Good Morning:
New York’s Little Island has cut its performance schedule in half (The New York Times), and Nicholas Hytner’s Bridge Theatre has been swallowed by a commercial chain (The Guardian).
More studies are showing that reading on paper yields measurably better comprehension than reading on screens (Time), and the playlist you put on to focus on your work mostly doesn’t work that way (The Conversation).
Aeon argues we can’t yet measure most of what AI actually costs or delivers — the impacts only surface years behind the technology. A charred Vesuvius scroll has been fully deciphered for the first time (Smithsonian).
And if you’re wondering why it’s Shrek 5 instead of Ratatouille at El Bulli, Vulture has theories.
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Doug
