Journals are awash in a rising tide of scientific manuscripts from paper mills—secretive businesses that allow researchers to pad their publication records by paying for fake papers or undeserved authorship. “Paper mills have made a fortune by basically attacking a system that has had no idea how to cope with this stuff." - Science
Users can press the Shazam button to identify a classical music song or search for music. Then, tapping the menu icon on the track page and selecting "Open in Classical" will send the piece to Apple Music Classical. - Apple Insider
"To Frédéric Jousset, our most irrational ideas can sometimes be our finest. That thinking has led the 52-year-old thrill-seeker ... to build a giant museum-boat, deploy a fleet of buses to bring 100,000 kids to the British Museum, and tour museum masterpieces around the country in a truck." - Artnet
Anne Midgette, the former longtime classical music critic at the Washington Post, declined an honorary doctorate from the higher education institution and withdrew as keynote speaker at the commencement ceremony on May 20. - The Plain Dealer
"The strands of medicine, consciousness expansion, intoxication, addiction, and crime were tightly entangled in fin-de-siècle Paris, where ether and chloroform circulated among bohemian demi-mondaines" such as Guy de Maupassant and Jean Lorrain, in whose works and lives the effects of the fumes were quite evident. - The Public Domain Review
The flagship Disney+ service also lost 4 million paid subscribers during the quarter—its biggest drop ever and a shock to analysts who expected the service to add 1.7 million subscribers. Disney’s shares fell more than 4% following the report. - The Wall Street Journal
The Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA), in the city's wealthy and artsy Palermo neighborhood, opened during Argentina's 2001 currency crisis but has survived and thrived — and is now expanding into a second site, due to open next year in the city's northern exurbs. - The Art Newspaper
"Cinderella" was greeted on Broadway by hostile reviews, garnered zero Tony nominations and struggled at the box office. Last week it played to houses that were only 54 percent full and grossed just $326,303, which made it the lowest-grossing musical on Broadway. - The New York Times
The Kerala Story, set in the southwestern state but produced by Mumbai's Hindi-language industry, purports to tell the story of three out of an alleged 32,000 women lured into marriage by Muslim men ("love jihad," a decades-old conspiracy theory) and taken to join ISIS in Afghanistan. - BBC
Spotify, the largest audio streaming business, recently took down about 7 percent of the tracks that had been uploaded by Boomy, the equivalent of “tens of thousands” of songs, according to a person familiar with the matter. - Ars Technica
They're a big business, attracting Barcelonans and tourists alike, but, thanks to rising sea levels and heavier storms, the city's beaches are eroding fast. In recent years they've been replenished with dredged sand, but Catalonia's government (to city officials' dismay) says that effort is futile and should end. - The Guardian
"The show is dragging an ancient queen into Western debates in which she has no place, they argue, … and they would like Afrocentrists to back off. … '“How can someone who's not even from my country claim my heritage just because of their skin color?' said (one) Egyptologist." - The New York Times
"Investigators opened a case this week against Yevgenia (Zhenya) Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk, alleging that Petriychuk's Finist, the Brave Falcon, which premiered in 2020 under Berkovich's direction, had broken the law. … (The play) won two Golden Mask national theatre awards last year." - Reuters
"Based on Gogol's short story 'The Terrible Revenge,' the opera (by composer Yevhen Stankovych) was directed by Andreas Weirich. ... 'We did some of the rehearsals in the bomb shelter,' he said. 'At times there were four air raid sirens a day – it became a new normal.'" - The Guardian
"The original Barnes Foundation building in Lower Merion, which the foundation left in 2012 to move to the (Benjamin Franklin) Parkway in Philadelphia, is now exhibiting art again. St. Joseph's University has completed extensive renovations to the building which (has opened) as the Frances M. Maguire Art Museum." - WHYY (Philadelphia)
