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• Music Teacher Makes Interactive Map Of 500 Forgotten Women Composers

  19-08-2021 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
   “We’ve never given them the place they deserve in history. They don’t appear in musical history books, their works aren’t played at concerts and their music isn’t recorded.” – The Guardian
  
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• How International Students Are Propping Up Higher Education

  19-08-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  International students the product of a system that has blurred the lines between immigration and education in an unofficial, ad hoc arrangement meant to appeal to potential immigrants while avoiding any responsibility for their settlement. – The Walrus
  
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• What Do Students Need To Know?

  19-08-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The anodyne blandness of the term “general education” should not distract us from its critical place in the curriculum. General education forces a question that most institutions today would probably rather avoid: What should all students learn? – The Point
  
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• Ravinia Recreates Leonard Bernstein In An Immersive Experience

  19-08-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What sticks, at least on a first viewing, is the technology at play—the light, the sound, the figures that look real enough to embrace. – Chicago Reader
  
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• A Cultural History Of Color

  19-08-2021 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Optical Society of America lists 2,755 primary colours, while paint manufacturers now offer more than 40,000 dyes and pigments, so many, says Fox, that they have run out of sensible names for them. – Literary Review
  
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• The Five Native American Oklahoma Women Who Conquered Ballet

  19-08-2021 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  They became known collectively as The Five Moons, though they rarely appeared together: Maria and Marjorie Tallchief, Yvonne Chouteau, Rosella Hightower, and Moscelyne Larkin all came from Oklahoma reservations and, through the mid-20th century, had major careers in the US and Europe. – The New York Times
  
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• What The Cuttlefish Might Teach Us About The Ability To Remember

  19-08-2021 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Most elderly people would have flunked a human version of the team’s experiments. But all of the cuttlefish passed, “an incredibly complex thing for an animal to do.” – The Atlantic
  
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• The Case Of The Dresden Jewel Heist And The Fearsome Berlin Crime Family

  19-08-2021 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Joshua Hammer (author of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu) does a deep-dive into the royal gems stolen from the famous Green Vault, the Remmo clan accused of being the perps, and the likely (and worrisome) fate of the treasure. – GQ
  
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• What’s In A Name? Why Parents Are No Longer Naming Their Kids Alexa

  19-08-2021 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Seven years ago, Amazon released Alexa, its voice assistant, and as the number of devices answering to that name has skyrocketed, its popularity with American parents has plummeted. – The Atlantic
  
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• A Leader Of Afghan Music’s Revival On Whether 20 Years Of Progress Will Disappear

  19-08-2021 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I’m hopeful that the Taliban learned that music is part of the cultural identity of any nation. And I hope that the Taliban also learned that a community, a society, or a nation that does not respect their own culture — that nation cannot exist.” – Van
  
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• The Rise And Fall (And Rise And Fall) Of Jackie Mason

  19-08-2021 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How a bored young rabbi named Yacov Moshe Maza became a Borscht Belt comic, came to Hollywood and got famous, alienated Ed Sullivan and got eclipsed, then came back to become Broadway’s most proficient stand-up comedian. (The article skips his right-wing phase.) – Vulture
  
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• Quick Study: Drawing and Brain Plasticity

  19-08-2021 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  
  For this entry, I’m sharing the latest episode of the NEA’s research podcast, Quick Study. This month, we discuss brain functional changes that Auburn University researchers detected in students enrolled in a 16-week observational drawing course. The NEA-funded study results were published recently in the journal Neuropsychologia. A transcript of this podcast is at the NEA website.
  Click here for the most recent episode of Quick Study.
  
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• Alleged Italian drugs kingpin linked to stolen Van Goghs arrested in Dubai

  19-08-2021 17:52
  
  Raffaele Imperiale, suspected of buying Van Gogh paintings on black market, considered one of Italy’s most dangerous fugitives One of Italy’s most wanted men, an alleged top drug trafficker suspected of having bought two stolen Van Gogh paintings on the black market, has been arrested in Dubai.Raffaele Imperiale, an alleged kingpin in the Naples-based Camorra organised crime syndicate, was arrested on 4 August, Italy’s state police and financial crimes police corps said in a jo
  
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• Alleged Italian drugs kingpin arrested in Dubai

  19-08-2021 17:52
  
  Raffaele Imperiale is suspected of having bought two stolen Van Gogh paintings on black market One of Italy’s most wanted men, an alleged top drug trafficker suspected of having bought two stolen Van Gogh paintings on the black market, has been arrested in Dubai.Raffaele Imperiale, an alleged kingpin in the Naples-based Camorra organised crime syndicate, was arrested on 4 August, Italy’s state police and financial crimes police corps said in a joint statement on Thursday. Related: It
  
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• There’s Nothing Benign About Even Subtle Design Changes In Social Media

  19-08-2021 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Social-media and streaming apps constantly change aspects of their “user experience,” which includes digital-interface design, to push users toward new features. – The New Yorker
  
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• Using Social Media To Teach The Secret Language Of Enslaved African-Americans

  19-08-2021 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Videos teaching how to speak and write in Tut, and the history behind the language have flooded TikTok in recent months. … Now Tut speakers are teaching others through Google Classroom and Discord. Instagram pages have shared guides on writing and reading the Tut alphabet.” – NBC News
  
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• Scarlett Johansson’s ‘Black Widow’ Lawsuit Could Be A Movie Industry Watershed

  19-08-2021 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At stake is the future of how Hollywood stars negotiate their salaries, and how much they can command. … But the way the drama has unfolded … also reflects the bare-knuckles business environment that has emerged as the industry battles the tiring effect of whipsaw revamping.” – Variety
  
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• The Most Exciting, Original Streamed Theater Of The Pandemic Happened In A 2x4x8-Foot Closet

  19-08-2021 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jesse Green says that Joshua William Gelb’s Theater in Quarantine “offered the best argument by far for the artistic promise of streaming theater. So I wanted to see how they were made, and especially where.” – The New York Times
  
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• Why Joshua Wolf Shenk Was Forced Out Of ‘The Believer’ (It Wasn’t Just The Naked Zoom Meeting)

  19-08-2021 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He was hired in 2015 to revivify the Black Mountain Institute at UNLV and make Las Vegas a literary destination. He seemed to be succeeding — until the camera incident in February. Yet, staffers say, that was just one of many cases of bad behavior. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Tennessee Teacher Fired For Teaching Ta-Nehisi Coates Essay

  19-08-2021 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Matt Hawn assigned his high schoolers in Blountville, in the state’s northeast corner, Coates’s “The First White President,” which argues that Donald Trump was elected because of white grievance. He says he wanted the class to assess the essay critically; the school board wasn’t having it. – The Atlantic
  
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• DC’s Arts Council Shifts $5.3 Million From Large To Small Institutions

  19-08-2021 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities has dramatically reshaped the way it supports Washington’s arts community by directing significant increases to the city’s small and midsize arts organizations and making steep cuts to almost two dozen major institutions.” – The Washington Post
  
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• Fears Of Calamity For Culture In Afghanistan As Taliban Take Control

  19-08-2021 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When it controlled the country before 2001, the hardline Islamist group was infamous for banning music, TV, film, and most visual art — not to mention the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas. The Taliban say they’ve moderated since then, but many are doubtful — and scared. – The Week
  
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• Circus Smirkus – Executive Artistic Director

  19-08-2021 07:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Circus Smirkus (Smirkus) is a world-renowned, nonprofit circus arts organization that inspires kids of all ages to develop artistic, athletic, and life skills through the power of performance. Its three programs—Residencies, Smirkus Camp, and Big Top Tour—blend the best of circus tradition and contemporary practice to create immersive experiences that challenge kids to perform and live to the very best of their abilities. Founded in 1987 and headquartered in a 150-year-old farmhouse
  
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• Will Streaming Theatre Still Be Viable Once Stages Reopen?

  19-08-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the last few months, the requests for either virtual or digital performances from streaming have really dropped off dramatically. They’re still happening, but it’s maybe 10 percent of the requests that we get.” – The New York Times
  
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