Disney added 11.8 million Disney+ subscribers globally in the fiscal first quarter, topping the average analyst estimate of around 7 million, according to StreetAccount. - CNBC
"Tutankhamun represents an extremely narrow slice of Egyptian history; imagine if, in the year 4850, the world understood the United States largely through the Presidency of Millard Fillmore." - The New Yorker
While much of the current critique of AI is still framed by science fiction dystopias, the way it is being used now is increasingly dangerous. We now rely on machines to make decisions for us and thereby increasingly substitute data-driven calculations for human judgment. - MIT Sloan Review
The story of the index "is, on one level, a history of information science, but it's also a history of reading and writing and everything those actions entail — communication, learning and imagination, as well as competition, anxiety and no small amount of mischief." - The New York Times
The marble sculptures create both a physical barrier for the trawlers’ nets and a unique underwater museum, open to anyone either through arranged scuba diving tours or their own dive. - National Geographic
The rocker has sold "Every Breath You Take", "Roxanne", and the rest of his songs to Universal Music for a price believed to be up to $300 million. - The Guardian
"(There's) a growing number of historians who worry that Poland's ruling far-right government is trying to cover up the darker side of the country's past, including Polish complicity during the Holocaust, effectively silencing historians who veer from Poland's official narrative." - PRI's The World
By this point Dear Evan Hansen and In the Heights feel much farther away than West Side Story, Encanto, and Tick,Tick ... Boom!, but they all came out in 2021. And, writes Jackson McHenry, most of them came out better than had seemed the case a few months ago. - Vulture
Dancer and planetary science PhD student C. Adeene Denton: "Getting to set the first site-specific work on the International Space Station (was) a big pipe dream of mine … before I studied enough astronauts to realize that most of them beat me to it." - Dance Magazine
He has two more projects to finish for Steven Spielberg, and he says those will be his last movie scores. Not that he's retiring: he'll be doing more conducting in Europe and composing more concert works for the stars who love to perform them. - The New York Times
Anna Leporskaya's Three Figures (1932-34) was on loan from the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow to the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center in Ekaterinburg when a new guard decided that two of those three figures should have eyes. - The Guardian
The "TikTok tickets" scheme will offer £10 seats, along with subsidized travel to Stratford-upon-Avon, to people aged 14 to 25 for this summer's productions of Richard III and All's Well That Ends Well. - BBC
“Dune,” the sprawling first installment of Denis Villeneuve’s ambitious adaptation of the 1965 science fiction novel, was the only nominated film that could claim to be a classic box office success, having earned more than $100 million in bricks-and-mortar theaters. - Washington Post
Christopher Bedford, director of the Baltimore Museum of Art since 2016, has been named the new director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. - San Francisco Chronicle
These recent acts of illiberal language policing––coinciding with a racial reckoning on the left and a backlash against its excesses on the right––threatens to degrade the education of all young people. - The Atlantic
