“Why is our culture still chasing, consuming, striving ever harder, even though we know in our sophisticated minds that it’s an unrewarding route to eco-geddon? New scientific studies are helping to reveal why. It’s our primitive brains. These marvellous machines got us down from the trees and around the world, through ice ages, famines, plagues and disasters, into our unprecedented era of abundance. But they never had to evolve an instinct that said, ‘enough’.”
Tag: 01.12.08
UK Theatre Schools Stuffed To Overflowing
“Stage schools are experiencing an unprecedented demand for places with some of the best-known academies having to turn down applicants in an era that has been called the ‘golden age’ of fame schools.”
Why Do Some Authors Want Anonymity
“Why was it so important to so many authors to remain unnamed? The perplexed compilers of the dictionary guessed that the usual motive was “some kind of timidity, such as (a) diffidence, (b) fear of consequences, and (c) shame”. Yet this does scant justice to the ambitions of some of the authors who used anonymity.”
Romance Novelist Accused Of Plagiarism
“Allegations this week that Cassie Edwards, a popular romance novelist with more than 100 books to her name, inserted large chunks of unattributed material into her work blossomed into a controversy that led Signet Books, one of her publishers, to announce on Friday that it was examining all of her work that it has published.”
China’s Great Year At The Movies
China made a record 402 movies in 2007. China exported 78 feature films and that more than 200 movies from the country were entered in nearly 100 film festivals last year.
Study: Violent Movies May Reduce Crime
A new study arrives at the counter-intuitive conclusion that violent films may reduce crime rates.
88-Year-Old Makes Ballet Debut
John Lowe is a former teacher and has been sturying ballet for nine years. “It’s a wonderful feeling. I had always wanted to dance and it proves it’s never too late to learn. I see these people crawling around, hunched over smoking a cigarette – they should be doing ballet.” He will be appearing with the Lantern Dance Theatre Company at The Maltings in Ely tomorrow.