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Enter the international Apostrophe Protection Society, with its attempts to call out misuse and spread good practice. But November 2019 saw the announcement of the society's demise, and owin…
Enter the international Apostrophe Protection Society, with its attempts to call out misuse and spread good practice. But November 2019 saw the announcement of the society's demise, and owin…
Although the private sector brought electricity to the big cities"New York, Chicago, St. Louis"the federal government's Rural Electrification Administration brought electricity to much of Am…
Some critics argue that a novel has to also be one narrative through and through, one long story about one person. A lot of ancient fiction, arguably, is too distractible and prone to side s…
"I always tried to make the answer at least semi-coherent because it seemed a bit cheap to just toss a bunch of keywords into the input field," Paradiso said. "But if I was a bit lazier, I e…
Arts Reach New Ways Forward " a comprehensive package of breakthrough strategies to help you navigate uncertain times and be fully prepared for the future opportunities that await -- is help…
Beyond navigating COVID-19, Ms. Jaffe has big ideas for PBT and its growing school. She wants more diversity in choreography, more collaborations with museums and other institutions and some…
Loving monsters is a love of chaos, a longing to dance a little with death to better understand the danger. Cryptid violence is more approachable than human violence. It's easy to ponder way…
White people and some ethnic groups follow a progression of youth orchestras and schools of the arts and then are often paired with principal musicians in local professional orchestras. Mean…
Ahead of the event guests have been sent a list of Covid-19 guidelines, including information on passing through thermo-scanners as they enter the festival and anyone found to have a body te…
By 2030, if only the 5 largest foundations spent down the entirety of their assets, approximately $73 billion would flow directly to large-scale issues that require only cash to be truly sol…
Imagine instead that we worked with idea that creativity wasn't about novelty. That doesn't mean we'd have to give up the value of originality entirely, but rather see it as one of a range o…
All the fans were volunteers, part of Restart-19, a study to see if and how big cultural and sporting events can be held safely in the era of COVID-19. The daylong experiment was set up by s…
All three are collaborating or consulting on major projects in China with development firms owned by the state. They say that sharing their collections and expertise in this way "can help to…
Over the last few months, it has been interesting to watch how theatre navigates what, in many cases, is largely new territory: digital space. What began as a free-for-all, with organisation…
Lanier finds many things fundamental to living in a society hard, like adhering to concepts relating to time, or receiving or sending mail; one ride in his amusement park brain is "a hamster…
Currently celebrating its 15th year as an internationally recognized art house film center, Film Streams was established as a nonprofit in 2005 and has grown to an operation of two venues th…
"The global pandemic made it difficult to sit exams safely, so a solution needed to be devised. By looking at a combination of teacher's predictions, past individual performance, and past sc…
Most nonfiction books are not fact checked; if they are, it is at the author's expense. Publishers have said for years that it would be cost-prohibitive for them to provide fact checking for…
"How do singers such as Betty Carter take command of the present moment, seemingly bending reality to their will? While more romantic notions of creativity might point to Carter, and others …
"Multiply your age by 0.9. If you're forty, you've spent thirty-six of your years indoors. About a third of that is time spent sleeping, but still. Most humans who live in the United States …
Australian regulators say the tech giants benefit from publishing news generated by others, but Google and Facebook are so dominant in search and social, respectively, that publishers can't …
The Shakespeare system is not simply Shakespeare's written work, but the complex and oppressive role his work, legacy, and positionality hold in our contemporary society. Feeling defensive y…
The new rules were evident inside the Met, where staff have installed an elaborate routing system designed to shuffle visitors from room to room without much crossover. Entrance into the Egy…
Voice recognition, like that used by Apple's Siri or Amazon's Alexa, is a step toward more seamless integration of human and machine. The next step, one that scientists around the world are …
"What Alexander Neef failed to do spectacularly is build an audience. It is a failure that one might attribute to the vagaries of the economy, the advent of livestreaming, the price of parki…