“Two years ago, a study of the differences between male and female brains caused a storm. The researchers, based at the University of Pennsylvania, claimed to have found that, from adolescence onwards, men’s brains have more connections within each hemisphere, whereas women’s brains have more cross-connections between the hemispheres.” Well, they’ve updated their findings.
Tag: 08.26.15
Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.26.15
Adjaye in Play? What’s Behind Worldwide Search for Obama Center’s Architect?
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-08-26
Jaki Byard And Musique du bois
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-08-26
Snapshot: Bette Davis and Bert Lahr on The Hollywood Palace
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-08-26
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What Ails Orchestra Thinking
“Something that became very clear to me soon after becoming Managing Director was that the apparent sense of harmony and collective excellence on-stage was not always evident in the interactions of the musicians with each other off-stage or with management.”
Finally – An App That Might Make Learning Easier
“As the system learns more about a student, it can automatically recommend the pieces of content that are most likely to help that student improve. In other words, it lifts the burden of those decisions off of the teacher.”
Why The BBC Needs To Be Saved
“When the media, communications and information industries make up nearly 8% our GDP, larger than the car and oil and gas industries put together, we need to be heard, as those industries are heard. But when I see the panel of experts who’ve been asked by the culture secretary to take a root and branch look at the BBC, I don’t see anyone who is a part of that cast and crew list. I see executives, media owners, industry gurus, all talented people – but not a single person who’s made a classic and enduring television show.”
What People REALLY Read On The Privacy Of Their Own E-Book Readers
A newly published list of Amazon.co.uk’s biggest selling e-books of the year features psychological thrillers, misery memoirs, Mills and Boon and a book by the Tory MP Nadine Dorries, whose first work was memorably described by a Telegraph reviewer as “the worst novel I’ve read in 10 years”.
Ten Agatha Christie Plays Discovered
The ten plays – five full-length and five one-act works – were discovered by producer Julius Green while researching a book about the author’s work in theatre. He heralded the find as a “forgotten piece of theatre history”.