Why Public Radio Has Struggled To Diversify Its Audience And Not Succeeded
None of these efforts moved the audience measurement needle, in most cases because they didn’t sufficiently address the primary cause of audience — the...
Losing Your Mind? Forgetting Is Part Of The Design For How Memory Works
“The problem isn’t your memory, it’s that we have the wrong expectations for what memory is for in the first place. Severe memory loss is...
The Secret To Preserving Ancient Papyrus Can Be Found At Your Favorite Sushi Bar
"Wasabi vapors have been found to effectively treat fungal infections on both painted and unpainted samples of mock ancient Egyptian papyrus, and to do...
Apple Is Fined $2 Billion By The EU Over Access To App Subscriptions To...
The European Commission, the EU’s executive body, said it found the company violated antitrust rules by restricting app developers from telling users about alternative...
From The Creator Of “A Strange Loop,” A Musical About A Vagina Dentata
"If you’re going to musicalize a horror movie, Teeth is a doozy, and a gamble. Darkly comic and at times stomach-churningly gory, it’s a...
It’s Musicians Who Are Getting Hurt By The TikTok Music Ban
“TikTok is how you get the word out about a new song — and now you’re muting someone’s entire catalog? The labels say TikTok...
Pritzker Prize For 2024 Goes To Riken Yamamoto, Known For Innovative Housing Projects
"Across a five-decade career, Yamamoto has dedicated himself to fostering community in Japan’s rapidly expanding cities. From housing projects that coax residents into spontaneous...
UK Backs Down, Grants Visas To Afghan Youth Orchestra Musicians
The band of 47 exiled musicians aged between 14 and 22 had been working for months on their repertoire for the shows, which are...
Archaeologists Discover An Ancient Factory For Making The Legendary Pigment Tyrian Purple
"A new study ... suggests that through most of the Iron Age biblical era, from roughly 1150 B.C. to 600 B.C., a small promontory...
Study: Millions Of Research Papers Are Not Being Properly Preserved Online
More than one-quarter of scholarly articles are not being properly archived and preserved, a study of more than seven million digital publications suggests. The...
New Zealand Loses Its Last Private-Sector TV News Outlet
"Warner Bros Discovery plans to shut down Newshub, a rebranded version of what most of us grew up knowing as '3 News' – leaving...
Can Buskers Revive Downtown San Francisco?
"The latest effort to breathe life into San Francisco’s struggling Mid-Market neighborhood involves bringing amateur musicians to the streets. The nonprofit Mid-Market Business Association...
Carlos Acosta Is Creating A Cuban-Style “Nutcracker”
Nutcracker in Havana, performed by Acosta's Cuba-based company, Acosta Danza, "will weave traditional Cuban rhythms and dances together with classical ballet, all set to...
This Israel-Hamas War’s Spillover Into Cultural Life
"How is what's happening in the Middle East - and the tensions being driven here by war and violence there — impacting the UK's...
RuPaul Is Sending A Rainbow Book Bus Across America To Give Away Banned Books
"The country’s most famous drag star … (is) one of three business partners behind Allstora, which will ... provide writers with a greater share...
Canada’s First Lady Of Jazz, Eleanor Collins, Has Died At 104
"A luminous singer who performed with jazz legends including Dizzy Gillespie and Oscar Peterson, Ms. Collins spent her entire career in Canada. … (Said...
These Art Vandals Were Protesting Something Besides Climate Change (So They Attacked Queen Victoria)
Activists from the group This Is Rigged poured porridge and jam on a bust of Victoria at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow on...
Was Keith Haring A Sellout?
There are few artists whose signature styles have been so widely, unashamedly capitalized by big brands (with the help of estates and foundations). But...
New Dance Company In Ireland Will Change Irish Dance
The establishment of a new, all-Ireland dance company has been described as “a new dawn” for the art form in Ireland by the Arts...
Why Is There No Best Choreography Oscar?
Why isn’t there an Oscar for best choreography? It’s a question people in the dance world have been asking for decades. And there’s no...
How AI Is Going To Starve News
We spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on writers, then on editing and fact-checking their findings. Perplexity gets it all for free....
Reframing Sleep In a Cultural/Artistic Way
Works of literature and art, for example, can teach us to challenge dominant visions of sleep, allowing us to see sleep as a place...
AI Is Neither Artificial Or Intelligent
Let me explain why I think that it is in fact a mistake to use the term “artificial intelligence” to refer to these systems....
What Happens To Your Music If Your Streaming Service Goes Away?
The reason I’m screwed is that Spotify listeners’ ability to access their collection in the far-out future will be contingent on the company maintaining...
TikTok Has Become Broadcast TV
The algorithm ends up being a centralizing force; although the viewing options on TikTok can feel limitless, the reality is that you are being...
