Tag: 06.23.21
Turns Out AI Can Be Pretty Easily Fooled By Patterns
The ability to succeed at the task can be thought of as a foundation for all kinds of inferences that humans make. - Quanta
What University Theatre Programs Need To Do For Their Students And Educators Of Color
There are issues: "Many educators of color find themselves entering or working at predominantly white institutions (PWIs) with little guidance on how to push...
The Impossibility Of Meaningful Work In Venice
"They perfectly embody the circumstance of generations of Italians stuck in precariato (‘precarious work’), unable to work year round, to start a family, to...
Saving Australia’s Literary Heritage Before It Goes Out Of Print And Gets Pulped
"This is the unfortunate fate of most books, even literary prize-winners. … something that Untapped: The Australian Literary Heritage Project is trying to...
Egyptian Farmer Discovers 2,600-Year-Old Monument To Pharaoh
The carved sandstone stele, measuring roughly 8½ feet long by 3½ wide, holds 15 lines of hieroglyphs topped by a winged sun disc and...
Why We Should All Love Epigraphs
Thomas Swick: "The epigraph page is like a ceremonial gate ushering us into the realm of the author with his or her beloved quotation...
Judith Farr, Poet And Emily Dickinson Scholar, Dead At 85
"A longtime professor at Georgetown University, published two seminal academic books examining the place of art and nature in Dickinson's poetry, The Passion...
AI And The Mystery Of Consciousness
The collective confusion around the arrival of virtual beings, the horror mingled with wonder, is apparent right from the start. - LitHub
Taking Stock Of The Destruction At Dobson Pipe Organ Builders
The factory — where the organs of Verizon Hall at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center, St. Thomas Fifth Avenue in New York, Merton College Chapel in...
Fury Over Choice Of Bosses For Pompidou Center’s Brussels Branch
A jury made up of museum professionals selected Kasia Redzisz, a senior curator at Tate Liverpool, to be artistic director of Kanal-Centre Pompidou, the...
Restrictions On Movie Content In China And Hong Kong Put Hollywood In Difficult Position
"As Hollywood faces a deteriorating relationship with China, it appears committed to keeping the flame alive even if that means going to humiliating lengths....
More Details About Pretty Yende’s Detention At CDG Airport (She Was Not Strip-Searched)
"Yende took to social media to share her experience, saying she was 'stripped and searched like a criminal offender' during the ordeal, which lasted...
NEA Expands Access To Millions In Pandemic Relief Funding
"The National Endowment for the Arts announced Wednesday that it will make $80 million in pandemic relief available to more arts and cultural organizations,...
Chief Of London’s Barbican Centre To Depart (Is This About The Racism Controversy?)
"Nicholas Kenyon, the Barbican's managing director for 14 years" — and, prior to that, controller of BBC Radio 3 and director of the BBC...
Summer UK Music Festivals Beginning To Cancel For Lack Of Insurance
A government-backed insurance scheme, or a lack of it, has become a make-or-break factor for festival organisers who are deciding whether to continue with...
After 25 Years Victoria Morgan Steps Down As Director Of Cincinnati Ballet
To right the organization's financial ship she had to make tough choices early on—the first task the company's executive committee gave her was to...