We’re suckers for these galleries – it’s pure library picture porn. The amazing images of these libraries around the world speak to the place books have in our consciousness.
Author: Douglas McLennan
UK Declares Itself A Leader In “Ethical” AI
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May announced her country’s goal to become a world leader in “ethical A.I.” Three months later, the U.K. unveiled its A.I. Sector Deal, a comprehensive policy that establishes a partnership between government, academia, and industry to address residents’ and businesses’ goals and concerns with respect to A.I.
Smithsonian Asks: What’s The Role Of Art Today?
In a series of conversations and essays, the Smithsonian explores how art interacts with the contemporary world and how its role is evolving.
Screen-Based Learning Is A Poor Substitute For Real Experience – We Need To Rethink Learning
Many adults appreciate the power of computers and the internet, and think that children should have access to them as soon as possible. Yet screen learning displaces other, more tactile ways to discover the world. Human beings learn with their eyes, yes, but also their ears, nose, mouth, skin, heart, hands, feet. The more time kids spend on computers, the less time they have to go on field trips, build model airplanes, have recess, hold a book in their hands, or talk with teachers and friends.
An Arms Race For Truth: The Increasingly Sophisticated Efforts To Scam Journalists
The problem for newsrooms is threefold: how to identify sophisticated manipulations, how to educate audiences without inducing apathy and deepening mistrust, and how to keep the growth of this technology from casting doubt on legitimate and truthful stories.
Why We Still Revere French As A Language
Having survived decade after decade of the America-dominated post–World War II global order, French may indeed look a bit worse for wear, cluttered with sometimes risible English loanwords and dismissed as useless by the increasingly many students who pass it up in favor of Spanish and Mandarin. Yet however many now regard the French language as little more than a fussy antiquarian hobby, as many others continue to revere it.
Study: Reality TV Perpetuates Stereotypes Of African Americans
A new study of reality television suggests that much-derided genre falls on the negative side of the scale. It finds that, to a surprising degree, it relies on the stereotypes of the aggressively angry African American.
Music Piracy Falls – It’s Now Easier To Stream It
One in 10 people in the UK use illegal downloads, down from 18% in 2013, according to YouGov’s Music Report. The trend looks set to continue – with 22% of those who get their music illegitimately saying they do not expect to be doing so in five years.
Will The Success Of “Waitress” Lead To More Women-Led Theatre On Broadway?
“My takeaway was that there was great excitement, and almost a sense of relief, to see women being offered these roles,” Sara Bareilles says of “Waitress.” “And the most exciting thing is looking at the next generation of composers, book writers, directors and choreographers now that there’s this wonderful network of women in the industry.”
Arts Organizations Increasingly Acknowledge First Peoples Before Beginning
Routine at public gatherings in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, the custom of Indigenous land acknowledgment, or acknowledgment of country, has only recently started to gain traction in the United States outside of tribal nations. In New York City the practice is sporadic but growing, occasionally heard at high-profile cultural and educational institutions like the Whitney Museum of American Art and New York University.