New AI Tool Helps Researchers Fill In Missing Letters And Words In Ancient Roman...
Named Aeneas after the mythical Trojan hero, the program predicts where and when inscriptions were made and makes suggestions where words are missing. -...
Can Burning Man Survive Financial Hardship?
Despite its explosive popularity over the years, in 2024 Burning Man fell short of its fundraising goals and saw a reduction in ticket sales....
Maybe AI Slop Will Cure Us Of Our Internet Addiction?
Where going online once evoked a wide-eyed sense that the world was at our fingertips, now it requires wading into the slop like weary,...
In Putin’s Russia, Even Internet Searches Could Be Crimes
“Russian lawmakers on Tuesday approved a bill that punishes online searches for information that is deemed ‘extremist.’ … The official definition of extremist activity...
Nearly Half Of Freelance Workers In British Theatre Earn Less Than Living Wage
“The report shows 44% of freelancers earn less than the UK National Living Wage, up from 34% last year. ... The survey reveals high...
Joffrey Ballet Will Remain At Chicago’s Lyric Opera House For (At Least) Seven More...
“The Joffrey’s current lease was slated to end following the 2027 season, but this extension will keep the city’s top ballet company at the...
Is What Most Historians Have Believed About Sacagawea For A Century Actually Wrong?
Her tribe, birthplace, date of death — all those and much else from the journals and later testimony of Lewis and Clark had been...
Trump Administration Considers Removing Exhibits On Slavery From Independence Hall In Philadelphia
“The displays were flagged for review in accordance with a Trump administration order directing National Park Service staff to identify language and historical depictions that ‘inappropriately...
L.A. Times Owner To Keep Controlling Interest Even As He Puts Newspaper On Stockmarket
“Patrick Soon-Shiong will retain majority ownership of the Los Angeles Times in his planned public sale, which will be limited to $75 million after...
Boston’s GBH Lays Off Entire Production Staff Of PBS Series “American Experience”
Due to the Trump/Congress clawback of funding for public broadcasting, the 13 GBH employees who work on the history documentary series have lost their...
Protecting Istanbul’s Ancient Buildings From The Huge Earthquake That Will Definitely Come One Day
Geophysicists say Istanbul has a 40-60% chance of a major earthquake by 2055. … There are roughly 40,000 historical sites in Istanbul that need...
Understanding Popularity Through Taylor Swift’s Song Construction
Swift is increasingly taken seriously in the halls of academia. A number of universities offer courses dedicated to Swift, but typically not to her...
Why, After Years Of Progress, Have Women Playwrights Lost The Spotlight?
The low representational numbers for women are difficult to square. By various measures (including the numbers of women graduating from degree programs in the...
Perusing The 5,000-Odd Goodies In The Sondheim Archive At The Library Of Congress
“Among them are hundreds of music and lyric sketches of Sondheim’s well-known works as well as drafts of songs that were cut from shows...
In The Age Of Facial Recognition, What Does Privacy Even Mean?
No one knows exactly how the system obtains its matches. There is an entire field in AI known as “mechanistic interpretability” that is attempting...
American Library Association’s New Plan: Focus On Advocacy And Activism
The plan addresses national policy, library legislation, and local connections. “While libraries serve as a cornerstone of democracy the world over, we operate within...
Use of AI In Literary Translation Unsettles Publishing Industry
“As more companies explore AI literary translation, the rapid progression of the technology and what that could mean for the future has divided the...
The Enduring Allure Of Puzzles
The problem with a competitive approach to puzzles is that you take what is intended as a soothing and distracting pastime and quietly hitch...
The Prolific Writer Phenomenon
Prolific writers are simultaneously envied and dismissed, admired and snarked about. There is the sense that a writer can write too much, that whatever...
Idea: Replace NEA, NEH With A National $5 Campaign?
Through small contributions from Americans who care about their museums, arts organizations, and libraries, a national fund could be built that provides steady, apolitical...
No, Public Broadcasting In The U.S. Is Not Like Government-Run News Media In Dictatorships....
“In state-run media systems, a government agency hires editors, dictates coverage, and provides full funding from the treasury. Public officials determine — or make...
NPR Will Reduce Its Budget By $8 Million To Help At-Risk Local Stations
National Public Radio will cut its budget by about $8 million in order to provide that money to member stations most impacted by last...
Republicans Propose Renaming Kennedy Center’s Opera House After Melania Trump
The proposal was introduced by Republican members of the House Appropriations Committee as part of a spending bill for the Department of the Interior,...
Harvard Publisher Abruptly Cancels Journal Issue Devoted To Palestine
On 9 June, the Harvard Education Publishing Group, the journal’s publisher, abruptly canceled the release. In an email to the issue’s contributors, the publisher...
Can Trump Really Eliminate The National Endowment For The Arts? Here’s What Experts Say
Opinions differ over whether Trump or any president could make the NEA (or NEH) cease to exist without an act of Congress, but if...
