“Doctors-in-training who took art classes while in medical school appear to have better skills of observation than their colleagues who have never studied art, according to a research from Harvard Medical School. They released research last week that shows studying art can help students make up to 38 per cent more accurate observations.”
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The Cones Of Philadelphia – Why Collectors Collect
“The Cone Sisters of Baltimore: Collecting at Full Tilt is a fascinating narrative that brings the sisters to life as individuals. Yet their motivation, beyond an obvious love of art (and where did that come from, one wonders), remains elusive. Perhaps this is the natural order with many collectors. Perhaps they don’t intellectualize their passion in a way that translates readily to speech or writing.”
Opera’s Shakespeare Problem
“When composers have tried to set Shakespeare, they have run up against the problem that his verse creates music in the mind, next to which even the most inspired efforts may be found wanting. Nonetheless, the number of Shakespeare operas runs well into the hundreds.”
Broadway To Be Hit Hard By Economy Slowdown?
“Producers report some investors would now rather hold onto their money rather than pony up for a risky Rialto show, and many worry that the usual September downturn in ticket sales will be particularly brutal this year. But others in the industry respond that the economy is only one factor among several to consider — and even a downturn can have a silver lining.”
The End Of Internet Radio? (Pandora Endangered)
Pandora — practically the poster child for online radio — says it will shut down if royalty rates enacted in March of 2007 are not altered soon.
What If You Could (Literally) Capture Dancers’ Energy?
“A new technology developed by the environmental innovation lab Enviu takes advantage of the vast amount of energy expended by revellers as they throw themselves around the dance floor. When you dance, you generate energy by the shaking of the ground. What we do, very simply, is to capture the movement of dancing people and transform it into energy.”
Tensions Build As Actors’ Union Fails to Get New Contract
SAG leaders have so far been unwilling to do so, or to seek the authorization of members to call a strike. Many industry watchers doubt SAG could muster the 75 percent majority needed to back a walkout, in part because of lingering fatigue from the writers strike.
Truth In Promoting – My New Album Sucks
Why is it that pop musicians are so rarely honest about the quality of their latest album? Surely they know when they didn’t do a good job. And just as assuredly, they understand we’re on to them…
Architecture That Saves Energy Now
“While politicians and lobbyists debate massive, years-long investments to increase North American energy supplies, Dockside Green dramatically cuts energy use now. Conservation and efficiency have generally been treated condescendingly in the U.S. energy debate, like the bright but annoying student whose hand always shoots up first.”
I hate When Movies Steal My Favorite Books
“Can there be anything worse than lovingly engaging with a couple of hundred thousand words of prose over perhaps two or three weeks, drinking in the author’s dialogue and descriptions, creating your own vision of the work in the privacy of your head, only to have every man and his dog (special offer on Tuesdays at your local Odeon) blast your intellectual ownership of the book out of the water after spending 90 minutes slobbing out in front of a cinema screen?”