“A growing body of evidence suggests that biological explanations are stigmatizing, possibly because people tend to see such problems as less treatable.”
Tag: 03.20.15
World’s Big Museums Face Crisis Of Too Many Visitors
Nearly 10 million people a year pass through the Louvre, 7 million visit the British Museum, and 6 million go to the Met in New York. “The Louvre was conceived for 5 million people,” noted the president of the sprawling Paris museum, Jean-Luc Martinez. “For the past three years straight we’ve had more than 9 million.”
Couple Who Hid 271 Picassos In Garage For Four Decades Convicted
The court in a Côte d’Azur town gave Pierre and Danielle Le Guennec “a two-year suspended sentence, ending years of intrigue surrounding a mysterious suitcase full of drawings that the couple took to Paris in 2010 to show Claude Picasso, the late painter’s son who represents the artist’s heirs and estate.”
No, Pay-As-You-Go Cable Won’t Lower Your TV Bill
“The big misunderstanding about the current system is that we are somehow paying through our cable bills the actual per-channel cost for all the channels we don’t watch. Broadcasting distributors are really selling us access; the bigger the bill, the more choice is offered. Complaining about unwatched channels is a bit like complaining about the fancy elliptical machine at the health club. You may never use it, but somebody else does and their fees are helping pay for your treadmill.”
Finding That Lost City In The Honduran Jungle Was The Easy Part: The Danger Now Is –
– looting. In a New York Times Op-Ed, Tom Lutz describes the problems that a poor country like Honduras – and an underfunded discipline like archaeology – have keeping the newly discovered site safe.
We Experience The World We Infer, Not The World As It Is
“It can feel like our senses give us direct access to the world as it is now, and our memory to the world as it once was. Commentator Tania Lombrozo challenges these ideas.”
Director Peter Sellars On Art, The Audience, And Controversy
“For me, the art that’s made with the audience in mind is so numbing and insulting and demeaning – because it’s assuming that I don’t have a really interesting and complicated life, and somebody knows what I think. And nobody knows what I think because I’m still wrestling with what I think most days, so I hate it when somebody tells me what I think.”
An Era Passes As Three Of The American Ballet’s Principal Ballerinas Retire
As Paloma Herrera, Julie Kent and Xiomara Reyes retire, “the greater burden is on ABT, losing one-third of its roster of top-rank ballerinas. Casting for its spring-summer run in New York suggests soloists Misty Copeland and Sarah Lane may be in line for promotion. But there is no replacing the veteran ballerinas.”
South By Southwest Is A Huge Scam That Exploits Musicians (And Many Others)
“How is this different, you might ask, from unpaid internships at accounting firms or on Wall Street? How is it different from writers or artists working for “exposure”? I’ll tell you how it’s different: It’s not. It’s the same horrible, terrible, no good, very bad thing. And it’s wrong.”
The Johnny Carson Comeback Special That Never Made It To Your Screen
“Carson had taken up business in a laid back office in Santa Monica where he would take lunches with former friends and employees. At one of these lunches with Barrie and Mulholland, Carson mentioned that he had been considering what a return to TV special might be like.”