While PBS has offered on-demand streaming for a number of years, it will stream programming live on YouTube TV. “Based on their markets, 333 member stations will be available to users.” – Ars Technica
Tag: 07.29.19
The Very First Motion Pictures Were Grainy And Too Fast, Right? Not At All
“Rather, viewed in their original form on large screens and prior to decades of degradation, these movies were vivid and realistic. In particular, early 68mm film, which was less practical than 35mm film and thus used less frequently, delivered startlingly lifelike impressions of distant realities to early moviegoers.” (video) – Aeon
What Happens When What You See Gets In The Way Of What You Know?
Most philosophers nowadays think that knowledge is fallible. In other words, they think that you can know something without its being certain for you. – 3 Quarks Daily
Netflix, Losing US Subscribers, Places A Big Bet On India
As the streaming giant reported the loss of 126,000 American customers, it “also announced a cheaper, mobile-only subscription plan in India. At 199 rupees ($2.80; £2.20) a month, it’s priced to make inroads into a country, which chief executive Reed Hastings has half-seriously suggested could be the source of Netflix’s ‘next 100 million’ subscribers.” – BBC
Architect Proposes Translucent Temporary Space For Notre Dame During Rebuilding
“Pavillon Notre-Dame would replicate the exact dimensions of the nave of the cathedral so that it feels familiar. The roof would be made from Ethylene Tetra Fluoro Ethylene (EFTEC) cushions, a lightweight plastic membrane, and the walls from translucent polycarbonate panels.” – dezeen
The Invention Of Money Changed Everything About How The World Works
“Paper money, backed by the authority of the state, was an astonishing innovation, one that reshaped the world. That’s hard to remember: we grow used to the ways we pay our bills and are paid for our work, to the dance of numbers in our bank balances and credit-card statements. It’s only at moments when the system buckles that we start to wonder why these things are worth what they seem to be worth.” – The New Yorker
PT Barnum, The Great Con (And He Considered Running For President)
Barnum’s peculiar gift lay in his relationship to his audience. Better than anyone who’d come before, the Prince of Humbugs understood that the public was willing—even eager—to be conned, provided there was enough entertainment to be had in the process. – The New Yorker
What If Time Really Doesn’t Have A Direction?
We think that the way things are now depends on how they were in the past, but not on how they are in the future; we think of the laws of nature as telling the Universe how to evolve from earlier to later, and not later to earlier. And so on. – Aeon
Is It Time For Marin Alsop To Speak Up In Baltimore Symphony Plight? (And Would It Help?)
True, music directors don’t usually get involved in labor disputes. Also true is the severity of the money crisis, and the unlikeliness of Alsop being able to help with that. But Baltimore music critic Tim Smith writes that if anyone has the stature and the right to say enough is enough, it’s Alsop. – Tim Smith
How Far Ahead Of Her Time Was Ida Lupino? This Far
“In between Not Wanted [about unwed mothers] and Outrage [about a rape victim], Lupino had directed Never Fear, a movie depicting people surviving polio, which Lupino had contracted herself in the 1930s. If I told you even one of those movies had been made in the late ’40s or early ’50s you would probably be doubtful. That one woman was instrumental in bringing all three into existence is an astounding achievement.” – 3 Quarks Daily