“I have provoked an aggression in somebody. Sooner or later this aggression was to take the shape of concrete action.”
Month: January 2013
Global Spending On Movies Up In 2012
“Spending on movie theater tickets grew 7 percent to $33.4 billion, while rental or purchase of discs fell 3 percent to $23.7 billion.”
Justin Beiber Just Surpassed Lady Gaga For Most Twitter Followers On The Planet (How’d He Do That?)
“What is the secret to Bieber’s Twitter success? For one thing, as you can see by the screen shot above, Bieber has tweeted about eight times more than Lady Gaga has.”
Remembering The Day Wikipedia Went Dark (And The Internet Rose In Protest)
“Ten million people signed online petitions against SOPA. Eight million looked up their Congressional representatives’ contact information on Wikipedia’s directory and then went to the representatives’ Web pages, inadvertently causing them to crash from all the traffic. Three million people emailed and one hundred thousand called their members of Congress to express their opposition to SOPA.”
Three Arrested In Major Art Heist Case
” ‘Three people have been arrested, but unfortunately we did not get the paintings back,’ a Dutch police spokeswoman confirmed. Seven masterpieces by artists including Picasso and Monet were stolen from the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam.”
So Beyonce Lip-Synced The National Anthem At Inauguration. Does It Matter?
“Less than 24 hours after the social mediaverse collectively patted her on the back for a bright rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner,” Beyonce is being accused of lip syncing the national anthem during Monday’s inauguration ceremony on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.”
Study: Playing A Musical Instrument May Reduce Blood Pressure
The researchers found blood pressure was significantly lower among the musicians, and their heart rate “tended to be lower” than those in the non-musical group. They attribute this to the musicians’ higher levels of “somatosensory nerve activity,” which “beneficially modulate the autonomic nervous system.”
Protest Art Enters The Museum (And A New Generation Arises)
“As the activist art of a half-century ago, like the agitprop art before it, enters museum collections, a new generation is developing its own esthetic.”
That Leap From Biology To Consciousness – What Up?
“Brains and neurons obviously have everything to do with consciousness but how such mere objects can give rise to the eerily different phenomenon of subjective experience seems utterly incomprehensible.”
Does Your Music Preference Predict Your Behavior?
After controlling for such factors as academic achievement, the researchers found “evidence that an early preference for different types of noisy, rebellious, non-mainstream music genres is a strong predictor of concurrent and later minor delinquency.”