He was a guitarist’s guitarist who seemed to be the humble protagonist at the centre of a plethora of seminal moments in pop history. - The Conversation
"Across Europe and North America, museums are waking up to an ethical dilemma. The widespread historical use of pesticides means objects in their storage halls are not only toxic in terms of their problematic colonial heritage, but also in terms of them being contaminated with highly hazardous substances." - The Guardian
"I don't think you could have talked about the corrupting nature of power in as nuanced away as Todd Field has done as a filmmaker if there was a male at the centre of it because we (already) understand so absolutely what that looks like." - The Independent (UK)
"There are plenty of reasons for this, from the playlist culture spawned by streaming platforms … to the solace it provided during the pandemic. … But perhaps highest on the list is the global wave of Gen Z and young millennial classical artists." - BBC
"Now, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has announced a new project: restoring hundreds of never-before-heard sound recordings made by Bell and his fellow researchers between 1881 and 1892 at Volta Laboratory in Washington, D.C., and Bell’s property in Baddeck, Nova Scotia." - Smithsonian Magazine
Speaking on Spanish television — in shadow, voice electronically altered — a female singer alleged that, roughly two decades ago, Domingo on one occasion asked to put his hand in her rear pants pocket and on another forcibly kissed her just after lights went down and she couldn't see. - The Guardian
Public library branches in Boulder and Englewood, a Denver suburb, were closed to the public for several days after tests found methamphetamine on surfaces and in air vents in the restrooms, apparently due to patrons smoking crystal. - The New York Times
"In his role as payroll manager, (Michael) Maurello had access to make direct deposits. But between 2007 and 2020, he disguised payments to make it appear as though they were going to other employees, when they were actually going into his own account." - WTTW (Chicago)
The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity announced that Chris Lorway would be appointed to the role of President and CEO of Banff Centre. The post takes effect on April 10, 2023. - Ludwig Van
“In the immediate period after the war and throughout the 1950s there was one face that represented Italian beauty in the eyes of the world and it was that of Gina Lollobrigida,” wrote the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera in a tribute article. - Deadline
Using a technique called “stylometry”, it can be established that James Patterson probably wrote most of The President is Missing. Stylometry uses computers to statistically analyse the frequency of words in a text. It can be applied to a variety of research purposes, most notably, authorship attribution. - The Conversation
Escape behavior offers useful insight into the brain’s inner workings because it engages nervous system networks that originated in the early days of evolution. - Smithsonian
The shift to screen life has been decades in the making, and generations of tech-savvy artists have been charting those changes. - The Wall Street Journal
Mathematics belongs firmly within, not outside, the Modernist revolution in art and thought that reconfigured minds and lives. So why would any writer who cares about the origins of the ideas not wish to understand the intellectual core of arithmetic to the technological transformation of our world? - Prospect
