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Spotify Has Become A Huge Player In Audiobooks
Spotify announced that the total number of hours of audiobooks listened to on the service are up 60% year-over-year, with one million people having paid for Audiobooks+, an add-on launched last year that allows listeners to unlock…
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How Have The Great Pyramids Survived Millennia Of Earthquakes? By Design, Of Course
“The Great Pyramid behaves as a single, cohesive unit that naturally vibrates at a fundamental frequency of approximately 2.3 Hz. The frequency difference prevents the destructive phenomenon of resonance, the primary culprit behind the…
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NPR concedes, Omaha plays offense
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NPR CEO Katherine Maher told the Medill Local News Initiative she’s not sure public radio should even be trying to get federal CPB funding back, citing the political risk that came with it (Medill Local…
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Who Was Alma Mahler? | Unanswered Question
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bhDcSZYZUs
Esther van Zyl as Alma Mahler in my play “The Marriage,” as performed at Colorado Mahlerfest two weeks ago.
By 1849, when he fled Germany, Richard…
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How Byron Allen’s Show Is Doing
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Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed saw an 85 percent drop in viewership from The Late Show‘s final episode.
Comics Unleashed also lagged behind its late-night competitors, with…
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The Savannah Philharmonic seeks Chief Executive Officer
Aspen Leadership Group is proud to partner with the Savannah Philharmonic in the search for a Chief Executive Officer.
Reporting to the Board of Directors through the Board Chair, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) will partner…
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America’s First Late-Night Talk-Show Host Was A Woman
Faye Emerson was a Hollywood actress specializing in noir films; then she married FDR’s son, moved to New York and got into TV. From 1949-1951, she hosted a 15-minute program, The Faye Emerson Show, weeknights at 11:00 pm — becoming…
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Houston Ballet’s world premiere piece ‘Sisu’ was inspired by a devastating fire
No one really wants this kind of inspiration.The contemporary ballet choreographer Alice Topp, a rising star in her native Australia and beyond, was already thinking about resilience and tenacity in January when bush fires broke out…
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Opera Is Being Reinvented In The Australian Outback
Song has always been a part of storytelling in our country. And perhaps, in remote towns, opera finally sheds the elitism that has followed it for decades. Out there, it becomes what it was always meant to be: a connection between…
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The Special Kind Of Knowledge That Can’t Be Taught
It’s not the kind of knowledge that you gain from reading a textbook or listening to a lecture, nor is it the kind of knowledge that subjects report when they try to describe their experiences to others. It can’t be expressed in natural…
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