton Artist-In-Residence
"The appointment follows a long vacancy after resident choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo's departure in 2018. ... (While) Cerrudo lived in Chicago full-time and, until 2015,...
US Museums And Universities Have Thousands Of Indigenous People’s Remains, Three Decades After A...
"Our reporting, in partnership with NBC News, has found that a small group of institutions and government bodies has played an outsized role in...
Do Not Send That Disputed Van Gogh Back, Federal Court Orders Detroit Institute Of...
"Federal appeals court judges Wednesday ordered (museum) officials to hold onto a long-missing multimillion-dollar painting by Vincent van Gogh" — The Novel Reader —...
Facial Recognition Software Helps Identify A Raphael
"Researchers from the (UK) used facial recognition technology to identify the author of a painting known as the de Brécy Tondo. ... The researchers...
Artistic Director Of London’s Donmar Warehouse Announces His Planned Departure
Michael Longhurst, who took the top job at the small and extremely successful theatre in 2019, will depart when his five-year contract ends in...
Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director of New York’s Primary Stages, Is Dead At 53
For 21 years he led Primary Stages, one of New York's most prominent Off-Broadway companies, producing works by such playwrights as Theresa Rebeck, Terrence...
On Not Reading
It's not the flex some celebrities seem to think it is. - The Atlantic
Amsterdam Museum Finds Out Presenting ‘Nuance’ About WWII Isn’t Such A Great Plan
The effort to provide profiles of everyone from Resistance heroes to those wowed by Nazi propaganda "has touched a sensitive nerve among many Dutch...
Texas Library Board Chair Says She Was Removed Because Of Anti-LGBTQIA Bullies
"Cat Serna-Horn says council members offered her 'political favors' to quietly resign from the board ... was told the board's compromise to keep LGBTQ...
Take A Look At Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unbuilt Mile-High Chicago Skyscraper
"The new renderings include the Gordon Strong Automobile Objective, a planetarium proposed in 1925, as well as the National Life Insurance building, the...
Florida Governor’s Desire To Whitewash History Is Sparking Pushback
"The latest controversy in Florida education policies began this month, when the DeSantis administration said a pilot Advanced Placement course on Black history would...
Broadway Is Really Into Drag, But Why?
A new Some Like It Hot musical tries to balance painful depictions "and the rich reality of drag as art, self-expression, and everything in between....
On That Viral Video Brawl Starring The Michelle Yeoh Of Waffle House
"It's a miracle how she dispenses with the chair. 'Dispenses' isn't even the right word: She repels it. She parries it like an anime...
A Chinese Musician Is Working To Revive The Gehu
The gehu, an instrument which was introduced into Chinese orchestras in the 20th century and then replaced by the cello, "has four strings, a...
