Tag: 07.16.21
Are Master’s Degrees An Educational Scam?
In some ways, they’re more similar than they might seem. Many of them are one-year certificate programs. We don’t call them that. We call them master’s...
Dance Choreography Can Make Humans More Comfortable With Robots
For instance, "areas of robotics research like social navigation, where robots update their paths to account for nearby humans’ movements, implicitly build upon dance improvisation."...
What’s Holding Back The Vinyl Revival?
Record Store Day 2 was Saturday, but between production issues and the pandemic (and Brexit, for Britain), vinyl isn't doing as well as it...
It’s Not Easy For ‘Diverse’ Actors To Find Good Agents
"They basically told me they would only sign me if I permanently flat-ironed my hair. ... I was like, ‘I’m Black, I can’t get...
Foundations Expand Focus On Long Neglected Disabled Artists
Disability Futures will have at least two more 20-person cohorts. Great, but "the feedback from the first class ... was frank: Do even better...
The American Booksellers Association Canceled Itself
The ABA took its Twitter private after promoting a scientifically inaccurate anti-trans book to indie bookstores, apologizing, and then deleting the apology. - LitHub
Perhaps In A Reaction To Quarantines And Lockdowns, New Movies Are Super Horny
Hot vax summer is real. (On the silver screen, anyway.) - Slate
The US Wants To Return A Statue Said To Have Been Stolen From Cambodia
U.S. prosecutors want to return "a 10th-century Khmer sandstone statue said to have been plundered more than 20 years ago from a temple." -...
Writing Songs Over Zoom For An Animated Series
Whew, this time has been weird. "It was a fun challenge, and also, it just hit differently because we were in lockdown living in...
What’s Getting People Back To The Cinema?
One Alamo Drafthouse audience member: "“I love movies and I have to be in the theater to see a movie. Like, to me, that’s...
The Ethics of Using AI To Fake Anthony Bourdain’s Voice In A Documentary
Another documentary filmmaker wonders, "Why borrow trouble, as my parents used to say, by re-creating Anthony Bourdain’s voice that way?" - Chicago Tribune
For A Culture Of Innovation You Need Arts Spaces
My research findings demonstrate how honing imagination and wonder is essential to creating cultures dedicated to innovative and responsible corporate practices demanded by a...
Brexit Has Made It A Nightmare For UK Bands To Tour Europe
“This is about whether one of the U.K.’s most successful industries, worth £111 billion a year, is allowed to prosper and contribute hugely to...