“Digital Twinning” Is Revolutionizing How We Solve Problems
The technology, which involves creating a digital clone of a real-world object or system, is revolutionising the fields of healthcare, manufacturing and logistics. It...
One Of History’s Greatest Opera Divas Was Also A Fine Composer
Pauline Viardot played duets with Chopin; thrilled Europe with her Rossini and Mozart; had George Sand as a friend and Turgenev as a lover....
For A Culture Of Innovation You Need Arts Spaces
My research findings demonstrate how honing imagination and wonder is essential to creating cultures dedicated to innovative and responsible corporate practices demanded by a...
At Home With The World’s Most Powerful Crossword Editor
"Will Shortz's stature in the crossword world is difficult to overstate. Observers, like the Kremlinologists of yore, speak of the 'Shortzian' and 'pre-Shortzian' eras."...
Brexit Has Made It A Nightmare For UK Bands To Tour Europe
“This is about whether one of the U.K.’s most successful industries, worth £111 billion a year, is allowed to prosper and contribute hugely to...
An Arts Center In Bethlehem, Right Next To The Israeli Security Wall
At an old stone mansion built in the 1880s by the town registrar, his descendants operate the Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir Center for Art...
Seriously? Producers Used AI To Fake Anthony Bourdain’s Voice on Documentary
The synthetic voice was created by feeding more than 10 hours of Mr Bourdain's voice into a machine-learning system. - BBC
Translating The Vocabulary Of The Online World From English
Speakers of other languages often have to use English for internet-specific terms; digital rights advocates find that there are no words in many other...
Facebook Wants To Pay Video-Makers. It Could Be A Tough Sell
Many creators — who make and profit off meme-y online content — have already flocked to rival platforms like YouTube and TikTok, which invested...
High-Tech Analysis Of *Exactly* How Museumgoers Look At Art
At a museum in Bologna, cameras and sensors of the ShareArt system record how many people view particular works, for how long, from how...
This Former Public Restroom Has Become An Arts Organization
The little building on Chicago's Logan Square was constructed in 1927 as a comfort station (as the euphemism of the time had it); for...
Yay! We Can Go To The Movies Again! But What Does That Even Mean...
As people start returning to cinemas rather than watching feature films at home as their only option, A.O. Scott considers whether the distinctions between...
Netflix Is Getting Into Video Games
"The idea is to offer video games on Netflix's streaming platform within the next year, according to a person familiar with the situation. The...
San Francisco Symphony CEO To Leave After Four Years
Mark C. Hanson gave no reason for his decision beyond a statement that "with the San Francisco Symphony now back up and performing …,...
Archaeologists Uncover Unknown 4,000-Year-Old City In Iraq
"The discovery was made in the area of Tell al-Duhaila, which is home to more than 1,200 archaeological sites, including the Great Ziggurat of...
Oleg Briansky, Who Founded One Of America’s Top Ballet Schools, Dead At 91
After an impressive but short dancing career (he never fully recovered from an early knee injury), he and his wife founded the Briansky Saratoga...
Turning Point: COVID Lockdown Has Freed Dance From Its Confines
We have embodied elements of resistance—resisting what a “dancer” looks like, what a dance “should” look like. And perhaps most importantly, we have resisted...
The Romance Of Going To Space Has Been Corrupted By Profit
The notion that private corporations ought to achieve something that states have been able to do since the 1960s—fly to space—is a peculiarly U.S....
There Is No Debate About Critical Race Theory – It’s One Side Arguing With...
The Republican operatives, who dismiss the expositions of critical race theorists and anti-racists in order to define critical race theory and anti-racism, and then...
Study: Culture Warriors On The Left Are Angrier Than Those on the Right
Those at the liberal end of the debate consistently have more negative views of conservatives than the other way round. - Prospect
Study: Gut Bacteria In Boys Linked To Heightened Brain Cognition
Boys at one year of age with a gut bacterial composition that was high in the bacteria Bacteroidetes were found to have more advanced...
Career Paths In Theatre Are Messed Up
"Am I, at age 35, five years into my job, just part of the next generation who will stay in their cool theater jobs...
Even As Restrictions Are Lifting, COVID Is Still Shutting Down West End Shows
Boris Johnson has insisted that capacity limits and other pandemic measures will end in England on July 19. Nevertheless, as the Delta variant of...
British MPs Propose Reform Of Music Streaming Revenue Sharing
In a report, they said royalties should be split 50/50, instead of the current rate, where artists receive about 16%. - BBC
How Pakistan Developed A Jazz Scene, Thanks To The U.S. State Department
During the Cold War, jazz was seen as a tool of cultural diplomacy, and the likes of Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, and Dizzy Gillespie...
