The Prize for Medicine went to researchers who found that roller coaster rides could help dislodge kidney stones, while a Japanese gastroenterologist won a Medical Education Prize for performing a colonoscopy on himself while sitting. (He reported “Mild discomfort”.) The Chemistry Prize went to researchers who found that saliva worked better on 18th-century sculpture than alcohol-based cleaners, and researchers who found that workers did in fact relieve stress by sticking pins in voodoo dolls of their bosses won the Economics Prize.
Tag: 09.13.18
Documentarian Breaks Still-Strong Taboo: Filming The Moment Of Death
Steven Eastwood shot his feature film Island in a hospice on England’s Isle of Wight, where four patients allowed him to capture their final days and (actual) final breaths. “What’s interesting is there isn’t an image. You can’t see the dying. I think that’s fascinating, because to talk about how the film shows you the moment of death, I don’t know when that moment is. I’ve watched it over and over.”
A Year In The Life Of An Art Critic
“In which one writer, ARTnews Executive Editor Andrew Russeth, attempts to narrate life in the New York art world over the course of one full season, from September 2017 to September 2018, with brief forays to Miami, New Orleans, Basel, Buffalo, San Francisco, and a few other places. Along the way, countless exhibitions are visited, performances are witnessed, museum protests are reported on, art fairs are tolerated, and celebrations of various kinds are attended. Meanwhile, all sorts of surprises come in over the transom.”
On Cultivating The Inner Voice That Defines You
Do people in adulthood experience inner speech in the same way as children – or even as each other? Do most of us even have an inner voice – an internal commentator narrating our lives and experiences from one moment to the next?
What Are Orchestral Musicians For?
Musicians can, with the right management in place, identify not as “us vs them,” but as part of the big circle of the orchestra.
As It Turns 150, We Need To Talk About The Deep Weirdness And Complexity Of ‘Little Women’
The thing about Little Women was that it wasn’t telling girls and women to be “girly,” or that being independent – and fierce – was a bad thing. The book “was that unusual thing, a classic that is also an instant hit. It was wildly popular from the moment it was published, in two parts, starting in 1868. … The book was also revolutionary, in its way.”
Ira Sabin, Founder Of JazzTimes Magazine, Dies At 90
In 1962, he bought out a brother-in-law who had a record store, renaming it Sabin’s Discount Records. The store, at Ninth and U streets NW, was in the heart of Washington’s thriving jazz district, within walking distance of two theaters and six jazz clubs. The shop carried one of the country’s largest collections of jazz recordings, and musicians often stopped by to shop and chat.
Another Theatre Critic Gets Laid Off. The Field Of Criticism Has Changed
All of this comes at a time when there’s been an enormous proliferation in the number of other online outlets – whether personal or under umbrella sites – to fill the vacuum. But few do (or can) remunerate their contributors. So we’re rapidly seeing a new model for criticism emerging: one in which only hobbyists and retirees, or those who are financially independent, will be able to pursue a ‘career’ in the field. The arts world constantly talks up diversity as an aspiration; but this will inevitably lead to reduced diversity in the field of arts criticism.
Why It’s So Hard To Make A Movie About Lizzie Borden (And Why People Keep Doing It Anyway)
“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why the Borden murders still grip us. They’re unsolved, they’re grisly, … and they involve a very strange woman. … The problem with ‘reimagining’ the story of Ms. Lizzie Andrew Borden is that, by 2018, there is nothing new under the Fall River sun.”
So You Think You Own Those Movies And Music You Bought Online? Think Again
As outlined in the Twitter thread, Apple states the content provider of the movies in question removed them from the store. And that removed them from the user’s library, even though he had paid money to buy them. It’s easy to see why that’s frustrating (especially since Apple wasn’t willing to cough up a refund for the purchases he no longer has).