Right now, there is a generation of athletes who want to have a greater impact. They want to extend the movement to something bigger than charity backpack drives and sports camps. "There's a…
"What if the critic doesn't need more audacity, or more ruthlessness; what if there isn't one "tone of the time" waiting for their elucidation " indeed, what if nothing but mass popularity i…
The algorithm discouraged sharing of news. "While every subject group saw major reductions, on a percentage basis arts and entertainment referrals from Facebook to news pieces took the great…
Jesse Lavercombe: "I think Canada needs a new narrative for itself that isn't so much about buttressing a fortress or perfectly defining our national identity, but participating in a larger …
Today, many of the Staines' radical ideas " student-led teaching, community outreach, globally relevant ideologies and an emphasis on physical and mental health " are commonplace. And many o…
Although still a long way from restoring natural speech, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have generated intelligible sentences from the thoughts of people without…
Earlier this month, the country's government introduced a draft of the Protection From Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act. It would authorize any minister in Singapore to order "correcti…
The tech is now so good, it can impersonate voices you know. "The main takeaway is that human brains may not be able to distinguish a speaker's voice from its morphed version, which means th…
The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech is searching for an experienced Director of Marketing and Communication to supervise in-house marketing planning, public relations, creative, and patron…
They're the fastest-growing segment of the books industry, a real success for an industry that has struggled to reinvent. Learn while you're doing something else. That's what successful peop…
This "masculinist logic" infected the classroom. Criticism had always been central to the Workshop experience, and it was harsh by design. Engle believed "that young writers overestimated th…
"Our very attempts to stave off disaster by introducing safety systems ultimately increases the overall complexity of the systems, ensuring that some unpredictable outcome will rear its ugly…
Looking at Amherst College's new Common Language Guide: What the glossary contains is not "common" language by any normal reckoning. Its very first entry defines "accomplice" as "a term coin…
"Unlike many previous studies, we are able to investigate differences between bullshitters and non-bullshitters conditional upon a range of potential confounding characteristics (including a…
The photographers used Cinema Treasures, a database of American movie theaters past and present, to track down some of the country's most spectacular movie palaces. At first they focused …
In 2018, about 4 in 10 people said they experienced a lot of worry the day before the interview, while a third said they were stressed and nearly 3 in 10 said they felt a lot of physical pai…
It may seem silly to lament over music selections in an exercise class, but it's an issue that fitness companies may increasingly face as they transform from traditional health companies int…
In a first for Canadian mainstage theatre, the 15-member acting ensemble of Josette Bushell-Mingo's innovative bilingual production, an offshoot of the Citadel/Banff Professional Program, is…
They found that people whose parents "had the most privileged occupations", such as doctors, lawyers and senior management posts, "were over four times more times more likely to be working a…
The decision came after the Louvre's visitor numbers surpassed "the symbolic threshold" of 10 million last year, which equates to 25,000 to 50,000 a day. At the Louvre's most-popular …
These new streamers will be desperate for content, and will yank their own shows off Netflix. So "when do we reach peak streaming? How many services can the average viewer reasonably adopt? …
"None of us want to see that jewel tarnished. After speaking with both parties, it appears that we should be able to achieve an end to this seven-week strike. Therefore, I am offering the se…
The Office of Arts + Cultural Programming (ACP) through its PEAK Performances series provides a place for important artists to create and perform innovative works. ACP is seeking a full time…
The Executive Director will guide the realization of Pioneer Works' long-term vision to build a cultural campus with satellite operations by overseeing the organization's development, financ…
The song is thought to have been written by African-American slaves in about 1800, inspired by the story of Jewish slaves in the Bible. So a double cultural appropriation? " WBUR