When We Measure Everything Our Perceptions And Ability To Process The World Change
The machinery of ordinalisation attends carefully to individuals rather than coarse classes or groups. By doing so, it appears to liberate people from the...
Study: AI Might Create New Forms Of Music
Notably, the researchers found that the ongoing debate about copyright in AI-generated music is one of the major reasons why some artists are creating...
Any Surprise? Top Talent Exiting American Universities
An exodus appears to be under way of Ph.D.s and faculty generally, who are leaving academia in the face of political, financial and enrollment...
How One Classical Critic Made Peace With The Cell Phones, Candy Wrappers, Coughs, Talkers,...
Michael Andor Brodeur: “Self-reflection on the matter leads me to believe that my allergy to concert-hall disruption is a direct product of my own...
Will At The Center Of A Shakespeare Controversy Has Been Located After 150 Years
A will that has been lost for more than 150 years and was at the centre of a bitter legal battle by William Shakespeare’s...
Attack On The Smithsonian Is A Threat To Our History
This is not simply a disagreement over museum curation; it’s a dangerous and calculated attempt to whitewash our history, silence uncomfortable truths, and undermine...
How Wired Magazine Got Scammed By AI
You couldn’t make a better WIRED pitch if you built it in a lab. Or in this case, with the help of a large...
Opera Australia’s Next Music Director: Andrea Battistoni
The 38-year-old native of Verona is currently chief conductor of the Tokyo Philharmonic and, as of the start of 2025, music director of Turin’s...
Why We Turned The Williamstown Theater Festival Upside-Down
Managing director Raphael Picciarelli: “We weren’t chasing hype for its own sake. We were trying to spark the feeling that draws people to Burning...
Ghana’s Government Is Cancelling Construction Of David Adjaye-Designed National Cathedral
“The president's office announced that it has begun the process of ending the current contracts connected to the cathedral and will launch a further...
Trump White House Releases List Of Smithsonian Exhibits It Finds Objectionable
“An angry article on the White House website, headlined 'President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian,’ lists a series of perceived offenses from museums in the...
Longtime Conservative Critic Of US Universities Is Now Defending Them
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), whose stated mission is the defense of free speech rights, made its bones as a leading...
Kennedy Center Bosses Fire Entire Dance Programming Staff
“The layoffs leave unclear the future of the performance genre, which is a subscription driver for the arts venue. … Notably, the dance package no longer...
“All Things Considered” Host Ari Shapiro To Leave NPR
Shapiro has spent 25 years at the network, the last ten of them as a host of the flagship afternoon/evening newscast. In his announcement,...
Studying Philosophy Really Does Make You A Better Thinker: Study
“Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal and logical reasoning, according to our new study published in the Journal of the American Philosophical...
37 Rules For Navigating A Successful Theatre Experience
Here is your cheat sheet for making the most of your time at the theater while not accidentally becoming the drama. - Washington Post...
Can You Really Deprogram Your MAGA Parents With A Book Club?
"I'm begging you to just try and learn something that isn't from Facebook, Fox, or Newsmax," Valeen, a 38-year-old registered Democrat who works as...
N.C. Wyeth’s Largest Mural Has Come Out Of Storage After 17 Years
For 75 years, Wyeth’s five-panel, 60’x19’ Apotheosis of the Family hung at the Wilmington Savings Fund Society in Delaware — and was pried down...
Musical Theatre Through The Eyes Of The Orchestra
Even for a theatre critic, the orchestra is easy to overlook. It wasn’t until I sat in behind the scenes, with a copy of...
Is Trump Trying To Sanitize History Of Slavery?
“The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden...
How Ambiguity Chews The Center Out Of Public Discourse
Democracies thrive on open debate, but when the threat is not strong enough to unite and not weak enough to ignore, debate can spiral...
This Man Has Built A Career Out Of Talking To Leprechauns
“Now a hale 81, Kevin Woods calls himself Ireland’s last leprechaun whisperer, a title that reflects the weekly conversations he says he still carries...
The Legal Strategy Threatening Your Right To Read
In 2023, our book was one of thousands pulled from library shelves around the country, and as we write, an evolving legal strategy being...
Data: Are Art Historians Now More Employable Than Computer Scientists?
According to data released this year by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, recent art history graduates nationwide were more employed than computer science...
There’s A Whole New Set Of Origami Patterns, And They Could Be Very Useful...
“Resembling idealized flowers, many (of what are called) bloom patterns are rotationally symmetric around the center. The bloom patterns, with their set of attractive...
