“Researchers have demonstrated a striking method to reconstruct words, based on the brain waves of patients thinking of those words.”
Tag: 01.31.12
Britain’s Young Black Actors Should Go To America, Says Top British Black Actor
David Harewood, Birmingham-born star of US cable series Homeland: “Unfortunately there really aren’t that many roles for authoritative, strong, black characters in this country. We just don’t write those characters, that’s a fact. … I would encourage, particularly young, black actors, to get to America … as quickly as they can.”
Israeli Nationalist Group Campaigns Against Arab-Israeli Actor
Im Tzirtu, an organization created after the second Lebanon war which “acts to strengthen and promote Zionist values in Israel”, is running pickets and media protests against a Tel Aviv theater’s engagement (to play Bernarda Alba!) of Mohammed Bakri, who made a controversial 2002 movie about the Israeli Defence Forces’ actions in Lebanon’s Jenin refugee camp.
After 50 Years, Dictionary Of American Regional English Is Finished
“From whoopensocker to upscuddle, strubbly to swivet, 50 years after it was first conceived the Dictionary of American Regional English is finally about to reach the end of the alphabet. The fifth volume of the dictionary, covering ‘slab’ to ‘zydeco’, is out in March.”
NBC Jumps Into Publishing
“NBC Publishing’s current plan is to release its first e-book in February and 30 over the course of the year. This will include both multimedia and E Ink books — and in some cases, print copies, too, probably in partnership with another publisher.”
Leonardo Replica Of Mona Lisa Discovered In The Prado
“What is most exciting about the Prado replica is what it reveals about Leonardo’s original. In the Madrid copy there are areas that are better preserved than in the Louvre painting.” Compare the two in an interactive screen here.
India Art Fair Struggles To Join World Circuit
“Nothing is simple in India. Although the government had agreed to waive a customs levy on imports, there was still duty and 12.5% sales tax to be paid on anything bought at the fair, with the result that dealers were reserving rather than selling and concluding transactions out of the country. The organisers also had to contend with India’s notoriously obstructive and lackadaisical bureaucracy–for example, the road to the fair was only paved the day before it opened.”
Is It Time To Relax Grammar Rules In Digital Communication?
“Seventy-two percent of adult cell phone users send and receive regular text messages, according to the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project. The numbers rise to 87 percent for teens, who average 50 text messages a day. We’re not speaking into a microphone, but we’re certainly recording our thoughts in ways that make them both public and possibly eternal. So how careful should we be about our grammar?”
Chicago Mayor Asks City’s Libraries To Help Students
“In the summer months, our children, not just in the city of Chicago but across the country, lose about six months of their educational standards from one grade to the next,” Rahm Emanuel said at a City Hall news conference. “And one of the things I asked him to take on was to find that mission in the summer, how the Chicago Public Library can step into that void.”
Musicians Drop Unfair Claim Against Louisville Orchestra
“The Louisville musicians union has withdrawn its charge of unfair labor practices against the Louisville Orchestra board and management, saying it wants to work on resolving the problems.”