Hollywood Wonders Who’s Next

Though let’s be honest here, Hollywood probably knows who SHOULD be next. “This is, after all, Hollywood in the age of President Trump, a reality show host who crystallized the marriage of celebrity and politics, and a candidate who admitted to groping women only to land in the White House. The entertainment industry railed at Trump but the allegations against Weinstein, Ratner and others suggest a long pattern of abuse perpetrated by men who considered themselves artists and liberals.”

Galleries And Collectors Are Getting Cyber-Scammed To The Tune Of Millions

It’s a simple scam, but it’s effective: “Criminals hack into an art dealer’s email account and monitor incoming and outgoing correspondence. When the gallery sends a PDF invoice to a client via email following a sale, the conversation is hijacked. Posing as the gallery, hackers send a duplicate, fraudulent invoice from the same gallery email address, with an accompanying message instructing the client to disregard the first invoice and instead wire payment to the account listed in the fraudulent document.”

Canadian Bookstore Chain Indigo Will Enter The U.S. Market

Good book news for New Jersey and the four or five other places the store will open in the next two years? Maybe. “The chain also continues to roll out a new bookstore concept which it introduced in 2016. The new concept re-positions the chain’s larger locations as ‘cultural department stores’ and places an equal emphasis on the sale of non-book items, as well as books.”

The Atomic Theory Of Origami

Physicists are using statistical mechanics to study origami folds – and defects in the folds. Why? “Crease patterns are also networks—not of particles, but of folds. Using these conceptual tools normally reserved for gases and crystals, Assis is gaining some intriguing insights.”

The History Of Reading In Bed May Be Ending

“Sounds a lot, but it would turn out to be a brief history. Universal literacy isn’t that old. Nor is the luxury of sleeping alone. Couldn’t have been much fun when there were five of you on a mattress, one guffawing over Smollett while another was calling hysterically for Heathcliff and the candle was going out.” And the other bookend would be another gift of modernity: television, and streaming.