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• Engineering Popularity of Music: Fans Are Getting Restless

  29-07-2024 23:32 via theguardian.com
  There is a fundamental disconnect between what feels popular and what is statistically popular, which has contributed to this weird tension among pop fans. – The Guardian
  
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• How Kids Learn: Not All Screen Time Is Equal

  29-07-2024 23:00 via thewalrus.ca
  
  Instead of worrying about the quantity of screen time that preschoolers engage in, the new guidelines suggest, parents should consider the quality of it. Preference should be given to activities like interactive educational programs or family movie nights over solo passive viewing of, say, cartoons on a tablet. – The Walrus
  
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• Deadpool And Wolverine Has Biggest Box Office Weekend For An “R”-Rated Movie

  29-07-2024 22:17 via latimes.com
  
  The movie brought in $205 million in its first weekend domestically at the box office, according to Comscore estimates. It cost $200 million to produce, according to Variety. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• How The Enrollment Industrial Complex Is Harming Higher Ed

  29-07-2024 21:31 via insidehighered.com
  
  “The concept is to award financial aid in a way that results in the maximum total amount of net tuition revenue for the institution.” What this means is that institutional financial aid dollars that used to go to financially needy students are being used to provide discounts to entice affluent ones to enroll. – InsideHigherEd
  
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• A Performance Artist Steals A Coin From The British Museum. Is It Art?

  29-07-2024 20:44 via theconversation.com
  
  The central focus of the project was the coin, its removal from its display and its deposition in a donation box at the museum. Sartuzi has described the practicalities of the project, which included preparing a replica of the coin to replace the original, and the focus of reporting has been on the objects. – The Conversation
  
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• What I Learned Memorizing A Poem A Day

  29-07-2024 19:58 via washingtonpost.com
  Because the process is as simple as it is stultifying, memorizing a poem always begins as a crime. The tedium of repetition reduces the hewn gemstone to a pile of gravel in which only the occasional dull agate stands out. But as you run your hands through the rock, the lines come together again. – Washington Post
  
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• Remembering Lewis Lapham

  29-07-2024 19:16 via harpers.org
  
  His goal: “to ask questions, not to provide ready-made answers, to say, in effect, look at this, see how much more beautiful and strange and full of possibility is the world than can be imagined by the mythographers at Time or NBC.” – Harper’s
  
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• War Crime Outcomes — Two Coverups in the Slaughterhouse of War

  29-07-2024 18:43 via artsjournal.com
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• Report: People Are Posting Less On Social Media

  29-07-2024 18:31 via wsj.com
  Billions of people access social media monthly, but users are posting less and favoring a more passive experience, surveys of users and research from data-analytics firms say. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• The Woman Who Invented The Apple Dance

  29-07-2024 17:45 via theguardian.com
  
  The dance was dreamt up by Kelley Heyer, a New York-based actor and content creator who decided to film herself making it up “on a whim”. – The Guardian
  
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• Why An Actor On The Fast Path To Stardom Left Hollywood For A Quiet Rural Life

  29-07-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Josh Hartnett, raising goats (and four children) in Hampshire, says, that “‘unlike when he’s in New York or LA, ‘where people only want to talk about your career,’ he says, here ‘nobody cares,’ which is just how he likes it.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Olympic ‘Last Supper’ scene was in fact based on painting of Greek gods, say art experts

  29-07-2024 16:48
  
  Dutch artist’s 17th-century work said to have inspired tableau that has offended Christian and conservative criticsA controversial tableau in the Olympics opening ceremony denounced by Christian and conservative critics as an offensive parody of The Last Supper was in fact inspired by a 17th-century Dutch painting of the Greek Olympian gods, art historians have said.“Does this painting remind you of something?” the Magnin Museum in the French city of Dijon asked (with a wink) o
  
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• Books For Lovers Of The Olympics

  29-07-2024 16:30 via theatlantic.com
  
  When the Games aren’t on – or, horror of horrors, after they end in August – reading material abounds. – The Atlantic
  
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• For Some Reason, People Really Love R-Rated Marvel

  29-07-2024 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Like, a lot. Deadpool & Wolverine “shattered the opening record for R-rated films previously held by the first Deadpool ($132m) and notched a spot in the top 10 openings of all time.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Comedy Critics Weigh In On The Vice-President’s Laugh

  29-07-2024 15:45 via nytimes.com
  
  “Only in an era when everything gets politicized would a campaign come out aggressively against boisterous laughter. What next? Running against puppies and ice cream? Laughter transcends party politics.” – The New York Times
  
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• How Singing Helps People With Dementia Reconnect

  29-07-2024 15:30 via theguardian.com
  “For those who choose to sing in dementia-inclusive choirs, numerous studies have found substantial improvements in communication, mood, wellbeing and quality of life.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Comedies Aimed At, And Starring, Older Women Are Doing Pretty Damn Well

  29-07-2024 15:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Some similarities in plot exist: “There are usually high jinks involving behavior that one might not expect from seniors. They get high. They go on adventurous excursions like parasailing or ziplining. They experiment with technology and social media.” And then, the sex toys. – The New York Times
  
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• Who Will Be This Year’s Emmy Villain?

  29-07-2024 15:00 via vulture.com
  
  David Zaslav? Robert Downey Jr.? Or perhaps the entire British villainy Gestalt of The Crown? – Vulture
  
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• Hollywood, Now Playing To The Red States

  29-07-2024 14:45 via artsjournal.com
  “A lot of people in Hollywood only seem able to discuss the middle of the country while holding their nose. But entertainment is a reactive business: chase what worked over the weekend, drop what didn’t.” – The New York Times
  
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• As CD Sales Soar, Everyone Older Than 35 Wonders Why They Gave Their Collections Away

  29-07-2024 14:30 via theguardian.com
  “What a cool thing, I told myself, as I walked away unencumbered, to own no albums… yet somehow to own every album. What freedom! What choice! I don’t know how long it took for the regret to sink in.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Philip Glass Warned The Crimean Ballet Not To Use His Music

  29-07-2024 14:15 via stereogum.com
  
  “In an open letter posted on his social media accounts, Glass says he has not given the ballet company permission to use his music, and he strongly urges them not to proceed with any such production.” – StereoGum
  
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• The Woman Who Builds The NYT’s Connections Doesn’t Know Why People Are So Intense About It

  29-07-2024 14:00 via slate.com
  “Get invested enough in Connections, and its easy to feel like Liu holds a weird sway over your life, as a chosen one who’s been endowed with the power to make or destroy thousands of people’s days in one fell swoop.” – Slate
  
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• Why Can’t AI Do A Better Job Of Recommending Movies?

  29-07-2024 13:45 via theverge.com
  
  “It’s one of the most common low-stakes annoyances in modern life: you flop down on the couch, … [ready] to watch one of the dozens of incredible shows or movies you have access to” – and end up watching a rerun of a show you already know. Why? – The Verge
  
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• James C. Scott, An Iconoclastic Social Scientist Who Studied How Marginalized Groups Undermine Traditional Power, Has Died At 87

  29-07-2024 13:30 via nytimes.com
  
  He was “a big-picture scholar,” readable to non-academics as well as other scholars, and “the theories about resistance to power that he extrapolated led to a new view of supposedly primitive peoples and to a new academic field, resistance studies.” – The New York Times
  
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• ‘Welcome to Wrexham!’ Is my old hometown about to become a hothouse of culture?

  29-07-2024 12:16
  
  Our critic returns to the place of his birth to find the rough old town where he grew up has been transformed – and not just by Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds buying the football teamThe actor Rob McElhenney, reclining and bare-chested, gives a come-hither look as you enter the Tŷ Pawb (“Everybody’s House”) art gallery/market in Wrexham, Wales. McElhenney, famously, co-owns Wrexham football club with Ryan Reynolds and, clearly, you can’t get away from their g
  
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• Hello sailors: what these two kissing seamen can tell us about Kamala Harris’s White House bid

  29-07-2024 09:00
  
  With this luminous painting, Amy Sherald sought to ‘uncensor’ a passionate act that should only ever have been regarded as normal. It came to mind as I watched Harris setting her sights on the presidencyHow do we imagine our own futures? The answer is influenced by what we see in art, in films, on our screens, or hear in music. Take love. If you think about the way it has been depicted in art, your mind might go to Rodin’s figures, forever chiselled into one; Klimt’s coup
  
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