Researchers gave 1,000 pupils a list of 13 names, including Alesha Dixon and Neville Chamberlain, and asked which were playwrights. Seven out of ten managed to pick William Shakespeare from the list.
Author: Douglas McLennan
Cleveland Orchestra Fires Concertmaster, One Other Musician After Harassment Investigation
“The investigators found that Mr. Preucil and Mr. La Rosa engaged in sexual misconduct and sexually harassing behavior with multiple female students and colleagues over a period of years while employed by the Orchestra,” the orchestra’s statement read.
Omaha’s Joslyn Museum Plans Ambitious Major Expansion
Museum officials unveiled the architecture firm handpicked to design that new building — the same firm that designed the Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion, reimagined an ancient Egyptian library and expanded the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It’s a big-time move, a big-money move, a big-city move.
YouTube Went Down For An Hour And… Traffic To News Sites Increased 20 Percent
A one-hour YouTube outage on October 16 at around 9 p.m. ET resulted in a 20 percent net increase in traffic to client publishers’ sites, Chartbeat found.
Netflix Draws Fierce Global Competition
The push to create rivals to stunt the growth of Netflix has become a global phenomenon, as the streamer is now available in 190 countries and is poised to consistently make more money in the future abroad than in the U.S.
Apple To Roll Out New Streaming Video Next Year?
The service, which may exist as a standalone app or within the existing TV app, will launch in the US first and become available in more than 100 countries after a few months of availability, the report says. It will feature a mix of original programming, access to third-party services, and the ability to subscribe directly to channel packages offered by network and cable providers, similar to Amazon’s Channels feature.
New York City Allocates $198 Million To Culture Spending – Largest Ever
977 cultural organizations throughout New York City will benefit from the $43.9 million in grants. In 2014, the DCLA provided $31.3 million for cultural programs — 2019 represents a 40% increase.
Ancient Greek Sculptures Were Gaudily Colored. So Why Do We Think They’re Supposed To Be White?
“It’s like the best-kept secret that’s not even a secret. Saying you’ve seen these sculptures when you’ve seen only the white marble is comparable to somebody coming from the beach and saying they’ve seen a whale because there was a skeleton on the beach.”
Woman Rustles Candy During Mahler Performance, Fight Ensues
As Andris Nelsons, an eminent Latvian conductor, coaxed the quiet notes from the string section of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, a woman in the balcony rustled a bag of gum, the Sydsvenskan newspaper reported. A young man sitting next to her glared a few times and then lost his patience. He snatched the bag from her and threw it onto the floor.
Why Do We Tend To Particularly Distrust Experts?
The US has had a long history of mistrust in highly educated professionals, but we seem to have shifted to a situation in which expertise has become both a disqualification and a reason for attack.