“We wanted to find out if one could communicate directly between two people by reading out the brain activity from one person and injecting brain activity into the second person, and do so across great physical distances by leveraging existing communication pathways.”
Tag: 09.03.14
Can A Nearly $1 Million Gift Save Sacramento Philharmonic And Opera?
“The philharmonic merged with the Sacramento Opera last year to form the Sacramento Region Performing Arts Alliance. The opera will also not present concerts in the fall, and both organizations may not present any concerts in the spring of 2015.”
The Ten Most Politically Controversial TV Shows In History
“‘A slanderous farce.’ No, not The Great British Bake Off‘s ‘bincident’, but Pyongyang’s response to Channel 4’s newly announced 10-part drama Opposite Number, about a British scientist captured in North Korea. … It wouldn’t be the first fictional TV show to create a political firestorm …” (includes video clips)
An Elizabethan Playhouse In Poland (Just Like The One There 400 Years Ago)
The creation of the €22.5 million Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre “was inspired by a playhouse built in Gdansk in the 17th century for English Shakespearian actors, and [it] will now host the city’s annual Shakespeare festival.”
Designing Technology That Lies To Us
“If you don’t know it already, you should: Many crosswalk and elevator door-close buttons don’t actually work as advertised. … Similarly, the progress bars presented on computer screens during downloads … maintain virtually no connection to the actual amount of time left … But these examples offer only a hint of what we’re liable to see in the near future. … Perhaps now is a good time to ask: How deceitful should our new technologies be?”
Frederick Wiseman Is Moving From Ballet Documentaries To Creating An Actual Ballet
As part of his residency at NYU’s new Center for Ballet and the Arts, Wiseman and choreographer James Sewell are collaborating on a stage work based on – no, not his dance documentaries, but his 1967 fim Titicut Follies, about the Bridgewater State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Massachusetts.
Study: Few Brits Are Exposed To Theatre When They’re Young
“Results of the first wave of a ‘tracking study’ conducted by King’s College London’s Culture and Major Events Consortium, commissioned by KCL as part of its Culture at King’s programme, showed that 46% of respondents went to the theatre as children, compared with 86% who went to libraries and 75% who visited museums and art galleries.”
Why Has The BBC Been Editing New Music Out Of Its Proms Broadcasts?
Prominent figures from the classical music world have united to condemn the excision of new music from the televised Proms. Susanna Eastburn, the chief executive of Sound and Music, the national agency for new music, said it was “a policy-by-implication which assumes that audiences won’t like new music, and that it’s not valued by the BBC”.
Is The Internet Changing How Our Brains Work?
“Part of the difficulty with discussing the effects of Internet use is that there are many ways to use the Internet, and there are many ways for it to have an effect – from how we conduct our relationships to how we think, to how our brains are wired up.”
Oldest-Known Neanderthal Art Discovered (But Is It Really Art?)
“The engraved lines found on Gibraltar are said to be 40,000 years old, making them older than the the oldest-known cave paintings by Homo sapiens,which can be seen in the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave in southern France. It certainly seems that the capacity for symbolic thought is not unique to Homo sapiens, but do the incised lines of Gibraltar really prove a capacity for advanced thought? Can we call them “art” at all?”