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Lost Work By Galen, Father Of Medical Science, Found In Ancient Monks’ Hymnbook

A translation into Syriac of one of the 2nd-century Greek physician’s treatises has been discovered as a palimpsest on the pages of an 11th-century Syriac psalter that once belonged to the Monastery of St. Catherine in the Sinai. Researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Silicon Valley are now scanning the book to recover as much text as possible.

Banksy Puts Up A New Work In New York: A Rat (Of Course)

It’s even more fitting than you think: not only has the world’s only celebrity guerrilla artist tagged the Big Apple with an image of its emblematic mammal, he’s made it represent the city’s emblematic metaphor for work and career. (Sorry, there’s no pizza.)

Pittsburgh Ballet Presents Seven New Works Choreographed By Its Own Dancers

“‘PBT: New Works’ marks the first time the company has mounted a full showcase of dancers’ choreography for a mainstage performance. However, nurturing emerging choreographers on PBT’s roster has been a mission for [artistic director Terrence] Orr for the past few years.”

Pittsburgh Ballet Dancers Talk About The New Pieces They’ve Choreographed For The Company

Corps member William Moore on his Weighted Affair: “I wanted to create a simple narrative – a dinner party with friends – to try to show the sometimes conflicting nature between what someone thinks as opposed to what they choose to actually portray in reality.”

How British Theatre Is Starting To Address Its Class Problem

For all the attention that’s now being paid to correcting the longstanding obstacles that women and minorities face in the field, a number of British theater workers (both onstage and backstage) argue that the barriers against the working class in a thoroughly middle- and upper-middle-class industry are worse. Lyn Gardner talks to a number of those workers about the class problem – and about what they’re doing to fix it.

Paris’s Museum Of Decorative Arts, Tired Of Being Confused With Other Institutions, Rebrands

“The Musée des Arts Décoratifs has long had an identity crisis. It is in a 19th-century wing of the Louvre building … but it does not belong to the Louvre. It gets confused with the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, the elite national school for art and design on the other side of the Seine River, even though there is no connection between the two institutions. And it is not a museum dedicated to the early 20th-century Art Deco movement, even though ‘Art Deco’ is shorthand for ‘Arts Décoratifs.’ So in January, in an effort to reinvent itself, the museum changed its name.”

Hungary’s National Opera And Ballet To Make Their First-Ever Visit To U.S.

“The Hungarian State Opera and Hungarian National Ballet will make their US debut by sending 350 musicians and dancers to New York with support from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s right-wing government. The October 30-November 11 performances at Lincoln Center will highlight Hungarian works including Bánk Bán, a signature opera of national anthem composer Ferenc Erkel, and Bluebeard’s Castle, the only opera of early 20th-century giant Béla Bartók.”

What If Trying To Choose The “Best” Option Is A Bad Strategy?

Built into the standard conception of rationality are two fundamental assumptions. The first is that there is a best way for any life to be. The second is a more technical assumption – I’ll call it the Axiom of Transitivity for Better Than – which holds that for any three choices, if the first option is better than the second, and the second option is better than the third, then the first option must be better than the third.

3D-Printed Houses That Can Be Built In a Day

Using the Vulcan printer, ICON can print an entire home for $10,000 and plans to bring costs down to $4,000 per house. “It’s much cheaper than the typical American home.” It’s capable of printing a home that’s 800 square feet, a significantly bigger structure than properties pushed by the tiny home movement, which top out at about 400 square feet. In contrast, the average New York apartment is about 866 square feet.