Rallying Cry: Teach Everyone To Code! (But Should We?)

“My advice? Don’t teach everyone how to code. Teach them how to identify and understand needs, as well as how to visually express logic. Teach them how technology works, so they can understand the realm of possibility and then envision game-changing innovations. And then create an environment where they don’t even have to think about writing code — where building great apps is as easy as using iTunes. Just drag and drop.”

Miami’s New Contemporary Art Museum Loses Its Director After Five Months

Suzanne Weaver’s departure follows the news that Thom Collins, the director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, which opened in a Herzog & de Meuron-designed waterfront building in December 2013, is to leave the institution for the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia after five years. Meanwhile, the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach has been without a director for nearly a year following the departure last April of Cathy Leff.

French Embassy Plants Its Flag In Bookstores Across America

“The cultural services of the French Embassy in New York has been signing up independent bookstores across the United States to create special sections, called French Corners, to display French works in the original and in translation. The goal, a spokeswoman for the embassy said, is to plant the French flag in one bookstore in every major city in the United States, other than New York.”

A First: Music Streams Will Now Be Counted In UK Music Charts

“If the chart is to be a true barometer of what music is most popular in the UK, it can no longer look solely at purchases – it must also take into account individual listens. Downloads were fully integrated into the singles chart in 2007, but that part of the market has started to plateau while streaming has surged forward. At the start of 2014, the OCC was tracking an average of 192m streams per week; at the start of this year, that had jumped to 360m per week.”

Who Might Miss Jon Stewart Most? Authors

“Getting an author booked on ‘The Daily Show’ was often the Holy Grail for book publicists,” says Kate Lloyd, Scribner’s associate director of publicity. Her authors loved Stewart, she says, because “his audience is made up of smart, book-buying readers who respond to the thoughtful treatment and authentic passion he customarily expresses for the books he features.”

Iconic Japanese Designer Kenji Ekuan, 85

“Mr. Ekuan was a prolific and widely lauded designer whose work shaped products closely associated with modern Japan, including Yamaha motorcycles and a bullet train used in the country’s Shinkansen high-speed rail network. He was also an evangelist for a potent national ethos, combining pacifism and materialism, which Japan embraced after the devastation of World War II.”