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Why Some Are Inclined To Be Seduced By Conspiracy Theories
In the face of complicated events, bewildering new technologies, and sometimes contradictory information, the explanatory power of some occult yet totalizing narrative easily overmasters...
Dramatic Stone Henge Discovery In Wales Suggests Irish History
Its diameter of 110m is identical to the ditch that encloses Stonehenge, and it is aligned on the midsummer solstice sunrise, just like the Wiltshire...
A Norwegian Book Festival Becomes 12 Global Festivals
"One of the things I wasn’t thinking about, but which is very obvious to me now, is the great value of having each festival...
Getting Behind The Real Tom Stoppard
Sir Tom occasionally shades into Saint Tom, thanks to a notably ample collection of friends who remark on his generosity and kindness. He remembers...
Pennsylvania Governor Proposes Zeroing Out Funds For Public TV
The state has issued $750,000 to seven stations annually since 2019. The funding, which is divided evenly among the stations, supports technology needs and...
Needed: A Philosophical Means Of Regarding Technology
We live in a technopoly, a society in which powerful technologies come to dominate the people they are supposed to serve, and reshape us...
Do We Have The Will To Stop Invention Of A Doomsday Device?
What we haven’t pulled out yet is a black ball: a technology that invariably destroys the civilisation that invents it. That’s not because we’ve...
Zoom – It’s A Song Lyric, It’s A Facilitator Of Romance…
As a nonsense word perfect for a doo-wop song. It's a video app that connects people and (sometimes) facilitates romance. - WBUR
Historic Weyerhaeuser Corporate Campus, Under Threat Of Development
The site, which the City of Federal Way annexed in 1994, has been lauded over the years for the pioneering way it intertwines building...
At Last Minute, Trump Made The Arts Commission Overseeing Capitol All-Male, All-White
"After Donald Trump made a flurry of hasty, last-minute appointments to the board that oversees the design of much of what is built in...
How The San Francisco Symphony Has Rebranded
The modern approach plays out in its new look, which patrons will see on everything from posters outside the box office to tickets to...
Criticism As Context
Understanding postcritique begins with understanding what has been the dominant mode of interpretation in literary studies for many decades: critique. Critique involves giving an...
Why Artificial Intelligence Will Never Write Compelling Novels
If computers could do literature, they could invent like Wells and Homer, taking over from sci-fi authors to engineer the next utopia-dystopia. And right...
LA’s Empty Museums
Los Angeles, where the coronavirus pandemic has been particularly severe, is the largest city in the nation whose museums have yet to reopen even...
#Queertheballet Explained
"Without visible exemplars, many queer women and non-binary people question their own place within the art form. “Growing up, I felt like I was...
Vancouver Art Museum Backs Down Its Major Expansion
Fundraising for the project has been at a virtual standstill for the past two years, since Vancouver’s Chan family, headed by Burrard International Holdings...
This Year’s Oscars: Brought To You From All Over
For several years in the 1950s, starting in 1952, Oscar night featured simultaneous gatherings in Los Angeles and New York. One can imagine something...
A More Diverse Oscars, Sure. But Look A Little Closer…
In a category that has historically overlooked female directors, this feels like progress. After all, only five women have ever been nominated for the...
More Monoliths. (Is This Irritating Yet?)
Even though it has a little more flair, I hope we can accept the Turkish monolith as a normal part of life in 2021....
Has Westernization In The Rest Of The World Been Over-Estimated?
The immense force of Western institutions – capitalism, democracy, Christianity – stamped itself on other parts of the globe, creating independent democratic nations committed...
Texas Theatre Finds Success With Digital Theatre
“We are thinking that we will have a slate of work with both digital and in-person opportunities. Because digital is not going away. We’re...
8-Year-Old Complains About NPR’s Lack Of Dinosaur Coverage
"My name is Leo and I am 8 years old. I listen to All Things Considered in the car with mom. I listen a...
Canadian Artists Debate Universal Basic Income
“If we artists had a basic income, that stress and fear over basic necessities would no longer weigh over our heads and we could...
Long Overdue: Breaking Gender Norms In Ballet
Christopher Rudd’s creation is the first romantic same-sex pas de deux in ABT’s history, and one of the first—if not the first—to celebrate queer...
When Keith Urban And Nicole Kidman Went To The Opera (The Police Were Called)
It started with a standing ovation. "At this point, allegedly, the gentleman swatted Academy award-winning Kidman with his program, prompting Urban to accuse the...