Matt Zoller Seitz: ” It could let us experience movie storytelling – and movies, period – in a new way. It might even give rise to a new art form, one that’s related to its ancestor, cinema, but that takes off in new directions and does things we can’t even imagine yet.”
Tag: 08.10.10
Recreating Salvador Dali’s Hometown – On the South China Sea
“A Chinese developer has decided to build a replica of the town half-way across the globe in Xiamen Bay, where mainland China looks out towards Taiwan. Architects from developers China Merchants Zhangzhou visited Cadaqués in June, taking measurements [and] photographing buildings.”
Neuroscience May Explain Religious Belief But Can’t Explain It Away
“We understand in great detail the interrelated functioning of receptors in the tongue, the neurons that carry the signals, and the centers in the brain that receive the information. But explaining taste has not rendered it obsolete. No one has responded to these discoveries by giving up on delicious food.”
Moscow’s Constructivist Buildings Are Crumbling
“Any sightseers embarking on a tour of Moscow’s avant-garde architecture from the early 20th century had better brace themselves for a catalogue of degradation.” Can anyone save them from rampant Russian capitalism? The new oligarchs’ wives might.
Roanoke’s Arts Center Struggles to Find Its Role
“Since its rebirth after a $4.8 million renovation, the Dumas Center has been losing money. And the two arts organizations that were its main tenants, the opera and the music lab, have left, replaced by two non-arts-related groups: Accunet Information Group and the Virginia CARES program.”
Americans Are WEIRD, and the Rest of the World Doesn’t Think Like Us
“Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic societies. Our findings suggest that members of WEIRD societies are among the least representative populations one could find for generalizing about humans.”
Must One Be Ugly to Be a Great Philosopher?
Jean-Paul Sartre, very aware of his own unprepossessing visage, “seems to be suggesting that thinking – serious, sustained questioning – arises out of, or perhaps with, a consciousness of one’s own ugliness.” So does Socrates.
Fox Has Oldest Audience
“Who has the most watched news network in all the land? Fox News! And who has the oldest audience in all of cable? Fox News!”
Study: Online Tools Don’t Necessarily Build Smarter Student
“The research, published in The Journal of Educational Psychology, found that students tend to study on computers as they would with traditional texts: They mindlessly over-copy long passages verbatim, take incomplete or linear notes, build lengthy outlines that make it difficult to connect related information, and rely on memory drills like re-reading text or recopying notes.”
Google And Verizon Give You: The Schminternet (So Much For Net Neutrality)
“As I see it, the agreement makes two huge carve-outs to neutrality and regulation of the internet: mobile and anything new. So ol, grandpa internet may chug along giving us YouTube videos of flaming cats, but you want to get that while you’re out of your house? Well, that’s the nonnet.”