“At times like these, philosophers are of limited use because when they have talked about dying they have tended to focus on what it means for the one who dies. … A much more useful philosophy would help us to prepare for the deaths of others. I have never been sure that philosophy does a good job of that. But perhaps a philosophical outlook can help us make sense of death when it comes close to us.”
Tag: 07.05.13
Why People Keep Pumping Money Into Slot Machines
“It turns out you can’t put all the blame on those complimentary cocktails. Newly published research suggests at least part of the answer involves the slot machine’s music and sound effects.”
What Drives Talent Migration
Using the lens of migration, I will describe how the economy has changed from an era of manufacturing to the celebrated age of innovation. I contend the Innovation Economy has peaked with the last financial crisis and global recession serving as a break. I call the emerging epoch the “Talent Economy.”
Defining A Ballerina
To some, an American ballerina has always been a virtual contradiction in terms.
Professor Reports Fewer Women Playwrights Now Than In The Past
“She estimated that around 8 – 12 per cent of today’s plays are written by women, compared with 18.4 per cent in 1923, 20.4 per cent in 1936, and 22 per cent in 1945.”
China’s Entertainment Industry Revenues Up 20 Percent Last Year
“The data is the latest official evidence of the strength of the mainland Chinese entertainment and media market and underlines the reasons why Hollywood is so keen to make waves in China.”
Dudley Knight, Innovative Theatre Teacher, 73
“The methods he developed at UC Irvine, where he began teaching in 1981, joining the faculty full time in 1985, made him something of an iconoclast. He criticized, and offered an alternative to, a classic approach for teaching actors to speak properly that was propounded by Edith Skinner, a legendary professor at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh (now Carnegie Mellon University) and the Juilliard School in New York City.”
LA Artists Debate City’s Mural Ban
“Some local artists who support the ordinance believe that street art will continue to flourish whether the City Council lifts the current ban.”
Tomb Robbers – Raid Of Italian Artifacts By Amateur Thieves
“In covering their tracks, the looters effectively wiped out the sort of information — the size of the tomb, the number of rooms, how the various urns and other artifacts were arranged — that scholars scour for information to reconstruct ancient civilizations.”
And Philadelphia Is Best Known For…
“Don’t get me wrong, Rocky and most of its sequels are great movies. But the fact that a fictional character is perceived as our only claim to fame is annoying, and worse, a source of ridicule.”