The ultimate goal, in Dr. Ferrucci’s view, is that A.I. becomes a trusted “thought partner,” a skilled collaborator at work and at home, making suggestions and explaining them. - The New York Times
José Padilha, director of the Netflix series, alleges that producer Eric Newman "is concealing revenue — including money from audits of and bonuses from Gaumont Television. Under their profit sharing agreement, they agreed to an equal split of all revenue." - The Hollywood Reporter
Before there was an official policy, officials in individual districts could decide how to act on (or ignore) complaints about particular titles. Now districts must not only act on complaints, they must explain to legislators any decision to keep a book someone has complained about. - Axios
Ruling that it lacks jurisdiction, the federal District Court for Washington, DC accepted the motion to dismiss the suit by the German state foundation governing Berlin's museums, the defendant in a case brought by the heirs of Jewish art dealers who sold the medieval trove in 1935. - AP
Arguably the world's greatest living ballet choreographer, Ratmansky grew up in Kyiv, where his parents and sister still live, and has been very involved in relief efforts. Marina Harss visited The Hague to watch him rehearse the United Ukrainian Ballet Company in its first-ever production, Giselle. - The New York Times
Several hours after the pre-dawn Sunday attack, five children, aged 8 to 11, were caught throwing rocks at parked cars; they were arrested when found to have bicycles and other material stolen from Sculpture Space. They've been charged with burglary, larceny, criminal mischief, and possession of stolen property. - Hyperallergic
"I am still struggling with the consequences of the vasculitis I was diagnosed with in the spring," said the conductor in a statement. For this new Dmitri Tcherniakov staging at the Berlin State Opera, Barenboim will be replaced by Christian Thielemann for two cycles and Thomas Guggeis for one. - OperaWire
The three-body problem is the best metaphor I’ve found for a social complexity that affects us all today—a problem resulting from the interaction of three major centers of gravity. This dynamic is scrambling our intuitions and making us long for order in what feels like an increasingly chaotic world. - Wired
A piano has more than 8,000 individual parts. The building process begins with curing the wood, leaving large sheets of maple, beech and mahogany to dry for a year and a half. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
However it happened, it's clear those who stole a world-famous portrait of Sir Winston Churchill from the Château Laurier planned the heist meticulously. It took more than eight months for anyone to realize the photo hanging from the wood-panelled walls of the Reading Lounge was a fake. - CBC
Two months since the announcement of a “strategic partnership”—in which Imagine will “create scripted and non-scripted film and television properties derived from The Post’s vast archives, current reporting, and ongoing investigations,” and CAA will broker the deals—the arrangement is already bearing fruit, with four projects “actively in development." - Vanity Fair
We see others as crippled by ignorance and cowed by superstition; we don't see the extent to which we are, in our own ways, oppressed by our rationalism and lack of "superstition" (in a spiritual sense). - Salon
Given that the world we live in forces us to deal with pandemics, economic problems, wars and climate change it can seem overwhelming that we are supposed to be happy. It’s unrealistic to think we should always look at the bright side of events. - The Conversation
After our time training together in the '70s, Richard went on to join two of the finest ballet companies in the world at the time. He danced like a comet. And after that, astonishingly, he became a doctor. Ballet dancers, at that time, rarely went to college. You'd train about to age 18, then audition for a professional troupe...
Informed that the English village where he lived was considering ending mail delivery on Sundays, the great novelist wrote, basically, that if he couldn't receive his fan mail seven days a week, well, he just might have to sell his house and leave town. - BBC
