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• 500 Scientists Spent €600 million Over 10 Years On The Human Brain Project. How’d It Go?

  23-08-2023 23:55 via nature.com
  
  During its run, scientists have published thousands of papers and made significant strides in neuroscience, such as creating detailed 3D maps of at least 200 brain regions, developing brain implants to treat blindness and using supercomputers to model functions such as memory and consciousness and to advance treatments for various brain conditions. – Nature
  
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• Hollywood Studios Make Proposal To Striking Writers Public

  23-08-2023 23:28 via nytimes.com
  
  By releasing the proposal, the companies are essentially going around the guild’s negotiating committee and appealing to rank-and-file members — betting that their proposal will look good enough for members to pressure their leaders to make a deal. – The New York Times
  
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• This Summer’s Movie Box Office Might Just Turn Out Okay

  23-08-2023 23:01 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Thanks in large part to Barbenheimer, summer revenue now rests at $3.797 billion, a 16.6 percent spike over the same summer corridor in 2022. And the deficit from summer 2019 — when revenue hit $4.34 billion — has decreased from 15 percent to 5.4 percent. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• How Hip-Hop Revitalized American Poetry

  23-08-2023 22:25 via nytimes.com
  
  America is celebrating more than just a musical form. It’s celebrating the moment when rap gave America back its poetry. – The New York Times
  
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• More And More AI-Written Books Are Getting On Amazon

  23-08-2023 22:01 via axios.com
  Searches on Amazon — estimated to control at least half of all U.S. book sales, and an even bigger share of the growing e-book market — are increasingly turning up mediocre AI-generated titles filled with unreliable information and soggy prose. – Axios
  
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• Describe What You Want: Think Text-To-Image AI Is Cool? Now There’s Text-To-Music

  23-08-2023 21:32 via techcrunch.com
  
  These tools are mainly targeting creators, who can use copyright-free music in their videos or podcasts. The developers are also hoping that musicians notice their tools and blend them into their sample or song-making process. – TechCrunch
  
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• NBCUniversal Is Facing A Big, And Dramatic, Lawsuit Over Its Reality Shows

  23-08-2023 21:05 via msn.com
  In a warning letter, two attorneys allege that “NBC has exceeded the moral and legal limits permissible in a civilized society … (with) a pattern and practice of grotesque and depraved mistreatment of reality stars and crew members. … Please be advised that the day of reckoning has arrived.” – MSN (Vulture)
  
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• EU Gigs For UK Musicians Have Dried Up Since Brexit

  23-08-2023 20:29 via theguardian.com
  
  “Work has come to a halt … The offer of European gigs simply dried up … My band simply can’t make any kind of living in the tiny UK market, so we basically have folded as a working band.” – The Guardian
  
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• This Art-Dealing Dynasty Is Even More Filthy Rich Than Anyone Knew — For Now

  23-08-2023 20:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The Wildensteins’ business goes back five generations and 150 years; family members have always been secretive, even by art-world standards. But a lawsuit by a disinherited widow has uncovered what a prosecutor alleged is “the longest and most sophisticated tax fraud” in modern French history. – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• Stephen King On Teaching Computers To Write

  23-08-2023 19:34 via theatlantic.com
  
  “Creativity can’t happen without sentience, and there are now arguments that some AIs are indeed sentient. If that is true now or in the future, then creativity might be possible. I view this possibility with a certain dreadful fascination.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Yes, Indie Bookstores Can Help Change The World, Especially Now

  23-08-2023 19:06 via esquire.com
  
  Josh Cook: “People use books to develop their morals, support and test their belief structures, come to conclusions about the state of the world, and make voting decisions. … Person to person, display to display, event to event, book sales have a real opportunity to shape … a more sustainable world.” – Esquire
  
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• A Masterclass In Biography-Writing: How Patti Hartigan Got To Know August Wilson

  23-08-2023 18:26 via americantheatre.org
  
  The blood’s memory really coursed through August. You also have to remember that the man read everything ever written—he was an autodidact. But he didn’t specifically research and say, “Okay, I’m writing a play about this era…” – American Theatre
  
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• “We Are Smack Dab In The Middle Of A Neofascist Revival”: Is The Directorship Of Italy’s Museums Being Politicized?

  23-08-2023 18:03 via msn.com
  Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing government is replacing the directors at the country’s landmark museums — a number of which, such as the Uffizi, have highly professional but non-Italian directors. In the wake of changes at the national broadcaster, some cultural leaders worry about a return of Mussolini-style policies. – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Remember Choreographer Yvonne Rainer’s “No Manifesto”? She Didn’t Really Mean It.

  23-08-2023 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The 1965 declaration was absolutist: “No to spectacle. No to virtuosity. No to transformations and magic and make-believe … no to moving or being moved.” Today she says, “Oh no. That was a certain point in art history. … I never meant it as a doctrine to govern my decisions.” – The Guardian
  
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• Belfast’s Arts Center Could Be Shut Down Due To Financial And Management Troubles

  23-08-2023 17:05 via bbc.com
  
  Northern Ireland’s state arts funding body is reportedly reconsidering its support of the Metropolitan Arts Centre in the province’s capital. MAC — which includes two theatres, three art galleries, a dance studio, and workshops — has had 2.5 million visitors since opening in 2012. – BBC
  
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• “Fleabag” Has Been Casting A Long Shadow — Too Long — Over Women At The Edinburgh Fringe

  23-08-2023 16:32 via theguardian.com
  
  “For a long time critics couldn’t stop talking about the ‘next Fleabag’ in a way that may have been constraining for other women writing frank, funny solo pieces about their messy lives.” Natasha Tripney talks with three of those women at this year’s festival. – The Guardian
  
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• How Do You Translate A Musical Like “Chicago” Into Arabic?

  23-08-2023 16:04 via nytimes.com
  
  You transpose it to Beirut.  It was a complicated endeavor, especially (given the huge differences between Arabic and English) for the songs. But it worked — in fact, says the Arabic lyricist, “It’s like it was written to be a commentary on the judicial system in Lebanon.” – The New York Times
  
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• An extreme dance on top of a bus shelter: Emmanuel Cole’s best photograph

  23-08-2023 15:59
  
  ‘This trio are celebrating the Notting Hill carnival with a dance called daggering which is common in Jamaica. This bus stop has now been altered – to stop people mounting it during the carnival’Technically, the first time I was at the Notting Hill carnival was in 1990. My mum went there when she was pregnant with me. I started going properly, though, when I was seven or eight. The first time I photographed it was 2014 but I messed up and didn’t get any shots. So I really
  
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• Should We Just Drop The NC-17 Rating Altogether?

  23-08-2023 15:31 via thewrap.com
  
  “(The film) Passages and its battle with the ratings system (are) another flash point in a long-running argument. … Many question the value of the NC-17 in particular, given its infrequent use — and its disproportionate application, according to critics, to movies featuring queer or female sexuality.” – TheWrap
  
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• Pew Research Center Runs The Numbers On US Radio Listenership

  23-08-2023 15:06 via insideradio.com
  
  “First and foremost, the firm notes that approximately eight-in-ten Americans (12+) listen to broadcast radio weekly. Weekly listening to radio has remained relatively steady in the last two years after dropping slightly in 2020. … Weekly listenership dropped from 89% in 2019 to 83% in 2020.” – Inside Radio
  
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• They’re Called Haptic Suits, And They Let Deaf People (And Others) Experience Music As Vibrations On The Skin

  23-08-2023 14:33 via nytimes.com
  
  “Developed by the Philadelphia-based company Music: Not Impossible, the device consists of two ankle bands, two wrist bands and a backpack that fastens with double straps over the rib cage. … (These) suits are unique because the devices turn individual notes of music into specific vibrations.” – The New York Times
  
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• Is The Market Power Of BookTok Starting To Fade?

  23-08-2023 14:00 via publishersweekly.com
  “But a new analysis by BookScan shows that BookTok’s effect on sales is diminishing. The most notable sign of that softening came in July, when, for the first time, sales from the roughly 180 BookTok authors BookScan follows fell compared to the prior year.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Pedro Carboné (1960-2023)

  23-08-2023 00:51 via artsjournal.com
  
  The pianist Pedro Carboné – who was one of my closest friends – died last night
  
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• Pre-Inca People Built Floors Like Drums On Which Dancers Stomped Beats

  23-08-2023 00:01 via sciencenews.org
  
  Different layers of soil, ash and guano created a floor that absorbed shocks while emitting resonant sounds when people stomped on it. This ceremonial surface worked like a large drum that groups of 20 to 25 people could have played with their feet. – Science News
  
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