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• Trying To Understand Cravings

  22-09-2022 23:56 via aeon.co
  If excessively strong cravings were simply the result of drugs corrupting the reward systems in the brain, they should be produced across individuals who use drugs repeatedly over time. This is not the case.  – Aeon
  
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• The Price Of Child Stardom (And What It Says About Us)

  22-09-2022 23:31 via theconversation.com
   It shouldn’t shock us that many of them had uncomfortable and even traumatic experiences. Memoirs by Sarah Polley and Jennette McCurd  force us to confront why we love to see child stars, and what our appetite for cute white kids says about us. – The Conversation
  
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• Tracey Emin to auction work to fund Margate studios for emerging artists

  22-09-2022 18:29
  Sale of work about cancer experience estimated to raise up to £700,000 towards artists’ hub in Kent townFor a year during treatment for bladder cancer, in which she thought she would die, Tracey Emin could not paint.Then, in a release of energy and emotion, she created Like a Cloud of Blood, a deeply intimate representation of her experiences. Continue reading...
  
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• Activists subvert poster sites to shame aviation and ad industries

  22-09-2022 16:26
  Billboards have been hijacked across Europe to highlight role of airline emissions in climate crisisAs Kate, 23, walked out of Seven Sisters station, in Tottenham, north London, she noticed an airline advertisement attracting unusual attention.“I was on my way back home, I was coming out of the station, and I saw two people taking pictures of the billboard,” she said. “I thought at first it was just a normal airline ad, so I just walked past. Then I did a bit of a double take.&
  
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• Director of Capital Projects – Philadelphia Orchestra/Kimmel Center

  22-09-2022 02:28 via artsjournal.com
  Title: Director of Capital Projects
  Department: Operations and Facilities
  Reports to: Chief Operations and Facilities Officer (COFO)Summary:The Director of Capital Projects, working in close support of the Chief Operations and Facilities Officer provides project management oversight of a wide range of infrastructure and facility improvements, renovations, upgrades across the Kimmel Cultural Campus. The Director will participate in strategic planning of capital improvements and is responsible for
  
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