Art and Culture

Good Afternoon, When AI can spin out endless essays in seconds and whole novels in minutes, what’s left for human writers? The Atlantic makes the case that AI writing’s smooth blandness is exactly what hands human…
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Ample research shows that passive content consumption among kids and teens is adversely affecting attention spans, language attainment, and other factors that help make deep reading both sustainable and fun. It’s all the more alarming,…
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The music industry has always sold anticipation. But the tools available to today’s artists have transformed the album rollout from a promotion into something closer to a long-running narrative event. Artists like Taylor Swift,…
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Full Text | 'I am Showing the Violence': Joe Sacco on His Book on the Muzaffarnagar Riots - The Wire…
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Pointe shoes have looked and functioned about the same since the early 20th century: typically satin-covered, with fortified insoles and boxes made from fabric, paper, and paste. Few designs have strayed too far…
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It is a tale of two presidents. On 14 June Donald Trump celebrated his 80th birthday by hosting a raucous crowd for Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on the White House South Lawn. Four days later, on the eve of Juneteenth, Barack…
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The introduction of A.I., plus the demographic cliff, has had a devastating effect on higher ed. I think that big research schools will weather the storm, but lower-tier universities like mine will shrink or go away entirely. Already…
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Understanding is a lively topic for philosophers, but not for the tech industry. In their race to the ultimate prize of AGI, Silicon Valley’s main players instead see the mechanization of reasoning as the main hurdle. For them,…
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Kahn used welcoming forms that evoked ancient vaulted spaces in the much-admired Kimbell Art Museum, in Fort Worth (1972). He would propose similar forms for Philadelphia’s Bicentennial celebration. Photo © James S. RussellAmerica may…
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Austin Chanu, a 33-year-old Brazilian-American and a former assistant conductor at the Philadelphia Orchestra, succeeds Lawrence Loh, whose 10-year tenure ended in May 2025. The Syracuse Orchestra is the musician-led co-operative…
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