Why We Should End Tourism. But We Won't
A 2018 study published in the journal Nature Climate Change announced tourism alone"that's nonessential pleasure travel"is responsible for 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. The t…
A 2018 study published in the journal Nature Climate Change announced tourism alone"that's nonessential pleasure travel"is responsible for 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. The t…
The strategy lists four principles guiding whether ACE will invest public money: "ambition and quality", "inclusivity and relevance", "dynamism", and "environmental responsibility". The ACE …
GPT-2's writing is grammatically correct. It all more or less sounds true to its source, if all you heard was the tone. But what those sequences mean, therein lies the rub. GPT-2's poetry pr…
On this midsummer morning, 40 thinkers and activists have come together to challenge the core economic orthodoxy of our time: that growth is the most critical measure of human flourishing, a…
The controversy has spurred long-standing debates about where stories come from, who is responsible for them and what it means as a writer to bear witness to truth " and also, which persons …
"Just because students are in an advanced technique level doesn't mean they'll feel confident moving without set steps." To get students to explore outside their comfort zones, Alisia Pobega…
The heart of the problem is the industry " the critics, agents, publicists, book dealers who were responsible for this project. They've shown just how little they know about the immigrant ex…
The idea is that these kinds of AI interactions scale in a way that actual humans do not, and while that may seem ominous for the future of real human connections, from the AI Foundation's p…
The largest potential casualty of the closings is the Hong Kong Arts Festival, which is scheduled to open on February 8 with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta's world premiere of Alexander Goehr's T…
Drexel University seeks a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and strategic leader to serve as Dean of the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design (Westphal College).
The digitized collection includes 8,288 black-and-white negatives, 2,106 color slides and transparencies, and 339 black-and-white prints depicting the repertory of Alvin Ailey, choreographer…
Some arrived in full character for the event, where attendees can meet and take photos with the stars of their favorite shows. Passes range from $80 for one day to $1,000 for a full weekend …
The clumsy, ill-conceived rollout of "American Dirt" illustrates how broken the system is, how myopic it is to hype one book at the expense of others and how unethical it is to allow a gatek…
The Gibney Company General Manager will be responsible for the administrative direction of every aspect of the Company.
The President and CEO will be a dynamic, flexible, and forward-thinking leader and administrator with an exceptional work ethic, passion for the performing arts, and solid experience in ma…
At CES 2020, Samsung introduced Neon, an AI-based companion that is being developed to be indistinguishable from a human companion. AI models are composing at a pretty high level right now. …
This new MOMA is exhausting"and serene, and thrilling, and, finally, to a degree that only the greatest museums achieve, transcendental. Wandering the vast new spaces, tracing the familiar c…
More independent bookstores, sales up, even new plans for Barnes & Noble. But there are looming problems. Big problems with today's publishing industry. " N+One
Dancers and musicians have been striking alongside public sector workers to oppose the government's plan to scrap more than 40 separate pension schemes and replace them with a single points-…
For music fans, tracking such a harrowing volley of allegations and denials feels equal parts absurd and sad (especially arriving, as it has, in the midst of a Presidential impeachment trial…
Long one of the stingiest states in terms of support for the arts, Georgia is now virtually at rock bottom, not willing even to put up enough money to collect the full amount of matching fun…
Artistic director Whitley, who has worked with the Royal Ballet and performing arts company Saddler's Wells, suggests there are "a lot of assumptions" that go with words like grime and balle…
In the face of critiques, Jeanine Cummins is pushing back in public. Her publisher released a statement encouraging discussion around the title, while some authors and booksellers have come …
"The 'Brexit' 50p coin is missing an Oxford comma, and should be boycotted by all literate people," wrote the novelist Philip Pullman on Twitter, while Times Literary Supplement editor Stig …
The striking resemblance left many critics as stunned as though they had been zapped by Captain Kirk's phaser. But others online insisted the logo was really based on the US Air Force One. "…