“He thinks that the Arts Council is wasteful and will be looking for a significant cut in the amount it spends on administration. Such a cut looks like an easy win on paper, but how do you make informed investments and rigorously monitor them without specialist personnel overseeing the process?”
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Round 428,972: Science V. Religion
“Unlike the old science-religion war, this battle is going to be fought not in the courts but in the arena of public opinion. The new war pits those who argue that science and “moderate” forms of religion are compatible worldviews against those who think they are not.”
Will The iPad Fuel Illegal Book-Filesharing?
“It is unlikely that there will be a way to scan books so easily at home anytime soon, but what about sharing e-books themselves? If Apple makes its iBooks app available on the Mac or PC, then copying an entire book, even if protected by DRM, will be as simple as automating screenshots of pages and sending them to an OCR (optical character recognition) program. Only a single copy of a book will need to be pirated thusly and it will then be compromised forever.”
Duke Ellington And Race In America
Racism played a big part in Ellington’s career. “What was he thinking? What did he feel about–what did he contribute to–the mire of American race relations during the last century?”