Mankind, whether working alone or in groups, is governed by a mathematical tipping point, one specified by a ratio of 2.9013 positive to 1 negative emotions. When the tipping point is crested, a kind of positive emotional chaos ensues–“that flapping of the butterfly’s wing”–resulting in human “flourishing.”
Tag: 10.17.13
Ireland Cuts Arts Budget Yet Again, This Time By 7%
The government’s announced budget for 2014 marks the sixth consecutive year of reductions in arts spending, which has fallen by one-third since 2008.
Research Upends Standard Notions Of Inherited Intelligence
“One of the longest standing assumptions about the nature of human intelligence” – in particular, “fluid” intelligence versus “crystallized” intelligence – “has just been seriously challenged.”
There Is Now Culture In Beverly Hills: A New Performing Arts Center
The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, which held a grand opening gala last week, consists of two adjoining buildings on a corner of Santa Monica Boulevard: the old WPA-era Beverly Hills Post Office, now renovated, and the new 500-seat Bram Goldsmith Theater.”
“Discomfort Is A Very Underrated Feeling”: Julia Louis-Dreyfus
“Triumph is great because where do you go from there? Down. That’s good for comedy.”
After Many Years, The Sheep Are Leaving The Stage
“The play about Ozark life staged every year since 1960 is described as a drama, love story, and mystery mixed with some comedy and religion. Its sprawling cast includes dozens of actors and actresses, 30 horses, five mules, and a flock of sheep.”
Call It ‘Self’ Publishing If You Want; It Still Takes A Village
“Authors create product, which is story (not book), and readers consume product through a variety of mediums. Everyone else is in between. Authors need people of value in between in order to get story to reader.”
Why Libraries Are Essential To Our Culture
“There were noises made briefly, a few years ago, about the idea that we were living in a post-literate world, in which the ability to make sense out of written words was somehow redundant, but those days are gone: words are more important than they ever were: we navigate the world with words, and as the world slips onto the web, we need to follow, to communicate and to comprehend what we are reading.”
Pianist Anton Kuerti Rushed To Hospital Following Neurological Incident Onstage
Near the end of the first work in an all-Beethoven recital in metro Miami, the 75-year-old Canadian began playing the same phrase over and over. Kuerti stopped and started repeatedly during the second piece, appearing progressively more disoriented, until an audience member coaxed him from the stage and an ambulance was called.
Riccardo Chailly To Be La Scala’s Next Music Director
“No official announcement has been made yet but the La Scala board has decided. … The appointment should take effect from January 2017. That ‘should’ is necessary because Chailly may take up the post before then if Daniel Barenboim steps down before his contract expires at the end of 2016.”