Some of the people who built video programs are now horrified by how many places a child can now watch a video. For longtime tech leaders, watching how the tools they built affect their children has felt like a reckoning on their life and work.
Author: Douglas McLennan
Actor Robert Hooks On The Difficulties Of Sustaining Black Theatre In America
The closest thing to a black theater company that is able to survive and sustain itself is the St. Louis Black Rep. And theater companies — let’s just take Los Angeles, for example — the Los Angeles Music Center downtown and Mark Taper Forum and all the people that run those companies are getting the grants from the foundations I couldn’t get because they did one black play in their season. The black theater producers, the people who are in the community need the grants, and they can’t get them because the established theaters downtown are taking advantage of those grants.
Huge Breakthrough In Math Shows The Limits Of Symmetry
This new work says in precise fashion: These symmetries can exist in one type of space, but not in another. The achievement comes after progress on the conjecture had been stalled for decades.
Denver Building Its New Reputation For Culture
It helps that Denver, despite lingering cowtown stereotypes, can boast of motivated audiences. Colorado ranks third nationally in attendance for live music, theater or dance shows at 44.4 percent of all adults participating, according to a 2016 study by the National Endowment for the Arts.
New Thinking On The Cerebellum: There’s A Lot There
An ancient part of the brain long ignored by the scientific world appears to play a critical role in everything from language and emotions to daily planning.
First AI-Created Art Work Sells At Auction For An Astonishing $432,000
The sale is unusual not only as a first for the 252-year-old auction house, but because the expected price for the print was between $7,000 and $10,000.
Man Tries To Steal Magna Carta From Salisbury Cathedral
Yesterday afternoon alarms were activated when a man smashed the glass box surrounding the Magna Carta, which is displayed to visitors in the cathedral’s chapter house. This was shortly before 5pm, when the exhibition was due to close to the public. Police were immediately called and the entire cathedral was evacuated. There were no injuries.
Dead Sea Scrolls Forgeries Cast Doubt On Bible Museum
The revelation about the five Dead Sea Scrolls fragments reflects an ongoing tension between biblical-studies scholars and the museum. In their book Bible Nation, the scholars Candida Moss and Joel Baden criticized the Green organization for lacking “any sense of due diligence.” Judicious sourcing of artifacts is especially important given the rampant looting of archaeological sites in the Middle East in recent decades. Since the 1990s, hundreds of thousands of artifacts have been looted from Iraq alone. At this point, any recently discovered artifact being billed as an authentic fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls has to be met with cautious scrutiny.
Did You Know You Could Stream Movies From The Library Of Congress?
The Library of Congress isn’t Netflix: You won’t be able to watch current Hollywood blockbusters and every season of your favorite TV show. You will, however, find historical films and newsreels ranging from Depression-era documentaries to home videos to educational series about mental health.
“Dumbing Down” Has Gotten A Bad Rap
The phrase “dumbing down” got its start in entertainment. During the golden age of Hollywood, in the 1930s, “dumbing down” became a screenwriter’s shorthand for making an idea simple enough that people with limited education or experience could understand it. Over time, it came to refer to intellectual oversimplification of all kinds, particularly in the interest of making something coarsely popular. In education, it named a worry about curricula and policy: that students were being asked to do less, held to a lower standard than necessary than they are capable of—and that is necessary to produce an informed citizenry. In the process, “dumbing down” has entrenched and spread as a lamentation, often well beyond any justification.