The Words We Make Up When We Can’t Remember The Right Ones
Apparently, the struggle to find the right word is real and has been for some time, because the Oxford English Dictionary has its own...
What Defines “Genius” Teams
First, each team member — no exceptions — brings an outstanding capability that complements the capabilities of other team members. Top percentile analytical capacity...
Major French Festival Puts Theatre Voices From Elsewhere On Stage
As the first week of the festival unfolded, the spotlight shone repeatedly on amateurs and artists from countries rarely represented on the biggest European...
Ira Glass On Radio, Podcasting, And Keeping “This American Life” Fresh
I think a lot of my aesthetics were shaped by the Broadway shows that my mom took us to in Baltimore. Those old-school shows...
After A Long Career In Academia, I Leave Discouraged
I leave elite academe with doubts and foreboding that I would not have anticipated when I completed my formal education in 1982. Watching the travails of...
How To Tell If AI Wrote Something? It Uses Certain Words, Expressions
By taking a similar look at "excess word usage" after LLM writing tools became widely available in late 2022, the researchers found that "the appearance...
How Your Brain Decides What To Remember
The brain tags experiences worth remembering by repeatedly sending out sudden and powerful high-frequency brain waves. Known as “sharp wave ripples,” these waves, kicked...
If Scientific Writing Includes The Word Delve, It’s Probably Generated By AI
Then there’s “showcasing.” And many, many more: “A number of words that were extremely uncommon in these scientific abstracts before 2023 ... suddenly surged...
In Liverpool, The Walker Art Gallery Has Decided To Confront Its Colonial Past
“For decades, the sculpture gallery has had mostly blindingly white marble works, which were exclusively of white people. Now it does not. The intervention...
Vandals In Austrian Cathedral Behead Sculpture Of Virgin Mary Giving Birth
"Created by Austrian artist Esther Strauß, Crowning drew intense ire from some conservative Christians who viewed the work as ‘blasphemous’ and ‘scandalous’ before an unknown party...
A Federal Appeals Court Is Looking At Its Own Ruling That Sent Banned Books...
“While the library patrons say removing the books constitutes an illegal government squelching of viewpoints, county officials have argued that they have broad authority...
The Artist Who Won The Turner Prize Might Not Want To Be An Artist...
“‘The problem is not the art, it is the condition of capitalism and the market, and the way that this whole gig operates,’ ...
What To Do With A ‘Stately Home’ In Britain?
Invite in some street artists, and let them do what they want - with the grounds, anyway. - BBC
After What Feels Like Years Of Negotiations, Paramount And Skydance Are Inking Their Merger...
David Ellison of Skydance finally persuaded Shari Redstone “to let go of the entertainment company her family has controlled for nearly four decades. The sweetened deal...
When Small Bohemian Towns Stop Investing In Artists, Everyone Loses
For instance: “With the near-total lack of availability of affordable year-round housing and workspace options and soaring short-term rental costs during peak seasons, many creatives have...
Give Kathryn Bigelow Her Flowers
Sure, she won an Oscar for The Hurt Locker, but don’t forget Point Break: "Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze are perfectly cast as the...
Where Are TV’s LGBTQIA Characters Going?
Away - and maybe because of pressure from hate groups. - CBC
An Insider’s Look At Dineh Weaving Traditions
The Dineh (Navajo) tradition of weaving is about more than the art - it’s about food, culture, and Churro sheep. - NPR
Field And Stream’s New Country Music Star Owners Have Frankly Alarming Plans For The...
That is, they have plans for Field & Stream, the “lifestyle brand.” - Fast Company
Can Autumn’s Movie Slot Replicate Barbenheimer, But With Wickiator?
Marketers are leaning in. Wicked and Gladiator II, both releasing November 22, don’t seem to have the same built-in opposition, but they do have...
James Corden’s Play Was Supposed To Start, But At The Men’s Euros, England’s Game...
Thus, the audience at the Old Vic got to watch - or hear - the penalty shootout (and its good result for England’s men’s...
Alice Munro’s Daughter Tells Of Abuse At Hands Of Stepfather That Her Mother Learned...
Andrea Munro yesterday wrote an essay for the Toronto Star detailing the abuse, her mother’s response, the ways her father (owner of Munro’s Books...
The US Experiences A Spicy Heat Wave As Romance Bookstores Boom
“Once a niche that independent booksellers largely ignored, romance is now the hottest thing in the book world. It is, by far, the top-selling...
Is Temu Ripping Off An Indigenous Beaded Earring Artist?
Uh ... is the Pope Catholic? “It's an unfortunately common experience for Indigenous artists, according to Meika Ellis, a lawyer specializing in intellectual property...
How A Drunk Mary Todd Lincoln Made It To Broadway
Cole Escola, Oh, Mary!’s creator and star, “has been a revered cult figure in the comedy and New York cabaret scenes for more than...
