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The metropolis does not have a high profile in generally accepted narrative of jazz and other progressive music, although it should: Mexico City has a thriving community of skilled, sophisti…
When we talk about organizations, or other forms of collective action by groups of people, we often speak as if we have dominantly conscious control. But evidence from a range of disciplines…
Podcasts rich in detail and narrative are finding big audiences. But many of the stories they tell are misleading or inaccurate. How do we know? How do we vet? " Harper's
Status-mongering is the mess that results from leaving some of our ethical theorizing undone. We don't know who we think we are, and it shows. " The Point
Had Turing lived longer, perhaps the state of artificial intelligence would encompass more than drearily corporate banalities such as the Amazon checkout window making suggestions about what…
The announcement comes as the publicly funded BBC is facing intense political and public pressure amid a fast-changing media landscape and viewing habits. It has been criticized by both side…
Using metrics designed by evolutionary biologists, they compared the rates of cultural change to the rates of biological change for finches from the Galapagos Islands, two kinds of moths, an…
Studying how people move to music is a powerful tool for researchers looking to understand how and why music affects us the way it does. Over the last few years, researchers at the Centre fo…
Just a list, with no interpretation (look for that in another post). " Los Angeles Times
Just kidding about the Millennials. Sort of. The thing is, streaming has messed with everything related to the music industry " and now there's the elaborate rigging of streaming with "strea…
His management company announced the conductor's retirement from public performances. At the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, where he became Conductor Laureate last year, "Ashkenazy launched a th…
The Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa said that Saher Miahi's identity did not fit with guidelines from its funders, the Hecht Foundation. The university rescheduled the talk for elsew…
And actually, Jacqueline Woodson says, that's a good thing to know on a deep level, so that she doesn't only despair at lead poisoning in Flint or the rise of asthma after 9/11. "It's so imp…
Olney, 71 and regarded as "the founding father of Americana," was performing at a songwriters' festival in Florida when he suffered a fatal heart attack. "'He was very still, sitting upright…
Facial recognition tech is advanced and is everywhere from our phones to sports arenas to public spaces to, in China, everywhere. But it's far from perfect. "One such risk of the technology …
Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon created the movie The Big Sick, lightly based on their own lives and romance, and had such success that now they've won an Apple TV+ series, Little America, …
Normally terrific, WaPo book critic Ron Charles goes lightly on Amazon, whose CEO owns the paper. So it's time to consider some issues he missed. "E-books and audiobooks have greatly improve…
If the SAG Awards are any guide " and they can be " Parasite may win best picture; it won best ensemble at the ceremony on Sunday night. "When the Parasite cast, none of whom received ind…
Concordia Studio was founded two years ago by the multibillionaire widow of Steve Jobs and an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, and this is the year that money and expertise come onto the…
After a male CEO told women in music to "step up" if they wanted to win Grammys, the Recording Academy formed a blue-ribbon task force to reform the organization, hired a woman CEO last Augu…
Mr. Heath's saxophone sound was spare but playful, with a beaming tone that exuded both joy and command. But his reputation rested equally on his abilities as a composer and arranger for lar…
The group wanted to Klein Jasedow provides a nearly perfect test case for a theory, popular within the classical music industry, which postulates that if we could just tweak the atmosphere i…
By blurring out details from protest signs in an image of the 2017 Women's March, including the name of President Trump and references to the female anatomy " a decision the Archives publicl…
Re-reading Bloom, I am thunderstruck, because my inclination is to blame it all on social media and attendant technologies favoring vicarious experience. But Bloom's 1987 narrative establish…
"My colleagues want to better understand how people behave in the wild and how we can capture every-day behavior without asking people to self report … [because] that's a very unreliable w…
