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Netflix added 15.8 million subscribers, more than double the 7.2 million that were expected " a growth of more than 22 percent year over year. Netflix now has 182 million subscribers worldwi…
"How do we define community in a time of crisis, which is in many ways what community is for? We don't need our neighbors as much when we are healthy and wealthy and can pay for all the assi…
It's important to realise that the concern about beliefs being socially influenced is worrisome only if we're deliberating about whether to maintain belief from the perspective of doubt. " A…
Coffee is sold less to provide an individual with pleasure than to support an industry with a skillfully primed audience. " The New Yorker
One of the first things that struck Dvořák about Iowa was its emptiness. If he had come looking for the cheerfulness of home, what he found was this expanse of prairie, this sea of gr…
As experts in human-computer interaction point out, using Zoom means putting on a show for others without being able to rely on the cues we primates depend on in physical encounters. " Axios
EduHam was born as an offshoot of "Hamilton" itself, and Lin Manuel Miranda says the project " in which 250,000 students nationwide have participated " has proved to be a hit as much with ca…
ABT polled the dancers to find out how many would be interested. Then they placed a single order for 68 pieces, paid for it all and shipped them out to company members isolating everywhere f…
When it comes to live music streaming, and in particular, the capacity to play together real time over the internet, the technology could be said to be in a nascent state " still very much u…
People are consuming more news than usual. Monthly readership of NPR's website has more than doubled and average weekly streaming of its radio shows has gone up 31 percent since the crisis b…
The very features that make New York attractive to businesses, workers and tourists " Broadway, the subway system, world-class restaurants and innumerable cultural institutions " were among …
A quarter of the respondents, nine of 35, said they are facing the permanent closure of their spaces in 2020 if the situation doesn't improve quickly. An additional five galleries, or 14%, s…
The situation into which almost every parent in America has now suddenly and unwillingly been thrust could not be more different. One-size-fits-all education barely works in a classroom, but…
The Director of SCPA will serve as a central collaborator and consensus-builder inside and outside SCPA.
Now facing an immense shortfall in tax revenue"about $7.4 billion"the city has proposed a revised budget for the next fiscal year that would reduce the overall budget by $3.4 billion, compar…
The demonization of density harkens to the heyday of urbanization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. American civic leaders and reformers of the time embraced the notion that urban s…
Born into considerable wealth and privilege in New York, Beard, whose body was found yesterday in woodland in the East Hamptons, was a photographer whose love for the African wilderness and …
It's not entirely irrational behavior. And it can be explained. It's the product of several longterm trends that encourage hyper-skepticism. " Good Company
As Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi recently noted, both capitalism and celebrity rely on the "lie of meritocracy:" that working hard will lead to ultimate success. The grips of COVID-19, wit…
Museum director Eike Schmidt recalled that after the Arno River in Florence flooded in 1966 and shuttered the museum, the number of visitors to the Uffizi jumped from 1 million to 1.5 millio…
The latest analysis is computer-aided quantitative analysis of the texts. It's revelatory (in a way), and it adds something to our understanding. But it doesn't replace our previous close co…
Composers' letters can make frustrating reading. Beethoven's are brusque, practical affairs; Brahms hides behind a humour as impenetrable as his beard. But with Mozart, you get the whole per…
"On the one side is the human mind, the source of every story, theory and explanation that our species holds dear. On the other stand the machines, whose algorithms possess astonishing predi…
What's clear to everyone is that the much celebrated "independent bookstore renaissance," which coincided with the post"Great Recession economic expansion, is over. Hundreds of stores may ne…
For the last century, the advertising industry has been centered around this cardinal principle: Find the consumer's problem and fix it with your product. When the problem is practical and t…
