“A sheet of paper can bend, twist, and tear easily. But folded several times, it becomes stiff and can support objects many times its weight. That’s the basic idea behind ‘origami engineering,’ an emerging technique in structural engineering that’s based on a centuries-old Japanese art form.”
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Is Hearing Voices Necessarily A Sign Of Illness? Or Could It Sometimes Do Some Good?
“An increasing number of researchers and practitioners have gone from dismissing hallucinated voices as worthless ravings symptomatic of psychosis to listening carefully to what they say. What they have heard has been infinitely varied and surprisingly complex. And the effort to deal with these complexities is leading to entirely new, even inventive forms of treatment.”
What Are The Limits Of Culture When Hedda Gabler Starts Tweeting?
“The internet is clearly changing ideas around different art forms and how they are delivered and experienced – and where they are experienced – including pressing issues such as: how do you clap on Twitter?”
Andrew Litton To Depart As Colorado Symphony Music Director
“He’ll conduct his usual eight concerts this season starting Friday night, then shift into a new role as artistic adviser and principal guest conductor next year. That means he’ll lead just four concerts a year during the following two seasons, leaving him more time to carry out his duties as the recently hired music director of the New York City Ballet.”
The 20 Most-Produced Playwrights Of Last Season
American Theatre looked at 2,159 productions at 386 theatres. The gender breakdown on this list is 15 men, 4 women. Just 3 playwrights—Ayad Akhtar, August Wilson, and Dominique Morisseau—are non-white. Compared to last year’s Top 20 list—with 3 women to 17 men, and 4 playwrights of color—the trend lines are staying consistent, for better or worse).
On Creating A Company: Twyla Tharp Blogs The Final Rehearsals For Her 50th Anniversary Tour
“What makes a company? It is, like a good performance, greater than the sum of its parts. It brings together a wealth of experiences and commitments that create a single foundation. Tacitly expressed in the dancing is a guarantee to the audience that whatever goes down, there’s no need for panic because onstage we have your back.”
‘This Week, Hedda Gabler Will Die On Twitter’
“There will be no further Tweets from @Heddathruaglass where, over the last two years, Katherine Tozer has been tweeting every day in character charting Hedda’s life, latterly on her extended honeymoon with her husband in Europe. Over the last few days, the daily tweet has brought Hedda closer and closer to home and the point where Ibsen’s play begins.”
Walter Isaacson Turns Down Offer To Be Librarian Of Congress: Report
A source told Politico that the 63-year-old Isaacson – former chairman and CEO of CNN, former managing editor of Time, currently president of the Aspen Institute, and author of admired biographies of Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Kissinger, and Steve Jobs – was approached by the White House about the job and declined.
The Secret To Self-Confidence (And Stardom) Is Simply Hard Work, Says Mindy Kaling
“People talk about confidence without ever bringing up hard work. That’s a mistake. I know I sound like some dour older spinster on Downton Abbey who has never felt a man’s touch and whose heart has turned to stone, but I don’t understand how you could have self-confidence if you don’t do the work.”
Now That He’s Won A Nobel, Author Patrick Modiano Is Finally Catching On
Well, in America, we mean. “All told, 10 of his books have been published in the U.S. since the Nobel announcement last October. English translations of six more novels are due later this year and in 2016.” Here’s a Q&A with the 70-year-old French author.