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In the mid 1960s, researchers found that murmurating birds, particularly starlings, interact"not always, but often"with six or seven of their closest neighbors, who interact with six or seve…
Recent advances in computational methods and data science push us into rethinking science and engineering. Computers increasingly become principal actors in leveraging data to formulate ques…
While learning an instrument is all of that and more for some people, music lessons can also be the locus of a very particular set of traumas, from the indignity of being forced to practise …
Indeed, cartoonist Chris Riddell thinks younger artists should follow their passion by "bunking off" school, if necessary, to get their true arts education. " The Observer (UK)
A nest built on top of a painting is probably younger than the painting, but a nest covered over with pigment is probably older than the painting. At one site, ancient people had painted a f…
Widespread cinema closures across China, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan and South Korea have already done drastic damage to the global box office, with one consulting firm suggesting that the loss …
After a huge project that involved picking over tens of thousands of example sentences, Oxford University Press (OUP) has been quietly replacing hundreds of those that "unnecessarily perpetu…
"The halls of academe are known to be hospitable to people with radical views on power relationships between capital and labor, but colleges themselves are often merciless actors in the labo…
Though bars, restaurants, and gyms remain open, as long as managers can guarantee that people remain at least three feet away from each other at all times, the country's entire cultural capi…
And just in time " a lot of the "dream cast" for the documentary is aging, with at least one collector/vendor/devotée dying before the documentarians could get to work. "The profession is d…
What if you just looked away instead? Another radical idea from Great Britain. "The Guardian (UK)
Author Rachel Vorona Cote: "Despite my best efforts, I am not chill, and will never be chill"I possess only meager crumbs of that coveted asset. So, I muddle on as best I can. Reading is a s…
Lyn Gardner takes a look at history. "Shakespeare's fellow thespians toured out of London, far away from the plague's more deadly ravages. But that is not an option for theatremakers in the …
Guess that's "appropriate social distance." (For more about how hard the book fair cancellation is hitting Germany's, and the world's, book industry, click this link.) " Süddeutsche Zeitung…
One theory about why: "Pandemic fiction is about how people behave in response to acute, sudden-onset helplessness. When we're confronted with that helplessness in real life, watching some v…
Why is Leeds University a hotbed for feminist art and artists? Well, it's down to one woman: "Griselda Pollock, professor of social and critical histories of art at Leeds University. With a …
Why? Because they're in city-owned buildings, and "San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced on Friday, March 6, that War Memorial and Performing Arts Center venues, including the Lou…
The Djoser pyramid (built under the famous ancient architect Imhotep) was damaged in an earthquake in the 1990s, but restoration didn't begin until the early 2000s. Interrupted by the "Arab …
That's partly because of a craze for exploring abandoned buildings " and partly because the buildings were abandoned in the first place, attracting people who have done everything from kick …
After Hachette canceled its original secretly arrived at plan to publish Allen's memoir, the horror writer tweeted "The Hachette decision to drop the Woody Allen book makes me very uneasy. I…
There's a lot of plastic in the ocean " and a lot of demand for the nonprofit group Washed Ashore's large-scale art, including at the Oregon Zoo, the Florida Aquarium, and the Oakland Zoo. T…
"Night Club Boom," a March of Time newsreel about New York nightclubs originally released in 1946. Among the musicians seen performing are Jimmy Dorsey, the Ink Spots, and Eddie Condon's …
"Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their…
Artists who fled the 1979 revolution with their families " especially if they were young " are seeing a renewed interest in their work from British and US buyers. But there's "a growing gap …
Seriously, this book has a lot of endings. " Sri Lanka Mirror
