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Native Hawaiians Are Traveling Europe, Retrieving Their Ancestors’ Bones From Museums

"Edward Halealoha Ayau … and representatives of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, a state agency for native Hawaiians, are receiving the artifacts in four German cities — Berlin, Bremen, Göttingen and Jena — and Vienna." -The New York Times

Disney+ Adds Huge Number Of Subscribers, Now Growing Faster Than Netflix

Disney added 11.8 million Disney+ subscribers globally in the fiscal first quarter, topping the average analyst estimate of around 7 million, according to StreetAccount. - CNBC

King Tut Was Not A Significant Pharaoh, Yet The Modern World Remains Fascinated By Him

"Tutankhamun represents an extremely narrow slice of Egyptian history; imagine if, in the year 4850, the world understood the United States largely through the Presidency of Millard Fillmore." - The New Yorker

Artificial Intelligence Is Being Misused… Now

While much of the current critique of AI is still framed by science fiction dystopias, the way it is being used now is increasingly dangerous. We now rely on machines to make decisions for us and thereby increasingly substitute data-driven calculations for human judgment. - MIT Sloan Review

The Index At The Back Of The Book Deserves More Respect

The story of the index "is, on one level, a history of information science, but it's also a history of reading and writing and everything those actions entail — communication, learning and imagination, as well as competition, anxiety and no small amount of mischief." - The New York Times

Italy Creates Underwater Sculpture Museum To Thwart Illegal Fishing

The marble sculptures create both a physical barrier for the trawlers’ nets and a unique underwater museum, open to anyone either through arranged scuba diving tours or their own dive. - National Geographic

Sting Sells His Back Catalogue For An Enormous Sum

The rocker has sold "Every Breath You Take", "Roxanne", and the rest of his songs to Universal Music for a price believed to be up to $300 million. - The Guardian

Polish Government’s Holocaust Revisionism Is Scaring Some Historians

"(There's) a growing number of historians who worry that Poland's ruling far-right government is trying to cover up the darker side of the country's past, including Polish complicity during the Holocaust, effectively silencing historians who veer from Poland's official narrative." - PRI's The World

2021 Wasn’t Supposed To Have Been The Year Of The Movie Musical, But …

By this point Dear Evan Hansen and In the Heights feel much farther away than West Side Story, Encanto, and Tick,Tick ... Boom!, but they all came out in 2021. And, writes Jackson McHenry, most of them came out better than had seemed the case a few months ago. - Vulture

Space Choreography: Redefining Movement For Extremely Low Gravity

Dancer and planetary science PhD student C. Adeene Denton: "Getting to set the first site-specific work on the International Space Station (was) a big pipe dream of mine … before I studied enough astronauts to realize that most of them beat me to it." - Dance Magazine

At 90, John Williams Says He Is Giving Up Composing Film Music

He has two more projects to finish for Steven Spielberg, and he says those will be his last movie scores. Not that he's retiring: he'll be doing more conducting in Europe and composing more concert works for the stars who love to perform them. - The New York Times

On His First Day On The Job, A Museum Guard Vandalized A Painting With A Ballpoint Pen

Anna Leporskaya's Three Figures (1932-34) was on loan from the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow to the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center in Ekaterinburg when a new guard decided that two of those three figures should have eyes. - The Guardian

Royal Shakespeare Co. To Use TikTok To Market Low-Price Tickets To Young People

The "TikTok tickets" scheme will offer £10 seats, along with subsidized travel to Stratford-upon-Avon, to people aged 14 to 25 for this summer's productions of Richard III and All's Well That Ends Well. - BBC

What This Year’s Oscar Best Picture Nominations Say About The Movie Audience

“Dune,” the sprawling first installment of Denis Villeneuve’s ambitious adaptation of the 1965 science fiction novel, was the only nominated film that could claim to be a classic box office success, having earned more than $100 million in bricks-and-mortar theaters. - Washington Post

SFMoMA Names A New Director

Christopher Bedford, director of the Baltimore Museum of Art since 2016, has been named the new director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. - San Francisco Chronicle

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