Zoologist Antone Martinho: “Were I not an animal behaviour researcher, I would hardly notice; but because I am, I constantly ask myself: why do I treat my pets like thinking, conscious companions, and the ducklings in my lab like feathered robots? The reluctance of my field to engage seriously with animal consciousness is, I believe, holding back our efforts to truly understand their behaviour.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Faculty At Notre Dame Demand Inclusion On Conservatives’ Professor Watchlist
Last month the conservative youth group Turning Point USA launched this website to identify academics who (in the opinion of Turning Pointers) “advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.” (Last week George Yancy wrote an Op-Ed for the New York Times about finding his name on it.) Now, saying “this is the sort of company we wish to keep,” more than 100 professors at Notre Dame have signed an open letter asking to be included.
Watchlist Redux Augments Professor Watchlist With Others Who Should Be On It – Like Socrates, Jefferson, And Jesus
“Redux includes two lists of radical thinkers: those of the past and present, respectively. The past list includes blurbs about influential thinkers from Socrates to Thomas Jefferson to Anna J. Cooper to Alan Turing, with some perhaps unexpected entries. An entry on Jesus of Nazareth, for example, reads, ‘Notorious radical and troublemaker, taught the poor, executed by the state.'”
We Have A Winner In The Competition To Light Up London’s Bridges
And he’s an American – in fact, he’s the guy who lit up the new San Francisco Bay Bridge. The £20m project, which covers 17 bridges along a six-mile stretch of the Thames, is one of the largest public art commissions in British history.
Dmitri Hvorostovsky Cancels All Future Opera Performances
While he says he can still do concert performances, that brain tumor continues to wreak its damage.
Lauders Give Portland (Maine) Museum Of Art Largest Matching Gift In Its History
Cosmetic mogul Leonard and his wife, Judy, are giving the museum $5 million (contingent on the raising of a matching amount) toward its $15 million endowment drive.
Dominic Dromgoole Launches A New Classical Theatre Company
“Former Shakespeare’s Globe artistic director Dominic Dromgoole has teamed up with producer Nica Burns to launch a theatre company focused on classic playwrights. Called Classic Spring, it will celebrate the work of proscenium playwrights, including Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, staging their plays in the theatres they wrote for.”
Composer Elliott Schwarz, 80
A mid-century modernist who loved puzzles and puns, Schwartz wrote one piece called By George that spliced together snippets by Georges Gershwin and Handel and another called Elevator Music that had the audience riding in the titular conveyance while musicians played portions of the score on various floors.
Anonymous Donor Saved The Season At Fort Worth Symphony
“[The $700,000 gift] allowed the two sides to agree on a new four-year contract, which was ratified by the musicians on Wednesday, without the cuts that management had sought.”
Dutch National Ballet And Rambert Contemporary Dance Begin Joint Project To Develop Choreographers
“Contemporary dance company Rambert has announced an artistic development partnership with the Dutch National Ballet to nurture choreographers and composers from both companies. The partnership will begin with a joint programme of exchange between both companies and the artists working within them.”