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Tag: 03.21.12
Who’s In Charge Of These Gizmos, Anyway?
“What were the good old days of technology? Have we increased the work day with our efficient smart phones? I ask this as my smart phone plays music and my tablet is open with Twitter streaming.”
Bookstores: More (Physically) Dangerous Than You’d Think
Time for a reality show set in a bookstore? What with distributor boxes, 5-year-olds moving chairs, random toys, tendonitis from reshelving books and the whole Hunger Games thing, bookstores aren’t exactly OSHA-approved.
Dreamy Offstage, Fierce On – A Principal Dancer For The Stuttgart Ballet
Myriam Simon: “As a teenager, I moved to a new neighbourhood and just walked into the nearby ballet school (as I understood later, it was the École Supérieure de Danse du Quebec!), without knowing anything about it. It was love at first sight: I auditioned for classes before I had even seen a ballet on stage, I had no idea – but they accepted me! When I took the very first steps in a ballet studio then, I knew: This was going to be my life.”
How The Traditional Publishing Model Harms Scientific Progress
“Eighty five percent of published papers remain locked behind subscription pay walls, accessible only to those affiliated with universities and other large research institutions. But new journals that make everything they publish freely available are growing rapidly. And government efforts to make the results of all publicly funded scientific and medical research accessible to everyone are expanding, despite industry-backed legislative efforts to end them.”
Report Cites Continued Problems For Workers At Abu Dhabi Cultural Site
“Conditions for migrant workers on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi – the site of future branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim museums – have improved, but problems continue, Human Rights Watch said in a progress report issued on Wednesday.”
Choreographer Wayne McGregor On How The Internet Is Changing Dance
“When I went to the Bolshoi ballet company in Moscow recently, a lot of the dancers there had learned one of my pieces from YouTube: they were really inspired by being able to see something that they had no access to in their own country. I’ve also just made a little five-minute piece for young people for the Big Dance festival. Over 300,000 young people from all over the country are learning it through the internet.”
‘The Original Frenemies’ – An Oral History Of Siskel And Ebert
“Given the types of people they were, they never would have chosen each other as friends.” “They would literally argue about everything – from the lineup of movies to the graphics to who would talk first.” “Roger now says, ‘We fought like cats and dogs, but we always loved each other.’ I think the real story is that they grew to like each other, but they always fought like cats and dogs.”
Dubai Announces Plans For Big Opera House And Museum
The plans for Dubai’s new cultural district include not only the opera house and modern art gallery, but two “art hotels”, leisure attractions, design studios and apartments.
Chomsky’s Theory Of Language Under Attack
Daniel Everett’s book “is an attempt to deliver, if not a fatal blow, then at least a solid right cross to Universal Grammar. He believes that the structure of language doesn’t spring from the mind but is instead largely formed by culture, and he points to the Amazonian tribe he studied for 30 years as evidence.”