Rising Sea Levels Could Endanger Easter Island’s Ancient Statues: Study
“By the end of the century, rising sea levels could push powerful seasonal waves into Easter Island’s 15 iconic moai statues, according to a new...
Writers Pull Out Of Australian Festival, Charging That Speakers’ Code Is Censorship
“The actual wording of requires me to engage in complete self-censorship, so, such as a profound act of gaslighting." - The Guardian
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Company Rebrands
The company will develop brand and franchise strategies for titles including The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Evita, Sunset Boulevard and Starlight Express....
A Peek Inside A Pianist’s Brain As He’s Playing Bach
Nicolas Namoradze’s Neurorecital saw pieces from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier accompanied by images of the performer’s brain activity, allowing an unprecedented peek into the mind...
Why Are These People Claiming There’s A Man Trapped Inside Anish Kapoor’s Bean?
The accusation first surfaced on July 31, during the opening day of Lollapalooza: as a small group of protesters dressed in black gathered in...
Mindfulness Is Spreading In US Schools. Is It Helping?
Researchers estimate that over 1 million children in the U.S. have been exposed to mindfulness in their schools, mostly at the elementary level, often taught...
The AI Revolution In Education Is Just Getting Started
The AI takeover of the classroom is just getting started. Plenty of educators are using AI in their own job, even if they may...
How To Save Scientific Research: Throw Humanities Under The Bus?
We in the hard sciences do work that is largely apolitical, and we are more oriented toward much-needed objective evaluation of data and merit....
Amitav Ghosh’s Next Book To Be Kept Unpublished Until 2114
“The next manuscript by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh will not be read for 89 years, as he becomes the 12th author to contribute to...
Historians Raise Alarm About White House Review Of Smithsonian Histories
The White House’s announced review is a challenge to the Smithsonian, which has traditionally operated as an independent institution and regards itself as being...
Micro-Dramas Powered By AI: The Next Big Thing?
Television animation costs $15,000 to $60,000 per minute if done traditionally. Intelligent Animation, another start-up backed by Banyan Ventures, has developed an A.I.-assisted process...
Despite Gentrification And Declining Membership, Brooklyn’s Black Church Choirs Are Hanging On
“According to Pew Research Center data, between 2019 and 2023, Black Protestant monthly church attendance fell from 61% to 46% — the largest decline...
Why It’s The Hands That Make All The Difference In Dance
“Hands not only guide the eye but are the body’s finishing touch. ... They also offer a way into how to look at a...
A New Wave Of Old Performers At The Edinburgh Fringe
“This year offers a ‘brigade of old gits’, as the actor Andy Linden says, some of them veterans such as Miriam Margolyes, who first...
Native American Tribal Radio Stations Try To Figure Out A Future Without CPB Funding
“Now, after Congress took away $9.4 billion in previously allocated public media funding and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting subsequently announced it will shut down, the future of...
We’ve Made Luigi Mangione Into The Latest Great American Celebrity Outlaw
His astounding social media fame has inspired a musical, Saturday Night Live skits, stand-up routines, academic inquiries into the regulation of health care algorithms and the psychosocial...
Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment” To Undergo Restoration Early Next Year
The work on the monumental fresco behind the altar in the Sistine Chapel is intended to protect it from the effects of large-scale tourism....
NPR “Founding Mother” Susan Stamberg To Retire After 54 Years
“Stamberg, the first woman to anchor a national evening news program, hosted All Things Considered for 14 years before taking the helm of Weekend...
Development Director, Early Music America
EMA is looking for a Development Director to manage an annual fund campaign, major gifts program, foundation grants, and an emerging planned-giving program.
Chicago’s New Chamber Music Venue Is A Former 7-Eleven
At the CheckOut, Access Contemporary Music “aims to put on two or three chamber concerts a week, mostly self-produced. There are incipient plans for...
More And More Of Our Lives Are Being Controlled By Numbers
You might think of Google as a search company, but 80 percent of its quarter-trillion-dollar annual revenue comes from ads—both hosting them and placing...
Trump Announces This Year’s Kennedy Center Honorees, Says He Will Host Show
By making the announcement of honorees himself, Trump is taking on the role of producer/showman, elevating the attention to the show, which has aired...
The Top Online Video Creators Are Building Systems That Mimic, And May Eventually Rival,...
“They're building production studios that stand toe-to-toe with Hollywood facilities and spending lavishly on higher-quality programming. Some of these stars, from MrBeast to Michelle...
Time To Move On From Dr. Seuss?
Seuss dominates so much of our imaginations around childhood. It may take another generation or two to reset our perspective so that Seuss isn’t...
Trump Versus Higher Ed: Will Academia Survive The Intrusion?
Scholars who feared speech might make them vulnerable to deportation, the government advised, reflect grandiosity and paranoia. Professors are smart, but they do not...
