Thanks, public domain! No, but truly, thank you for expiring, copyright. We now have everything from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to "all-time classic" 10 Things I Hate About You. - NPR
Why doesn't its history with a content provider who had zillions of subscribers - but was a favorite of the neo-Nazis - get the same blowback as other social media? (Transcript of this podcast here.) - Slate
Shelly Lowe, the first Native American chair of the NEH, wants to make some changes: "More small organizations that haven’t had NEH funding will be applying and will be announced as receiving grants. This will bring more attention to ... untold stories of our country." - Inside Higher Ed
The author of a new book argues that while math can give some pretty cool possibilities, the real-world evidence isn't there. She argues that "there are still plenty of cool ideas, including weather control, faster-than-light communication, and creating new universes, that don’t contradict known science." - Wired
Several lines of contemporary scholarship emphasize what might be gained by moving from a focus on science education to a focus on reciprocal power-sharing, cooperation, and exchange between researchers and citizens. - Boston Review
An avant-garde likes to present itself as insurgent and radical, yet the logic of the metaphor suggests that a new group will soon be coming along to replace it. Today’s avant-garde is always liable to congeal into tomorrow’s orthodoxy. - The Nation
It is not just in war and sport that luck plays such a great part. In our interconnected global economy, every business operates in a high-variable environment. This is not new. - Psyche
Quantum physics may just be the realisation that this ubiquitous relational structure of reality continues all the way down to the elementary physical level. Reality is not a collection of things, it’s a network of processes. - The Guardian
The question of what we can know of that which lies beyond the limits of our imagination is partially about the biological function of intelligence, and partially about our greatest cognitive prostheses, particularly human language and mathematics. - Aeon
Without public education delivered as a public good, the asylum seeker in detention, the teenager in jail, not to mention millions of children growing up in poverty, will have no realistic way to get the instruction they need to participate in democracy or support themselves. And students of privilege will stay confined in their bubbles. - The New York Times
From copying my music teacher to copying the great composers to mashing-up great recorded content to learning to ask AI to create – it’s all the same process. We are copying what already exists and trying our best to do it so others will consider it art – not craft. - Shelly Palmer
This question—why parents and taxpayers should support public schools that teach content that conflicts with their most cherished beliefs—has reverberated across the decades, sometimes registering only as a faint echo and sometimes, such as today, resounding at top volume. - The Point
That there is more than one way to interpret numbers might seem obvious, but is worth repeating at a time when, once again, historians claiming that they will emulate the supposedly ‘hard’ sciences are in a position to get huge grants and hire armies of assistants. - Aeon
Research shows that humans are born with an inherent sense of numbers, known as numerosity.5 The concept of numerosity is one of the only high-level cognitive functions that is mapped to a specific region of the brain. In other words, we are primed to do basic math, but culture gets in the way. - Nautilus
The universe is stranger than we can imagine, Albert Einstein is said to have said. Indeed, we should not even be sure there is a universe: we can see stars and nebulae and planets and whatever, but no one has ever seen a universe. - 3 Quarks Daily
