Educationist Sir Kenneth Robinson, 70
He told the audience at TED in 2006: "I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new concept of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our conception of the richness …
He told the audience at TED in 2006: "I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new concept of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our conception of the richness …
Alongside Gaelic, Scots is one of the indigenous languages of Scotland. The thousands of Wikipedia entries written in it make up one of the largest collections of the Scots language yo…
If your children are in secondary school and are not writing essays, they are being swindled of their chance to do well in college. If you are a college student who is rarely required to sub…
Zoom fatigue is the feeling of utter hopelessness after your ninth video call of the day, and experts say it's brought on because the technology overtaxes your brain. Presented with a croppe…
In sum, lockdown has been positive for knowledge worker productivity in the short term. But it has also created some concerns and challenges around longer-term effectiveness, creativity, and…
The theater in Stratford, Connecticut, modeled on Shakespeare's Globe theater in London, burned down in January 2019 as the result of arson. The theater building had not hosted an indoor per…
Syria's architectural legacy has been a well-known victim and propaganda tool of the civil war. Islamic State famously took pleasure in detonating the temples and tower-tombs of Palmyra, wit…
For 15 years, Knoedler had procured and sold at least 40 fraudulent paintings " an astounding $60m of forged work attributed to such modern American masters as Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock a…
There are few answers about this disease. But the choral community has come together to figure out how 54 million people in America who sing in a chorus can do so safely. Choral leaders have…
These days, book covers are all about nature; they're festooned with flowers, swirling with birds and littered with leaves. Those aren't the only trends we've noticed, however. Here's a look…
The city is indeed at a moment of reckoning"not simply because of the pandemic, but because of what it had already become. After the fiscal crisis of 1975, New York and its economy were rest…
The International Festival of Arts & Ideas (Festival) celebrates and builds community, engages with vital issues, and promotes the arts.
A little over a year into my tenure at The Chronicle, I'd been initiated. For journalists, receiving an angry handwritten letter about usage from Quentin Kopp is a rite of passage, badge of …
How realistic is it for writers to get rich from selling adaptation rights? "It's just not," says Joanna Nadin, whose YA novel Joe All Alone was adapted into a Bafta-winning 2018 television …
Festivals can serve as coronations, bestowing status or, even better, controversy. (Almost inevitably, "Joker" took home Venice's top prize, the Golden Lion.) More valuably, they can channel…
"For the past several months, I've really only heard applause in small, sporadic outbreaks, and it's only hitting me lately how much I miss the stuff." " Washington Post
" Twenty volunteer musicians, all Black and Latinx string players from in and around Milwaukee, make up the Black String Triage Ensemble. When a tragedy occurs, they bring their instruments …
Previous research on universal facial expressions has centered largely on similar responses by people from different modern communities. These studies seems to suggest that individuals acros…
"For too long, we have watched the detrimental impact of Amazon's business on our communities and the independent bookselling world," Powell wrote. "We understand that in many communities, A…
As high-profile titles like Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epic "Tenet" and "The New Mutants" gear up to hit the big screen, marking the first major films to open since theaters were forced to c…
TV needs the movies. But as the pandemic has forced the closure of countless movie theaters, new questions have surfaced about how much the movies will need TV. " Variety
For three years, 120 people are to receive 1,200 euros per month, and throughout the study period, they will be closely observed and frequently interviewed, as will the 1,380 members of the …
The Prison Music Project, which is a political and creative effort, is focused on centering the voices [and] stories of people who get entangled in the justice system, people who experience …
"The group allegedly circumvented copyright protections on nearly every movie released by major production studios, as well as television shows, and distributed them by way of a worldwide ne…
As many as 40 local television outlets and 200 Canadian radio stations could be forced to close in the next three years as the financial pressures faced by media companies intensify under th…