Overall, a slim plurality of Americans, 49%, believes earning a four-year degree will lead to a good job and higher lifetime earnings, compared with 47% who don’t, according to the poll of 1,200 people taken Aug. 5-9. That two-point margin narrowed from 13 points when the same question was asked four years earlier.
Tag: 09.05.17
MIT Opens Its First Full-Fledged Theater Building
“The urgent need for a new, purpose-built theater space became clear when MIT Theater’s home in the 19th-century Rinaldi tile factory had to be demolished as the Kendall Square redevelopment began in 2016. … Other functions of the theater program were scattered around campus – in Kresge Auditorium, the Walker Memorial, and Buildings 4 and 10. W97 [as the new building is called] both replaces the Rinaldi facilities and consolidates all the other theater activities under one roof.”
So Many Of Freud’s Ideas Have Been Superseded (Or Debunked). So Why Is He Still So Popular?
“Although Freudian theories are no longer a part of mainstream science, Freud is still incredibly well-known, a figure with name recognition on par with Shakespeare. Just think of how his theories have entered into the contemporary vernacular: Mommy and Daddy issues. Phallic symbols. Death wishes. Freudian slips. Arrested development. Anal retentiveness.Defense mechanisms.“
How The Internet Of Things Is Beginning To Own Us
“One key reason we don’t control our devices is that the companies that make them seem to think – and definitely act like – they still own them, even after we’ve bought them. A person may purchase a nice-looking box full of electronics that can function as a smartphone, the corporate argument goes, but they buy a license only to use the software inside. The companies say they still own the software, and because they own it, they can control it. It’s as if a car dealer sold a car, but claimed ownership of the motor. This sort of arrangement is destroying the concept of basic property ownership.”
The Art Of Censorship WIthout Leaving Fingerprints
The art of controlling speech while avoiding the appearance of doing so has lasted through the ensuing decades. In the 2000s, explicit instructions went out to provincial officials that they avoid putting any censorship or blacklisting into writing. To kill an article, officials should get on the telephone and instruct editors orally. Similarly, serious speech-crime offenders—people being sent to prison for years—were charged under face-saving euphemisms: tax evasion, fraud, even “blocking traffic,” or simply “picking quarrels.”
Understanding America Through The Lens Of McDonald’s
“I found myself in McDonald’s a lot because of the friends I made: people who were homeless, addicts. Eventually I found myself going not only because they were there, but for the same reasons that they went. It was a place I could sit and get a moment of respite. I could charge my computer and my phone, use the wi-fi, use the bathrooms, and the food and coffee were cheap and good. And I started noticing how strong the community in each McDonald’s was.”
In Defense Of ‘Confederate’, HBO’s Planned If-The-South-Won-The-Civil-War Series
When the planned series was announced, the backlash came quickly. Roxane Gay called it “slavery fan fiction,” and many observers argued that, post-Charlottesville, as one put it, “we’ve already seen episode one of Confederate.” Yet, as Gavriel D. Rosenfeld reminds us, there have already been several Civil War counterfactuals, and they’re by no means all apologias for the Confederacy.
How A 17th-Century Naval Engineer Revolutionized Set Design
Here’s the story of Giacomo Torelli, whose “pole-and-chariot” devices made the spectacular stage effects of Baroque theater and opera possible.
What Jane Austen Has To Offer Straight Guys
William Deresiewicz, who began his career as an Austen scholar, has spent his adult life dealing with people’s surprise (if not more) at his choice of specialty. “Men, in particular, would get this look in their eyes, as if to say, ‘What’s wrong with you, dude?'”, while women often seemed to act as if he was intruding into a domain that was theirs (in a way that, say, George Eliot or Virginia Woolf or the Brontës are not). Here Deresiewicz considers what it is about Austen that would make women feel so possessive, what makes an Austen hero sexy, and how her novels taught him “how to be a better man.”
The Next Show From The Folks Behind ‘Sleep No More’ Will Be Six Hours Long, Performed For Two People At A Time
Kabeiroi, which the company Punchdrunk says is a “theatrical adventure” inspired by the surviving fragments of Aeschylus’s play of that name, will require each pair of audience members (no singletons allowed) to travel to various venues around London (transit fare not included) and spend much of the time outdoors and/or on their feet. Warning: “This production is not suitable for women at any stage of pregnancy [or] individuals who are claustrophobic or have a nervous disposition.”