Built into the standard conception of rationality are two fundamental assumptions. The first is that there is a best way for any life to be. The second is a more technical assumption – I’ll call it the Axiom of Transitivity for Better Than – which holds that for any three choices, if the first option is better than the second, and the second option is better than the third, then the first option must be better than the third.
Tag: 03.11.18
How Fake News Spreads Online
For all categories of information — politics, entertainment, business and so on — we found that false stories spread significantly farther, faster and more broadly than did true ones. Falsehoods were 70 percent more likely to be retweeted, even when controlling for the age of the original tweeter’s account, its activity level, the number of its followers and followees, and whether Twitter had verified the account as genuine.
How A Woodworker Made A Fake Antique That Fooled A Major Museum
“The Civil War memorial secretary was widely embraced as a folk art treasure. Fashioned from walnut, maple and oak, it was said to have been created circa 1876 to honor John Bingham, a Union infantryman who had fallen at Antietam. … The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford purchased the work and gave it prominent display.” Until last year, that is. And now the forger has (proudly) confessed.
Why Nazi-Looted Art Has Never Really Been Resolved
The feverish nature of the art market during the Second World War, and ever since, offers at least one straightforward reason for both the Nazi art theft itself and for why items have never been restituted. “There is no cultural genre in which money plays as big a role as visual arts,” Rein Wolfs, the director of the Bonn Museum of Modern Art, told me. “Dance, or theater, they aren’t about goods. But art, it’s about goods. There’s so much confusion around it because there’s so much money involved.”
English Speakers Love To Call Each Other Out For ‘Bad’ Grammar, But Why?
The internet has made the pace of language change much, much faster. “Now that every English speaker in the world can talk to every other English speaker in the world, the virus is mutating vociferously. The modern grievance airer must keep pace.”
As One Might Expect, The iHeart Radio Awards Are Just About The Opposite Of The Grammys
These awards happened this weekend, and yes: “If the Grammys are out of touch, the iHeartRadio awards are almost too in touch, celebrating the most popular of popular music and rejecting stuff that’s unnecessarily hip or cool.” (Er … unnecessarily?)
This First Soloist At The Royal Ballet Had Ten Minutes To Warm Up Before He Replaced The Injured David Hallberg
Matthew Ball “was asked to rush back to the Royal Opera House and dance a key role in Giselle, a part he had performed only once before, after the American star David Hallberg injured himself during the first act. It had been Hallberg’s long-awaited comeback, almost three years after a devastating foot injury.”
Westminster Abbey Opens A Museum In A Space Closed To The Public For The Last 700 Years
The space was used for storage until, well, recently, when they took up the floorboards, only to find literally centuries worth of detritus – including many different centuries of stained glass blown in by bombs (or simple breakage).
The Persistent, Ongoing Crime Of Nazi-Looted Art
Sickeningly, the Nazi-looted art led to a boom in the global art market from 1941 onward. They stole so very, very much art to fund the war effort: “In the decade leading up to 1945, it’s estimated that the Nazis stole one-fifth of all the artworks in Europe.”
Here’s What Barry Jenkins Would Have Said In His ‘Moonlight’ Acceptance Speech At The 2017 Oscars
There was, as we all know, a famous glitch in the delivery of Moonlight‘s Best Picture Oscar, and Jenkins was so overwhelmed at the time that he didn’t get to read his speech. So at this week’s South by Southwest Festival, he read it. He added quite a bit, as well – for instance: “When I looked back at those kids, sitting in my chair … watching me make this film that’s gonna go on to win Best Picture, I see they see in me the dream I never allowed myself to have. It floored me.”