“Scholars tend to disagree on what plagiarism is and how to distinguish it from paraphrasing. Many scholars say plagiarism is defined as five or more words used directly from another source without attribution. Sometimes plagiarism is an obvious copy-and-paste job, while other times it’s more subtle.”
Month: July 2016
How Diversity Is Forging A New Flowering Of Science Fiction
“In the last 15 years, women and women of color have come into the field in unprecedented numbers. But what this means is that we’re in a full flowering of potential for science fiction because we’re getting science fiction from so many different kinds of voices. So what this era will be remembered for is that.”
The 12th-Century Author-Composer-Herbalist-Sex Advisor-Abbess Who Fought The Patriarchy And Won
St. Hildegard of Bingen was even cooler than you knew.
The Peculiar Case Of The Five Stolen Francis Bacon Paintings
“The case seems to have baffled both local police and international investigators. But that’s because every element of the story is baffling.”
David Parsons Is Choreographing For Drones
“‘The drones also become personalities,’ he explained. ‘They become alive. They make decisions in front of your eyes, and so do the [human] performers onstage. So you get the feeling that they have artificial intelligence, that they are thinking. It’s spooky.'”
The Strand Bookstore’s Famous Quiz For Job Applicants (So Just How Smart Are You?)
“There are tests for driver’s licenses and citizenship, for New York City landmarks preservationists and sanitation workers. But a quiz for an entry-level retail job at a bookstore?”
Dante Was A Great Poet – And A Hot-Tempered, Self-Aggrandizing Social Climber
“He was ambitious, had the highest possible opinion of himself and aspired to the life of a noble, or at least to a noble life, a life dedicated to writing. … Dante’s self-image … dominated his writings and conditioned his every move.”
Why Are So Many Artists Choosing To Be Anonymous?
“Welcome to the strange world of modern-day fame, when it helps to be a nobody if you want to be a somebody! In some ways, we are returning to the rules of the medieval world, when major works of art and technology were created by anonymous innovators. But there’s a difference nowadays: Today’s mystery artists cultivate their aura of secrecy. They prefer obscurity over the perks of celebrity status.”
Is The Word ‘Queer’ Expanding Its Meaning, Or Losing It? When Everyone Can Be ‘Queer’, Is Anyone?
Jenna Wortham: “Facebook, which can be seen as a kind of social census, now offers nearly 60 different gender options … Plainly, we are in the midst of a profoundly exhilarating revolution. And ‘queer’ has come to serve as a linguistic catchall for this broadening spectrum of identities, so much so that people who consider themselves straight, but reject heteronormativity, might even call themselves queer. But when everyone can be queer, is anyone?”
Records: Art Looted By Nazis Sold Back To Nazis
“It turns out, the archives show, that hundreds of works were actually sold back at discounted prices in the 1950s and the 1960s to the very Nazis who had taken possession of them, including the widow of Hermann Goering, a senior aide to Hitler who pillaged art to amass a collection of more than a thousand works.”