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• A timely Turing

  28-03-2023 21:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  After a promising Chicago workshop performance four years ago, Chicago Opera Theater’s The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing returned for a two-performance world premiere at the Harris Theater last week, conducted by COT music director Lidiya Yankovskaya. It’s a gut-wrenching piece in a well-crafted production, with two major themes that couldn’t be more contemporary: […]
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• Reaction to bronze sculpture of Coretta and Martin Luther King Jr. in Boston hasn’t been good – and that’s not bad for art that shatters conventions

  28-03-2023 15:00
  
  The Coretta and Martin Luther King Jr. memorial sculpture at Boston Common is called ‘The Embrace.’ Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
  by Kristin Ann Hass, University of Michigan
  As an acclaimed photographer and conceptual artist, Hank Willis Thomas has grown accustomed to criticisms of his unconventional art and concepts of identity.
  But even Thomas had never experienced anything like the reaction to his latest sculpture, designed to commemorate the lives of Coretta and M
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Felony murder and frontal lobe studies

  28-03-2023 14:00
  
  Human brain in x-ray view – Getty Images stock photo
  The latest studies in neuroscience suggest that the frontal lobe of the human brain doesn’t fully develop until the age of 25. However, in 2022, Kate Mills, a neuroscientist, said, “We’re still not there with the research to say the brain is mature at 25 because we don’t have a good indication of what maturity even looks like.”
  Neuroscientists define maturity as the point when changes in the brain level off.
  
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