Why It’s So Difficult To Spot Liars
One reason we are such poor lie detectors may be because we tend to believe others are telling the truth more often than we...
Producer Floats Proposal To Buy Paramount From Shari Redstone — For Cash
"Film producer David Ellison's Skydance Media is exploring an all-cash deal to acquire National Amusements Inc., the company that controls Paramount Global, (and) merge...
AI Is Great At Creating Personalized Children’s Stories For Your Kids. Here’s The Problem…
The main version of ChatGPT has, since its launch last year, been able to write a children's story, but GPTs allow parents—or anyone, really—to...
Gérard Depardieu Has Finally Brought France To Its Watershed #MeToo Moment
Though the French remain divided over the actor, long a symbol of France's movie industry (he's been in over 150 films), the mounting charges...
Violinist Hilary Hahn Awarded $100,000 Avery Fisher Prize
Previous recipients of the prize, now in its 50th year, have included Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, André Watts, Midori, Joshua Bell, the Emerson and...
Art Thief Arrested On Roof Of Arizona Gallery
Harpreet Singh was captured while trying to escape from American Fine Art in Scottsdale. He had taken works worth hundreds of thousands of dollars,...
Audible, Amazon’s Spoken-Word Unit, Lays Off Five Percent Of Its Staff
The news comes one day after Amazon announced the elimination of hundreds of positions at its movie/video studios. - The Hollywood Reporter
In Response To Federal Regulations, Chicago’s Field Museum Has Covered Displays Of Native American...
"The decision relates to a provision that requires institutions to 'obtain free, prior and informed consent' from tribes before exhibiting cultural items or human...
Conductor Jan Latham-Koenig Arrested In London For Sexual Communication With A Minor
The 70-year-old has been charged with "arranging/facilitating a child sexual offence and sexual communication with a child." He has had a major guest-conducting career...
Franz Welser-Möst Announces Retirement Date From Cleveland Orchestra
The Austrian conductor, now 63, announced that he will not renew his current contract when it expires at the end of the 2026-27 season....
Proposal For A New Law To Protect Artists From Being Digitally Cloned By AI
If signed into law, the proposal, called the No AI Fraud Act, could curb a growing trend of individuals and businesses creating AI-recorded tracks using...
Why Scientists Can’t Give Up Their Chalkboards
No one appreciates the power of this venerable technology better than physicists and mathematicians, who infinitely prefer the humble blackboard to its high-tech rivals....
Want To Be The Next Director Of The British Museum? Here’s The Job
Applicants must have a “vision for the future of the British Museum and its purpose as a national and a global museum in the...
Is Teresa de Keersmaeker The World’s Best Dancer?
Arguably the world’s most celebrated dancer and choreographer, De Keersmaeker has produced a vast body of work over four decades, from major theatre productions...
Why You Need To Learn To Think In Probabilities
One of the most important conceptual developments of the past few decades is the realisation that belief comes in degrees. We don’t just believe something...
The Audacious Scheme To Sell The World’s Most Expensive Painting Ever
Of the multiple schemes and fabrications attributed to Bouvier in court the most audacious involved Dmitry Rybolovlev’s acquisition of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, which...
Can A Female Composer’s Music Be “Virile”?
The words "virile" or "virility" were constantly used in reviews of the music of the late 19th-century Irish-French composer Augusta Holmès. What's more, "Holmès's...
Algorithms Are Increasingly Choosing Our Culture. Here’s How They Fail
To build algorithms that more effectively predict user preferences and better enhance consumer well-being and social welfare, organizations need to employ ways to measure...
Behind The Scenes With An NBA Team’s Dance Squad
A reporter visits the dancers for the Utah Jazz to see the elements that go into their work, from selecting members to costumes and...
Britannica Once Published “The World’s 102 Great Ideas.” Ambitious, Yes, But Also A Flawed...
Devised at a time before computers were widely available, the index was certainly an impressive achievement. It had taken 24 researchers some five years...
“Not A Cult To One Dead White Guy”: Marin Shakespeare Is Rethinking What A...
Under new artistic director Jon Tracy, Marin Shakespeare is undertaking a slew of new initiatives: adding nine artistic associates, hosting other stage companies in...
How Consolidation Has Changed Book Publishing
Up to the immediate post-WWII period, publishing was a fairly local, personal business, with houses founded by whiskered men shipping out books to stores...
Actors Share Their Secrets For Recreating Bodily Functions And Fluids Onstage
Crying live is the standard challenge, but these actors have also had to simulate coughing, sneezing, climaxing and even vomiting in front of an...
Fraught: Museums Are Changing How They Collect Antiquities
Acquiring older cultural objects through purchase or donation can be risky for museums if they suspect the art or artifacts might have to be...
OpenAI, Deluged By Copyright Lawsuits, Says That Artificial Intelligence Would Be Impossible Without Copyrighted...
"OpenAI, the organization behind ChatGPT and text-to-image generator DALL-E, … (told Britain's House of Lords that) 'limiting training data to public domain books and...
