“When we talk we take turns, where the ‘right’ to speak flips back and forth between partners. This conversational pitter-patter is so familiar and seemingly unremarkable that we rarely remark on it. But consider the timing: on average, each turn lasts for around 2 seconds, and the typical gap between them is just 200 milliseconds—barely enough time to utter a syllable. That figure is nigh-universal. It exists across cultures, with only slight variations. It’s even there in sign language conversations.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
No, That Photo Of Drunk People And Paramedics In Manchester Is Not Like A Renaissance Painting
“Artists in those days trained for years in drawing, painting and sculpting, under exacting apprenticeship conditions, and when they did start making art in their own right, it was a deeply skilled and difficult enterprise. Works such as the Last Supper or the Sistine ceiling are among the greatest miracles of human achievement. It’s an insult to the capabilities of human beings at their most refined to casually compare this photograph with these works.”
Novelist Manuel Ramos Keeps History Real In His Books About Denver
“He is known as a crime writer, but that doesn’t quite capture what he does. His books are love stories, political dramas, mordant cautionary tales. Characters who are Latino, black and white, artists, professionals and laborers, are described in staccato chapters, like a catchy corrido. ‘It’s hard to find anything about Latinos in fiction about Denver,’ Ramos says. ‘I’m doing something that’s not done.'”
The Pennsylvania Ballet Roasted A Football Fan Who Whined About Tutus
“A Facebook user recently commented that the Eagles had ‘played like they were wearing tutus!!!’ Our response: ‘With all due respect to the Eagles, let’s take a minute to look at what our tutu wearing women have done this month.'”
Is Tyler Perry A Traitor Or A Savior Or A Little Bit Of Both?
“It comes down to the question of who gets to decide what’s good for black people. Should all kinds of blackness be shown, or should its representation be curated? To Perry, no one should have the authority to make that call.”
Hollywood And Fake Diversity
Director Lexi Alexander: “We now have Hollywood power people organizing diversity camps, which we get to read about in articles that include hilariously gung-ho diversity quotes from the worst … no let me write this in capitol letters THE WORST diversity offenders of Hollywood. And nobody bats an eye. Not a single entertainment reporter thinks to compare these people’s diversity record against the story they’re spinning.”
National Symphony Names New Music Director
“Months before expected, the National Symphony Orchestra has named Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda, 51, as its new music director. He will take over in the 2017-18 season, after one season as music director designate in 2016-17, the orchestra announced. His initial contract will run through 2020-21. It’s a coup for the NSO.”
Three Theatre Legends Finally Collaborate
“There’s reminiscence and confession, sibling rivalry and narcissism, moments that are remembered differently by different relatives, and a buried secret linked — yes! — to the Cold War. Add funny repartee and a Burberry trench coat, and you have the kind of play that Manhattan Theater Club audiences eat up.”
How To Control Your Facebook Feed
“Every time you open Facebook, one of the world’s most influential, controversial, and misunderstood algorithms springs into action. It scans and collects everything posted in the past week by each of your friends, everyone you follow, each group you belong to, and every Facebook page you’ve liked. For the average Facebook user, that’s more than 1,500 posts. If you have several hundred friends, it could be as many as 10,000. Then, according to a closely guarded and constantly shifting formula, Facebook’s news feed algorithm ranks them all, in what it believes to be the precise order of how likely you are to find each post worthwhile.”
Who Stole Lincoln’s Hand From This Illinois Museum?
“Museum officials had thought that the theft might have been a prank, and that the plaster study would resurface in a few days. The police hoped someone might provide information about the theft after seeing a Facebook post by the department, which included photographs and described the hand as roughly ‘the size of a 8-10 pound ham.’ The local newspaper, The Daily Journal, published an editorial pleading for the thief to come forward.”