Social Media Is Flooding Us With Addictive Junk News
A digital drug for anyone with a phone, and especially young people, the TikTok app uses random reinforcement — similar to a slot machine...
The Weird Spat Over A Star NPR Reporter’s Report On The Supreme Court
In her own telephone conversation with The Daily Beast, Nina Totenberg—a towering presence at NPR who has been there since 1975—responded to NPR's public...
Why Spats In Academia Are So Nasty
Reviewers are faced with essays that are additions to their already heavy workloads that could have used more time. And the inclination to take...
Artists To “Meta”: We Don’t Trust You
Many have begun fleeing Instagram... They expressed skepticism that Meta, a social-media behemoth, could develop, launch and manage a marketplace where they weren’t looking...
Meet The Organist Whose Concerts Get Protested By Conservative Catholics As Satanic
Anna von Hausswolff can joke about it, but enraged demonstrators have actually shut down concerts of hers. All because a music blogger called her...
Medical Humanities — Using Art To Build Better Doctors
“Things like disease, disability, death, the processes of scientific experimentation and discovery, they don’t happen in a vacuum. They take place in the context...
Why Do Certain Sentences Become Famous Independently Of The Works They’re Part Of?
"You can't handle the truth!" or "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." "Celebrity sentences," Nicola Sayers dubs them. "There are countless brilliant...
Report: Why Did The Glasgow School Of Art Burn Down In 2018?
Following an investigation lasting more than three years, the final report concluded that the cause of the second blaze remained "undetermined". It said this was due...
Getting Copyright, And Compensation, For The Choreographers Of Hit Music Videos — Including TikTok
Says dancer/choreographer JaQuel Knight, who founded Knight Choreography and Music Publishing Inc. to address the issue, "Over the past year and a half, so...
Omicron Is Wreaking Havoc With Touring Broadway Shows
“Touring, when we can perform, is going great — the audiences are showing up, and the audiences are enthusiastic. Touring is not going great...
Countries That Fund Public Broadcasting Better Have Healthier Democracies: Study
The question is: in which direction does the causality run? - Nieman Lab
COVID Is Changing The Way Film Festivals Work (For The Better)
Now that the movies being showcased at festivals might end up spending their opening weekend screening on your iPhone anyway, does it matter if...
Cairo’s Biggest Makeover In Decades Is Focused On Egyptian Culture
"The renaissance of traditions spans everything from new museum exhibits to artisans integrating old crafts into modern furniture and designers selling handmade jewelry, bags...
Netflix’s First Original Feature In Arabic Accused Of “Moral Degradation”, “Inciting Homosexuality And Betrayal”
The film, a Lebanon-set adaptation of the much-remade Italian film Perfect Strangers, includes unfaithful spouses, a gay character, and a woman removing her undergarments...
As Big West End Shows Offer Massive Discounts, Smaller Shows Are Being Squeezed Out
"Theatre producer David Pugh (fears) it could spell the end of plays in the West End. … By contrast with his show, where tickets...
UK’s First Dedicated LGBTQ+ Museum To Open In London This Year
"The charity Queer Britain has taken on the ground floor of the Art Fund building in (King's Cross) for the museum but hopes to...
Paris Surgeon Tried To Sell X-Ray Of Bataclan Shooting Victim As NFT
Dr. Emmanuel Masmejean, an orthopedic surgeon who claims to have operated on five victims of the 2015 terrorist attack, listed on the NFT sales...
Elza Soares, Brazil’s Grande Dame Of Samba, Dead At 91
"(She) rose from the slums of Rio de Janeiro and became one of Brazil's most popular singers of all time by fusing the traditional...
Dallas Museum Of Art Begins Planning For Major Expansion
"'We are now at the very early stages of planning what this will look like,' says the museum's director, Agustín Arteaga." An architecture firm...
Why Is Canadian Architecture So Dreadful?
Today, barring the newish Halifax and Calgary central libraries (which opened in 2014 and 2018, respectively), one wonders whether the average Canadian could name...
Broadway Fires Its Harry Potter
The show on Sunday issued a statement saying that James Snyder, who played the title role for about a year before the pandemic and...
Having Trouble Focusing? Here’s Why
Our brains aren’t designed to absorb so much at a time: In one study, 136 students took a test; some had their phones turned...
Lee Godie Was Chicago’s Iconic ‘Bag Lady’ Artist
Godie was a "weathered blond woman wearing a rabbit fur coat and men’s orthopedic slip-ons as she hawked her art on Michigan Avenue." The...
Catch The “Vibe”
Once, vibe, mood, and energy were watchwords of the counterculture. Today, this vocabulary has diffused beyond any niche group. - The Drift
What We Learned About Teaching Music Online
Going online has forced music educators to adapt existing ideas, or adopt existing technology, to discover, invent and share ways to reach students to...
