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• Playlists For Your Plants (Yes, Really)

  13-03-2025 20:06 via msn.com
  While it’s been clearly demonstrated that plants respond to sound, the evidence about whether they’re affected by music, let alone which genres, is far from definitive. Nevertheless, there’s plenty of music for plants around; several streaming services even offer specially-programmed plant channels. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• What Cancellation Of Big Bird Tells Us About The State Of Our Public Good

  13-03-2025 19:31 via thewalrus.ca
  
  The cancellation of Big Bird and co. would be a loss, but there’s something bigger going on. Sesame Street’s fate is symptomatic of a larger shift in how corporations, governments, and, increasingly, citizens have lost faith in the spirit of solidarity that made initiatives like the PBS show possible. – The Walrus
  
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• At Angkor Wat, A Buddha’s Head Gets Its Torso Back

  13-03-2025 19:05 via apnews.com
  
  “Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head found nearly a century ago at the same site. The torso, believed to be from the 12th or 13th century, was discovered … last month.” – AP
  
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• Italy’s Politicians Fight Over Protecting Heritage

  13-03-2025 18:44 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  The Italia Nostra heritage group warned that “downgrading interest in landscape” posed a “serious risk to the heritage of the widespread community”. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Understanding Music Editing

  13-03-2025 18:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Like a page turner for a pianist or a sheet music librarian, music editor is the kind of job that only the idiosyncratic structures of classical music can produce. – The New York Times
  
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• In good company for aches and pains | Brief letters

  13-03-2025 18:31
  Everyday afflictions | New moons | Art appreciation | Cinema ads | End of the peer showRegarding Adrian Chiles’s article (I twanged my achilles playing pickleball. Here’s what it taught me about tendons – and human nature, 12 March), now I am in my 70s, life does seem to be a succession of various aches and pains, which can be irksome to the spirit. Am I alone in feeling a little solace when hearing of others having similar afflictions?
  Michael Fuller
  Bedford• A friend onc
  
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• Actors Unions Frustrated In AI Negotiations With Video Game Industry

  13-03-2025 18:15 via thewrap.com
  
  According to SAG-AFTRA, a recent proposal submitted by the major video game makers was filled with “alarming loopholes that will leave our members vulnerable to A.I. abuse.” – The Wrap
  
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• Keep your head above water: art show looks at the rising seas

  13-03-2025 11:00
  From a high chair to the ocean floor, Can the Seas Survive Us? in Norfolk’s Sainsbury Centre explores our watery world and the climate crisisOne of the most striking things that will be on display at an exhibition in Norfolk this weekend is an oak chair. Ordinary enough, except that it is elevated high in the air. Why? Because this is where it will need to be in 2100, given rising sea levels in the Netherlands, where it was made by the artist Boris Maas.Entitled The Urge to Sit Dry (2018),
  
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• Larry Stanton: the artist who captured New York’s gay scene at a time of crisis

  13-03-2025 09:03
  A new exhibition in Los Angeles celebrates the life and work of a painter who died at 37 of Aids as he tried to preserve a record of those around himTaken too early by the Aids pandemic, the artist Larry Stanton created work for an exuberant, prodigious handful of years before dying in 1984 at age 37. Championed by David Hockney, whose work his paintings at time resemble, Stanton excelled in creating portraits of gay men that are at once guileless and penetrating.Clearing Gallery in Los Angeles
  
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• ‘In plain sight’: How The Hague museum was secret hideout from Nazi forced labour

  13-03-2025 06:00
  Mauritshuis exhibition reveals Dutch families hid in attic to avoid conscription to Germany in second world warThe 13-year-old boy answered the doorbell. “Tell your dad I’m here,” said a man, who stored his bicycle and then disappeared upstairs.It was 1944, and right under the noses of Nazi command, people were hiding in the attic of The Hague’s Mauritshuis museum from forced labour conscription – Arbeitseinsatz – under which hundreds of thousands of citizens
  
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