Ata Aidoo, "as well as being a writer and university professor, also served as Ghana’s education minister in the early 1980s; she resigned when she could not make education free." - The Guardian (UK)
A Romanian-born owner of a London design store says "the décor industry is fond of artisanal work right now, adding that if it’s 'obscure' — she used air quotes — that was even better." So that's great for Horezu. - The New York Times
There was a K-Pop themed strike day, and the writers have also held "singles events, Greta Gerwig appreciation day, Pride and drag queen day, and reunions for writers of shows such as E.R. and the various Star Trek series." That all keeps morale up. - NPR
"Computers that we can all 'program,' computers that don’t require specialized training to adjust and improve their functionality and that don’t speak in code: That future is rapidly becoming the present." - The New York Times
But the artist invited the entire seaside community of Bexhill to help fix the damage and restore the statue. "More than 300 volunteers ... queued along the promenade to help restore the bronze sculpture." - The Observer (UK)
"If the life wisdom espoused by self-improvement columns and my grizzled colleagues was 'Do the hardest thing first,' I was taking the opposite approach. I was beginning my day doing the most pleasurable thing. It was, quite literally, an eye-opener." - The Atlantic
“We did this workshop,” Foley told me. “And he came to see it, and . . . he did not like it. It was a really awful experience, because everybody was, like, What did Sondheim think? What did Sondheim think? And . . . I had to lie. - The New Yorker
She first came to notice in contemporary classical circles in the 1980s with atmospheric modernist music which frequently incorporated electronics; she achieved stardom with the 2000 opera L'Amour de loin, once called "the first great opera of the 21st century." She had kept secret a 2021 diagnosis of brain cancer. - BBC
Most of us want to live as long as possible but would like to avoid the deterioration of aging. So it’s only natural that antiaging remedies abound. Sadly, most of them are just false hope, hype, and snake oil. - Skeptical Inquirer
At least five GitaGPTs have sprung up between January and March this year, with more on the way. Experts have warned that chatbots being allowed to play god might have unintended, and dangerous, consequences. - Rest of World
The short story has, from the beginning, been a thoroughly modern form: Originally published in newspapers and magazines and consumed on railroads and omnibuses, short stories have been ideal material for people who do not have the time or patience for a novel. - Hedgehog Review
"The artisan Nakamura Mitsue employs her four decades of experience as she cuts, carves and paints, gradually forging an eerily lifelike human face from a single block of wood." (video) - Aeon
Succession comes by its theater DNA honestly. A number of its writers are working playwrights, with impressive produced work under their belts, and executive producer Frank Rich was the New York Times’s chief theater critic from 1980 to 1993. - Vox
Rafael Viñoly was at a dinner party with Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim, who complained about the challenges of a standard keyboard for someone with a small reach. Viñoly asked if a curved keyboard would be better; they said, "sure, try it" — so he designed one. - MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
It’s ridiculous that we’ve built a system that overvalues the sort of technocratic skills these universities cultivate and undervalues the social and moral skills that any healthy society should value more. - The New York Times
