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After Months Of Turmoil At The Philadelphia Museum, The Director Steps Down
Timothy Rub now says he should have focused more, and much sooner (perhaps he means before the employees unionized), on gender and racial equity...
Writing About Autism And Sex
Author Helen Hoang took her own life experiences and folded them into her novel The Kiss Quotient. "I spent a lot of my life pretending...
Safely Playing Their Hearts Out At The Proms
How it's working onstage: "When the guy comes to the rehearsal room he sometimes has this suspicious look. Especially in the beginning, when people...
Getting Books Into The Hands Of Kids Who Need Them
With a young independent press, two women in Minneapolis want to take portrayals of Muslims in children's literature to a new place - a...
What About Autumn Reading, Hunh?
How "summer reading" (and beach reads) became a Thing. - The New York Times
The Author Who Became A Vaccinator
And her worries about how neither profession seems to be doing much good in this world. "Wash your hands for 20 seconds as often...
The Americans Who Transformed Ballet
Todd Bolender and Janet Reed "were expert ballet comedians, a rare talent, and intelligent, witty, well-read human beings" - and responsible for the establishment...
Targeted Ads Are Way Beyond Annoying
They create political division and can promote incredibly dangerous theories. But there are ways to resist. - FastCompany
George Rhoads, Artist Of Intricate Machines That Move Billiard Balls And More, 95
Rhoads studied painting, but his fame came from his audiokinetic sculptures, "which ranged from tabletop size to more than 40 feet high, resembled a...
China Finally Allows In A Foreign Film
And it's ... a British Christmas movie about a cat? - Variety
France’s Call My Agent Hit Cult Popularity In The US, But Its Star Didn’t...
Actor Camille Cottin, who spent a lot of time with her family during the pandemic, is bemused by her popularity. "Now you tell me...
South America’s Largest Film Collection Goes Up In Flames
On Thursday, flames engulfed Brazil's Cinemateca Brasileira, whose collection includes "more than a million archival documents and around 250,000 film reels," with the extent...
Older Kindles May Stop Connecting To The Internet
And yes, you can blame 5G for this issue. - BBC
Turner Prize Winner Says UK Cut School Arts Funding To Cut Out Criticism From...
Artist Helen Cammock: "They’re trying to eradicate the subjects that encourage people to think, and the parts of culture that really loudly challenge the...
Do Olympic-Level Achievements Make People Happy?
That depends on when you ask them. (And yes, that has a bearing on the lives of the rest of us as well.) -...
The Pleasure Of Falling Asleep With A Book
That is, with a book slipping out of your fingers, or falling on your face or stomach. - The New York Times
Jackie Mason, Who Kept The Borscht Belt Style Alive And Brought It To Broadway,...
Mason, "a former rabbi from a long line of rabbis, ... made comic capital as a Jew feeling his way — sometimes nervously, sometimes...
Mockingbirds Create Songs Pretty Much The Way Humans Do
Timbre morphing, pitch morphing, stretch morphing and squeeze morphing: "Mockingbirds compose their songs much like human composers do, drawing phrases from other birds' melodies...
Working At An Amazon Warehouse Is Dangerous, And Getting Injured There Is Worse
Getting injured can happen quickly in a bustling Amazon warehouse. Then there's trying to get the company to respond. - Boston Globe
Too Much Screen Time Can Literally Make Some People Sick
And when we say "literally," we mean it: "These symptoms fall into three categories: nausea, oculomotor issues, and general disorientation." - FastCompany
The Death-Positive Library
Truly, the UK has invented - and spread - a library movement for our times. - The Guardian (UK)
Why Eric Carle’s Whimsical Books Are So Important For Children – And Adults
Jonathan Kozol: "There’s nothing wrong with treating children or yourself to a bit of whimsy and wonderment and unimportant foolishness in a world that’s...
How The Mafia Destroyed Southern Italy And Sicily With Concrete
Palermo is ugly for a reason: "Vito Ciancimino, a mobster from the violent Corleonesi clan, ordered the demolition of splendid art nouveau mansions to make...
A Memoir Of What Hollywood Men Took And Took And Took From A Young...
Theoretically, things are different in a post-#MeToo Hollywood from when Mena Suvari was a young star. She thinks they should be, and adds, "If...
As The Movie ‘Spirited Away’ Turns Twenty, An Evaluation Of How It Changed Animation
The movie made animation a legitimate genre in Japan, and set up young girls as true heroines in their own lives. - Time Magazine
