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The only previous films to win five straight weekends in the past 20 years are 2009's "Avatar" and 1999's "The Sixth Sense." "Titanic," from 1997, holds the record, which seems unbreakable i…
At first glance, the evidence isn't encouraging. Following a loss, fans are more likely than usual to eat unhealthy food, [1] be unproductive at work, [2] and"in the case of the …
The impact of cultural work is complex: it imparts insights, experience and attitudes that do not necessarily have to culminate in a 'work', but may create new networks, creative ideas, and …
After the Second World War, alienation came to betoken a near-universal spiritual and psychological malaise. Existentialist philosophers such as Jean-Paul Sartre used it to describe a fundam…
The goad for this stunningly resolute strike was deep cuts to retirement pensions, but as in all such vast, spontaneous outpourings from below, the issue is not the issue. The issue, rather,…
Behind the scenes, according to several sources close to the museum who were interviewed by artnet News, Molesworth's personal priorities, progressive politics, and constitutional aversion t…
The belief that humans are perfectible leads, inevitably, to mistakes when 'a perfect society' is designed for an imperfect species. There is no best way to live because there is so much var…
While The Man in the High Castle, for instance, had one of the lowest costs per first stream after its first season, $63, that number jumped up to a whopping $829 following the production…
"So there I was, 26 years old (but looking 16), running a jazz department for one of the world's largest record stores. The perks were manna from music heaven: I picked the music played in m…
Dreams differ not only across a single lifetime or a single night, they also differ dramatically across historical epochs. The dreams of the ancient Greeks and Romans, and indeed the dreams …
The strange thing is that these moments of love and loss are not the place where language finds its truest expression of meaning but are in fact the place where meaning itself starts to brea…
Amazon execs, Reuters says, believe the first series you watch after signing up deserves the credit for luring you to Prime (whether you liked the show or not apparently doesn't matter, nor …
Saul Bellow never followed his Québec into the contemporary world. Before Alice Munro won in 2013, he was the only Nobel Prize recipient in literature to have been born in Canada. Yet besid…
"As dancers, we grow up in studios surrounded by people with similar abilities. We take for granted these incredible skills that we've spent years perfecting because everybody around us can …
While dealers say the majority of sales are still consummated in person, often in the framework of long-term relationships, the seeds of those relationships are increasingly being sown onlin…
Founded 150 years ago and now in its fourth location within Baltimore, A.T. Jones is believed to be the oldest continually running costume shop in the country, and it's as storied as the pla…
Some observers see Molesworth's ouster as symptomatic of a struggle between her progressive ideals and the status quo, epitomized by Vergne who curated three shows of white male artists "…
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Some people have denied the existence of consciousness: conscious experience, the subjective character of experience, the "what-it-is-like" of experience. Next to this denial"I'll call it "t…
"We see quite clearly that students' personalities change when they go to university," Sonja Kassenboehmer of Monash University, the paper's lead author, said in announcing the finding…
Francois Prost's photograph of the Eiffel Tower looks like it was taken on any given day in Paris. But just outside the frame are clues that the structure in his picture is nowhere near the …
iHeart, formerly known as Clear Channel, is the nation's largest radio company, with more than 850 stations. It also owns iHeartRadio's music streaming service, a large concert business, and…
What is your justification in believing that 2 + 2 = 4? You are justified because you understand the concepts involved. You understand what all the terms in that simple sum mean and that, as…
The project, to be announced Wednesday by Colburn President and CEO Sel Kardan, also includes a 700-seat studio theater for dance and vocal performance, a 100-seat theater for smaller-scale …
We are experiencing a fundamental paradigm shift in our relationship to knowledge. From the 'information age', we are moving towards the 'reputation age', in which information will have valu…
