At Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, pilosophers and researchers consider the potential long-term consequences of a geologic event (say, the eruption of a super-volcano) followed by a mass extinction, interstellar travel, or the development of a truly powerful artificial intelligence.
Tag: 02.25.13
Fifty Unknown Rudyard Kipling Poems To Be Published
“Discovered by the American scholar Thomas Pinney in an array of hiding places including family papers, the archive of a former head of the Cunard Line and during renovations at a Manhattan house, more than 50 previously unpublished poems by Rudyard Kipling will be released for the first time next month.”
Denis Forman, 95, Producer Of Legendary British TV Series
“One of the founding executives of Granada TV in the mid 1950s, Forman went on to become is joint managing director and chairman between 1974 and 1987. He was responsible for a new generation of programmes that helped to redefine British TV,” including Coronation Street, World in Action, Brideshead Revisited and The Jewel in the Crown.”
Is Barnes & Noble Backing Away From The Nook?
“A person familiar with Barnes & Nobles’s strategy acknowledged that this quarter, which includes holiday sales, has caused executives to realize the company must move away from its program to engineer and build its own devices and focus more on licensing its content to other device makers.”
Frank Lloyd Wright House For Sale (But You Have To Move It)
“The asking price is $950,000, plus relocation costs. And they’ve found a prospective buyer: an Italian architect wants to bring it to Fiesole, a hilltop town near Florence, where Frank Lloyd Wright once lived.”
Will There Be A Glenn Gould National Park?
“Glenn Gould National Park? Mount Gould? Gould Falls? The Gould Archipelago? Glenn Strait?”
Canadian Ambassador Sets The Record Straight About Argo
“Ken Taylor would like to set the historical record straight about what happened after the U.S. embassy was overrun by militants on Nov. 4, 1979, and six Americans found safe haven in a pair of official Canadian residences.”
When Business Journalists Interview The Royal Ballet’s Director
Reuters and the IHT ask Kevin O’Hare how ballet;s famous discpline helps him as a manager, what he learned from the people he worked (and danced) for in the past, and how to “hold together a bunch of extremely ambitious people.”
A Non-Oscar Story About Michael Haneke: He Directs Mozart In Madrid
The filmmaker behind Amour talks to the BBC World Service’s arts programme, The Strand, about his new production of Così fan tutte at the Teatro Real.
Mixing Algorithms And Modern Dance And Using The Result As Scenic Design
Ranjit Bhatnagar “and his compatriots in the ‘hacker collective’ NYCResistor are figuring out a way to project each quiver of a ballet slipper and every choreographed step on a wall facing the audience, giving them a literal new perspective on the nuances of choreography.”