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How A Taiwanese Singer Turned Her Indigenous Language Into A Musical Powerhouse

Pop singer Abao: "When people think of Indigenous music, they think of some elder pounding a drum. That's important too, but young Indigenous people...

Wrangling These Stories Free Of Copyright Took Far Too Long

Yes: "The dribbling of classic works into the public domain every year on Jan. 1 may be gratifying, but it also serves to underscore...

You Think QR Codes Made A Good Comeback?

Well, they did, thanks to the pandemic. But now it's time for a resurgence something even older: The personal blog. - The Verge

Librarians Know Where Their Younger Patrons Like To Live

And that means gearing some content toward TikTok. - The New York Times

Before You Pick Goals For 2023 Or Whatever, Read This Article

"Building a habit can take a lot of time and energy, so it’s important to make sure you pick behaviors you actually want to...

When A Portuguese Island Tried To Create A Village For Digital Nomads

A small coastal town "was selected as the location for an experiment that looked a little bit like tourism, a little bit like a...

Elon Musk’s Twitter Bans Links To Facebook, Mastodon, Instagram

This is fine: "The platform said the move would affect content from numerous social media websites, including Meta Platforms’ Facebook and Instagram, Mastodon, Truth...

Germany Has Recovered Some Of A Huge 2019 Heist From A Dresden Museum

"German authorities said Saturday that they have recovered a significant part of the 18th-century treasures stolen from Dresden’s Green Vault museum in aĀ spectacular break-inĀ more...

Beryl Grey, Legendary English Ballerina, 95

Grey did everything from dancing with the Bolshoi to directing the English National Ballet, and quite a bit in between. As a young dancer,...

The World Is Drowning In Old Books

"Books are precious to their owners. Their worth, emotional and monetary, is comparably less to anyone else." - Washington Post

Yellowstone Is A Mouthpiece For Big Meat

And it's an issue, no matter how much you like the show. "To state the obvious, most of the world’s cattle are elsewhere, and...

Can Anyone Ethically Encourage Graduate Studies In The Humanities?

"As bad as I thought the situation was, it’s worse—and it’s likely to worsen as high school students acquire more transferrable credits in early-college/dual-degree...

The Music, And The Trees, Of Norway

"Classical performance tradition is immediately undermined when the performer enters wearing a sleeveless pink top, red trousers, and a brown messenger bag ... and...

The UK’s Best Building Projects Of 2022

A dining hall? Yes, sure. A temporary pavilion? Indeed. The UK has range. - The Observer (UK)

How This Actress Quietly Became A Millennial Icon

Aubrey Plaza didn't anchor a blockbuster franchise like Jennifer Lawrence or Kristin Stewart, but she "has had a knack for choosing roles that seem...

Storytelling Changes, But Stories Remain

"Sometimes we can pretend we’re in a moment of stability, despite the ever-changing landscape around us; at other times, it’s all too apparent that...

The Classic Books This Reviewer Never Meant To Read

But then did, and now recommends to everyone. "Literature should not be something we approach out of a sense of duty. But many lengthy,...

What Will The Museum Associated With Eric Gill Do Now His Horrific Abuse Is...

"Ditchling Museum of Art and CraftĀ in East Sussex has been more closely associated with Gill than any other artist since it was founded in...

Read Like The Staff Of The Paris Review

Or, what books "temporarily ruined" their lives in 2022. - Paris Review

Ireland’s Cultural Representation In Europe Has Increased Rapidly Since Brexit

The Irish Embassy in Berlin had the idea for a dedicated cultural officer for Germany, and idea that "was so popular that similar roles...

Publishers Hope People Will Read The January 6 Report Cover To Cover

Or at least that they'll buy the proceedings - cleaned up from PDF form, with introductions by politicians or allies - as a book....

This Emily St John Mandel Interview Is A Testament To The Power Of The...

Truly, sort of. Since the author of Station Eleven said once in an interview that she was married, she couldn't convince Wikipedia she was...

Steven Spielberg Is Sorry That Jaws Has Led To So Many Shark Deaths

The director "has conceded that perhaps the Oscar-winning 1975 thriller was too effective at conjuring fear of the defamed creatures, admitting he is 'truly...

Pussy Riot Has Been Sounding The Alarm About Putin For More Than A Decade

The Russian art collective's members have been harassed, stalked, arrested, sentenced to hard labor, and now exiled - and not once did they stop...

The Vatican Will Return Its Parthenon Fragments To Greece

"The popeĀ called the returnĀ a 'donation' to the Greek Orthodox Christian archbishop His Beatitude Ieronymos II of Athens and a gesture of his intention to...
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