“According to Theodor Ebert, an academic at the University of Erlangen, Descartes died not through natural causes but from an arsenic-laced communion wafer given to him by a Catholic priest.”
Tag: 02.14.10
Berlin Wall Was A Great Artwork… Now What?
The cement panels are now sagging and crumbling, and the paint is flaking off. The East Side Gallery has been restored, for the second time, at a cost of €2m – money well spent as it is now Berlin’s leading visitor attraction. Many of the tourists are unaware that the slick images they have come to see were no part of the historic wall.
To Preserve Native Culture – Use Music
“A conference on northern languages in Iqaluit has ended with some participants urging territorial governments to use popular music as a way of promoting and preserving Inuktitut.”
People’s Theatre Awards Vote For London’s Best Performances
Jude Law and Rachel Weisz have scooped the acting honours at this year’s Whatsonstage.com theatre awards, voted for by the public.
The Dance That’s Sweeping Across Africa
There is a “strange wave of contemporary dance that has been blowing across Africa, in what dancers like Opiyo Okach’s Senegalese Germaine Acogny, Ivorian Alphonse Tierou and Beninois Koffi Koko describe as “shifting the centre of African dance”. Opiyo is an award winning dancer at large, with Kenyan roots.
The Ten Most Important American Plays
“So which plays rise to the top over time? The Denver Post asked a long list of theater professionals nationwide to give an opinion. Their cumulative take: U.S. writers have produced only two plays in nearly 50 years that belong beside the very best.”
Making The Case For Fair Use
“The kids who are coming up who often erroneously are being told that all copying is plagiarism, and our bosses and our librarians and our gatekeepers who haven’t gotten the memo yet. The fair use lobby doesn’t have the marketing muscle or the Beltway clout of Hollywood studios, but one thing they’re not is scared.”
Writer Dick Francis, 89
Francis, from Oxfordshire, the author of 42 novels, was “rightly acclaimed” as one of the greatest thriller writers in the world, his spokesman said.
Filmmaker Denied Boarding Plane Because He’s “Too Fat”
“Filmmaker Kevin Smith, fresh from delivering a speech at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, unleashed his fury on Southwest Airlines after the pilot on Smith’s flight from Oakland to Burbank ejected him for being “too fat to fly” Saturday evening.”
Crime Is Down. Way Down. So Why Do People Feel Less Safe?
“Across the country, FBI data show that crime last year fell to lows unseen since the 1960s – part of a long trend that has seen crime fall steeply in the United States since the mid-1990s. At the same time, however, another change has taken place: a steady rise in the percentage of Americans who believe crime is getting worse.”