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“All Things Considered” Host Ari Shapiro To Leave NPR
Shapiro has spent 25 years at the network, the last ten of them as a host of the flagship afternoon/evening newscast. In his announcement,...
Studying Philosophy Really Does Make You A Better Thinker: Study
“Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal and logical reasoning, according to our new study published in the Journal of the American Philosophical...
N.C. Wyeth’s Largest Mural Has Come Out Of Storage After 17 Years
For 75 years, Wyeth’s five-panel, 60’x19’ Apotheosis of the Family hung at the Wilmington Savings Fund Society in Delaware — and was pried down...
This Man Has Built A Career Out Of Talking To Leprechauns
“Now a hale 81, Kevin Woods calls himself Ireland’s last leprechaun whisperer, a title that reflects the weekly conversations he says he still carries...
There’s A Whole New Set Of Origami Patterns, And They Could Be Very Useful...
“Resembling idealized flowers, many (of what are called) bloom patterns are rotationally symmetric around the center. The bloom patterns, with their set of attractive...
How The Choreographer Put Together That Marching Band Sequence in “Severance”
The first problem was that the producers didn’t realize they’d need a choreographer until after a band was assembled, rehearsed, and on set for...
The Play Where You Are The Actor And The Audience Is A Tree
“Conversing with a plant might sound silly, and Dan Daly acknowledged the piece” — Arborlogues: A Botanical Recital Performed for One Tree — “is...
Pernambuco Is The Best Wood For String Bows. What Will Happen If It Gets...
That’s a big worry for musicians as well as luthiers, and not just because the supply of wood could dry up. Touring musicians could...
As The Will-They-Or-Won’t-They-Ban-TikTok Question Drags On, US Creators And Users Are Just Tired
“While the back-and-forth on a TikTok ban remains a juicy topic (for the media), it's been a source of frustration and confusion for creators —...
Number Of Americans Who Read For Pleasure Has Fallen By 40%: Study
“Researchers at the University of Florida and University College London have found that between 2003 and 2023, daily reading for reasons other than work...
America’s Leading Medical Museum Changes The Way It Displays Human Remains
The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia has been mired in a two-year controversy over an “ethical review” by the now-former executive director which removed all...
Dallas Museum Of Art Appoints New Director: Brian Ferriso of Portland Art Museum
“Ferriso, 59, will succeed Agustín Arteaga, who stepped down in December after eight years at the helm. Ferriso’s first day will be Dec. 1. … He...
Keeping Traditional Somali Dance Alive In Minnesota
Mohamoud Osman Mohamed, director of the Somali Museum of Minnesota, and his father founded the Somali Museum Dance Troupe a decade ago. At first...
Quantum Physics In Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”
“Researchers say that its swirling sky is uncannily similar to some of the ‘exotic vortex patterns’ produced by a classic scientific phenomenon known as...
This Is Certainly Bucking The Trend: Queensland Increases Arts Funding
Arts Queensland, the government funding body for the northeastern Australian state, has announced recipients for the 2026-29 funding round, with the total amount of...
For These Stage Actors, Getting Older Is A Career Peak
“As a culture we tend to talk about ageing as a series of losses, a whittling-away of vigour and ability, but talking to actors...
What Hit American TV Series Look Like After Russian Censors Get Through With Them
“There is no intimacy between men, no talk of abortion, no logos of banned companies or jokes about Putin. By August, censors had cut...
Reading Tiny Buddhist Scrolls Without Damaging Them By Unrolling
The scrolls come from a small Mongolian shrine found by an expedition in 1927. Researchers are virtually unrolling and deciphering them using X-ray tomography,...
A Challenge: Getting Chinese-Language Literature In Front Of English-Speaking Readers
“(There’s) a new effort from Riverhead Books, led by editor Han Zhang, to publish more translated Chinese language literature. … The books that Zhang...
Repairs Underway At Building Which Caught Fire Just Months After Curtis Institute Bought It
It’s known as the Art Alliance building, it’s near Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square, Curtis bought it in January in the UArts liquidation sale, and fire...
Who Are The Generals In The Trump White House’s Culture War?
Since he returned to the White House, Trump has appointed himself chairman of the Kennedy Center, revived the Garden of Heroes statuary project, and...
Another Casualty Of Public Radio And TV Defunding: Upgraded Public Safety Warnings
FEMA had been using the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to evaluate proposals and award grants for the Next Generation Warning System Grant Program, which...
Audra McDonald Followed Home From Theater By Autograph-Seeker
She says that on Saturday, following her next-to-last performance in Gypsy on Broadway, an audience member “snuck around and found me the way I...
A24’s New Release Is Already The Fifth-Highest-Grossing Film Of All Time, And You’ve Probably...
“Ne Zha 2, an animated fantasy adventure movie written and directed by the Chinese filmmaker Jiaozi, broke multiple records after it premiered in China earlier...
They’re Moving An Entire 113-Year-Old Church Three Miles Across Town — In One Piece
The Kiruna Kyrka, weighing 672 tons and made mostly of red-stained timber, has been elevated onto rolling platforms and is lumbering its way across...
