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The Schomburg Center, At 100, Is Ready For Its Day In The Sun

“Artists, writers and community leaders have gone the center to be inspired, root their work in a deep understanding of the vastness of the African diaspora, and spread word of the global accomplishments of Black people” - Seattle Times (AP)

Thanks To Our Phones, We Deeply Lack Boredom

And for the sake of our brains, that’s a real problem. - The Guardian (UK)

How AI Is Remaking Google And The Internet

We've all noticed the changes in Google's approach to search, and most would agree that they have made finding reliable and accurate information harder. Regardless, Google's incredibly deep and broad index of the Internet is in demand. - Ars Technica

What Marshall McLuhan Teaches Us About Creative Inquiry

McLuhan foresaw that computing would enable new forms of pattern recognition, requiring fundamentally different ways of thinking — more integrative, relational and responsive — rather than simply accelerating old methods. - The Conversation

Your Brain’s Two Sides Hear Language Differently

Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels – linguistic, emotional and musical – and acts as a biological multicore processor. - The Conversation

How Much Energy Does Our Body Expend In Thinking?

New research builds on a growing understanding that the majority of the brain’s function goes to maintenance. While many neuroscientists have historically focused on active, outward cognition, such as attention, problem-solving, working memory and decision-making, it’s becoming clear that beneath the surface, our background processing is a hidden hive of activity. - Quanta

Good Taste Will Be Even More Important In The Age Of AI

Taste is a subtle sensibility, more often a secret weapon than a person’s defining characteristic. But we’re entering a time when its importance has never been greater, and that’s because of AI. - The Atlantic

What Monet Understood About Evoking A Place

This immersiveness does not come from an illusion of being in three dimensions – the opposite, in fact. Monet does a few subtle things that destabilise the elements of the perspective. - Psyche

The Truth About Finding Your Own Creativity

The myth of the genius is that these individuals woke up one morning and excelled. As a result, too many people are convinced that either you’re creative and you just happen to be able to find flow, or you’re not and you don’t. - Aeon

What Set Marc Maron’s Podcast Apart

Sure, now everyone (and their annoying friend) has a podcast, but not in 2009, when Maron got his start with WTF. "The podcast made me feel as if ... I could also come back from career humiliation in a way that could be creatively satisfying.” - The New York Times

So, Turns Out We Might Have Been Completely Wrong

Cool cool: A “new law of nature” upends everything we thought we knew about time, evolution, and (perhaps) life in the rest of the universe. - Wired

The Wild Chinese Sports Movie That Explains How US-Chinese Relations Have Changed

“What began as a story about transcending cultural boundaries through sports has turned into a symbol of just how little China and the U.S. understand each other—and how little interest they have in trying.” - The Atlantic

Need A Guide To Surviving Hard Times?

Try this 40-year-old kids’ movie. Beneath The Goonies’ "awkward stereotypes and slapstick humor from 1985 lies powerful messaging about what it means to belong, to resist, and to imagine abundance in the face of systemic scarcity.” - Salon

Just Whom Are We Calling A Genius?

You can tell what a culture values by who it labels a genius—and also what it is prepared to tolerate. The Renaissance had its great artists. The Romantics lionized androgynous, tubercular poets. Today we are in thrall to tech innovators and brilliant jerks in Silicon Valley. - The Atlantic

We’re About To Be Able To Translate Animal Languages. Then What?

The prospect of speaking dolphin or whale is irresistible. And it seems that they are just as enthusiastic. In November last year, scientists in Alaska recorded an acoustic “conversation” with a humpback whale called Twain, in which they exchanged a call-and-response form known as “whup/throp” with the animal over a 20-minute period. - The Guardian

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