Do “all objects identified as accessioned museum specimens have to be kept in perpetuity, even when they have no discernible meaning? The problem is particularly acute in a university…, where objects are primarily used for teaching and research rather than public display.”
Tag: 10.21.09
Do Our Brains Create The Illusion Of Time Passing?
You know how sometimes you watch a wheel spin and parts of it appear to rotate backwards? And how frightening events can seem to happen in slow motion? It turns out that humans don’t perceive things continuously, but rather in a series (or several concurrent series) of snapshots, as happens with movies.
The Hollywood Treatment For 2008’s Georgia-Russia War
Director Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger) is in Tbilisi shooting a script about last year’s brief and nasty battle over South Ossetia. Andy Garcia is playing president Mikheil Saakashvili, whose government is enthusiastically supporting (and possibly funding) the project.
What’s The Character For Irony? Chinese Authors Accuse Google Of Copyright Violation
“The government-affiliated China Written Works Copyright Society … [says that Google Books is] illegally copying Chinese-language works for its digital library.” The group is “taking U.S. critics to task for protesting Chinese copyright violations while Google is copying works without prior authorization and posting them online.”
Abbey Theatre May Move To Birthplace Of Irish Republic
“The Abbey Theatre may be moved to the GPO building on Dublin’s O’Connell Street, site of the 1916 Rising that led to Irish independence. … [The] aim is to have a new national theatre in place by 2016, the centenary of the Rising.”
How To Hallucinate When You’re Out Of LSD
“You don’t need psychedelic drugs to start seeing colors and objects that aren’t really there. Just 15 minutes of near-total sensory deprivation can bring on hallucinations in many otherwise sane individuals.”
Mexican Intelligence Spied On Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
“The defunct DFS agency bugged the Nobel laureate’s phone and monitored his movements from 1967 after he moved to Mexico with his family. The authorities suspected the Colombian author of One Hundred Years of Solitude because of his leftist sympathies and friendship with Fidel Castro.”
Reinventing The Musical For A Chinese Audience
In Shanghai, director Meng Jinghui’s murder mystery is no mere Broadway translation. The show’s lyricist explains: “If you take Rent on stage in China, it doesn’t make sense. We don’t have bohemia, we don’t have so many drug users or gay people, and we don’t do threesomes.”
Stephen King Novel Latest In Trend Of Delayed E-Books
Stephen King’s next novel, “Under the Dome,” will be released as an e-book Dec. 24, “several weeks after the hardcover is published on Nov. 10. … [P]ublishers don’t want to risk cannibalizing hardcover sales,” and they want independent booksellers to be able “to sell as many copies of the hardcover edition as possible during the holiday season.”
New California Law Protects Child Actors
“For years, parents have complained to the L.A. city attorney’s office and the Better Business Bureau about the unscrupulous practices of talent listing services and acting schools that charge exorbitant upfront fees — sometimes as high as $9,000 — on the promise of finding acting jobs for their children on popular TV shows.”