"Even statistical decision theorists do not make serious choices by consulting cold, textbook models. Like the rest of us, they resort to a knottier combination of deliberation, gut feel and…
With its promises of assisting everyone with anything and everything, the mistake of the mindfulness movement is to present its impersonal mode of awareness as a superior or universally usef…
For the next three years, the team from la Société des arts technologiques will spend a week each year recording OSM rehearsals and concerts to create immersive acoustic projects. "For sur…
"While prejudice and disadvantage persist in 'the real world,' in the literary world we BAME writers (that's Black and Minority Ethnic folk) are insulated by liberals falling over themselves…
A former education secretary, Nicky Morgan came under fire from the arts sector in 2015 when she claimed that young people choosing to study creative subjects at school could "hold them back…
Weeks after Los Angeles officials gave the green light for a new development on the Hollywood site now occupied by Amoeba Music, critics are suing the city to stop it, arguing that it would …
"Part of me wonders if audiences aren't giving these movies a pass because, like everything else, our comedies have gotten wrapped up in the interminable culture war." " Washington Post
"The way we interact with music is very much in line with developing empathy, and how we put ourselves in the shoes of the musician. Our brains mirror what we're seeing. So when we're in syn…
Every classical musician who is not from a musical background has a different story of how their interest in the art was sparked. But for most of them, their early forays into music were baf…
Sixty-seven years is a good run for anything, but, when Mad confirmed that it was joining National Lampoon and Life and Spy in the magazine graveyard, and the Elysian Fields of online archiv…
According to one just-released study, original residents gain more from gentrification than the traditional neighborhood narrative lets on. And the harms of gentrification, while hard to ful…
Mr. Lang " who long maintained that his greatest fear was an injury that would leave him unable to play the piano, and therefore, as he once put it, "render me useless for life" " spent his …
Clearly the museum is attempting an unusual feat: Tearing itself apart in plain view, but hiding the mess. " Philadelphia Inquirer
The study, from the University of Bath, shows young people for poor backgrounds are faced with cost barriers, access difficulties and a fear they won't fit in. " Classic FM
"This research shows that while canned laughter does elevate the humour of a comedy, adding real laughter would get a better response." " BBC
Tianxu An, the Curtis Institute of Music student, just 20, was ready to play the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in June. When conduct…
The historian Henry Adams was being metaphorical, not medical, when he described power as "a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies." But that's not far from where Dacher…
The number of Americans singing has increased over the past decade, with more than 54 million adults and children participating in choral groups today . More than one in six Americans over t…
There's a reason the film industry doesn't measure the success of modern movies against those of the past " movie ticket inflation isn't an exact science. There are so many factors behind wh…
Although Audible said Captions was "designed primarily to fill an unmet need in education" by allowing students listening to a book to engage more fully with the work, publishers feel the in…
"I built this model to investigate whether nonprofits are, as they claim, more literary than conglomerates. The results allow me to extend recent computational studies into literariness and …
Over time, arguments and judgments about what constitutes ugliness in architecture " whether it be incompleteness, incongruity or incorrectness " have leached out beyond the profession. Stag…
According to a new study by New American Economy, immigrants and their children have founded 45% of the Fortune 500 companies in the United States, generating $6.1 trillion in annual reve…
Because most machine-learning models cannot offer reasons for their ongoing judgments, there is no way to tell when they've misfired if one doesn't already have an independent judgment about…
That math is an art, that one of its signature qualities is its beauty"these are ideas that continue to be articulated by mathematicians, even as non-mathematicians may wonder what that coul…