“Ensuring that copyright was temporary was expressly written into the Constitution … While the Founders’ copyright was for 14 years, today’s copyright lasts over 100 years. Thus the instrument the founders created to ‘promote the progress of the sciences’ is actually being used to impede the progress of the sciences” and culture.
Tag: 05.06.14
BBC Classical Radio Host Antony Hopkins Dead At 93
While he was also a conductor, composer and accomplished pianist (he often accompanied his guests), he became an institution over 36 years as the host of Radio 3’s Talking About Music.
San Francisco Ballet Principal Makes Foot Paintings At The Barre
Damian Smith, a 40-year-old principal dancer who is preparing to retire after an 18-year career, is dipping his feet in paint while taking class and then doing his exercises on canvas. The resulting abstract artwork will be auctioned to support a local museum.
The Tortured Rise of the All-American Bro
“Where did this strange American Bro come from, this alien, fist-pumping, Jager-bombing avatar of modern sexism, racism, and nihilism? … At what point did all strong homosocial relationships between men become conflated with the most vile and socially abhorrent behavior and egregious sartorial choices?” Jared Keller has a theory.
Is Snark On Its Way Out?
“From music to movies and late-night TV, earnestness seems to be everywhere in pop culture right now.”
Is This The World’s First Cyborg Artist?
“‘I can have phone calls to my head,’ says Neil Harbisson, sitting across the table from me. Dangling over his forehead is an antenna that curves up and over from the back of his skull. The device, which he calls an ‘eyeborg’, was recently upgraded, meaning his skull is now Bluetooth-enabled.”
Yes, These Are Tibetan Monks Break-Dancing
“This happened, people. You don’t need any more information.” But GlobalPost provides some nevertheless, along with video.
Crowdsourced Corporate Philanthropy Is Dead.
“What does it mean? Well, to me, it’s a depressing reminder of the tension that exists between corporate philanthropy and corporate goals.”
Brain Research Suggests Humiliation Is Our Most Powerful Emotion
Inspired by claims that humiliation is an unusually intense emotion, responsible even for war and strife in the world, the researchers have turned to brain-based evidence. They claim to have provided the “first empirical, neurocognitive evidence for long-standing claims in the humiliation literature that humiliation is a particularly intense emotion.”
Why Being A Psychopath Can Make You More Successful
“I wanted to debunk the myth that all psychopaths are bad. I’d done research with the special forces, with surgeons, with top hedge fund managers and barristers. Almost all of them had psychopathic traits, but they’d harnessed them in ways to make them better at what they do.”