Nearly 70% of its 80 full-time students can’t afford to pay their tuition, which comes to about $13 USD per month, according to an official DCMA press release. While the school has received support over the years from international donors and diplomatic missions, they face a gap in funding that may force them to shut their doors at the historic Old Customs House. – Global Voices
Tag: 09.22.19
Let’s Face It: Book Publishing Has A Serious Fact-Checking Problem
“In the past year alone, errors in books by several high-profile authors … have ignited a debate over whether publishers should take more responsibility for the accuracy of their books. … While in the fallout of each accuracy scandal everyone asks where the fact checkers are, there isn’t broad agreement on who should be paying for what is a time-consuming, labor-intensive process in the low-margin publishing industry.” – The New York Times
How Economists Turned Everything In Our Culture Into Markets
Together, between the late 1960s and the 2008 financial crisis, they tore down the model of activist government intervention in the economy and replaced it with the simple idea that markets should be left on their own. In the process, they made economics the dominant explanatory framework of our time, commonly rolled out to account for matters from criminal sentencing to the dating “market.” – Washington Post
Burnishing Bertoldo: The Frick Spotlights Donatello’s Pupil/Michelangelo’s Teacher
Bertoldo di Giovanni, a favorite of Lorenzo de’ Medici and now the subject of a compact but comprehensive Frick Collection survey, is a Florentine sculptor who has been overshadowed by his more illustrious teacher (Donatello) and revered pupil (Michelangelo). – Lee Rosenbaum
Bob Iger, Hollywood’s “God King”
“In a town where everyone is always filleting everyone else, Mr. Iger floats above it all, cosseted in what some call a “a cult of nice.” He may own most of the box office, but he is shielded from schadenfreude because the people who would ordinarily begrudge him are happy that someone was able to assail the unassailable Netflix, and rescue the spirit of Old Hollywood from the takeover of the deep-pocketed tech giants.” – The New York Times
The Next Evolution In The Art Gallery Model?
“The disruption in the art world is not going to come from the Internet, it’s not going to come from business-people. It’s coming from the artists. The artists are going to change the model of how they engage with the public. Changes are coming.” – The Daily Beast
Actor Aron Eisenberg, Who Took A Joke Character And Imbued Him With Full Humanity On Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Has Died At 50
Eisenberg’s character Nog was supposed to be a joke, like all of the Ferengi. But Eisenberg helped change all of that. (And here’s a Twitter thread that explains it more beautifully than a news report ever could.) – CNN
The Science Of Attraction Actually Does Make Two Hearts Beat As One
How can that be real? Chemistry, biology, physics … “The real measure of whether two people hit it off is how much they synchronise internal bodily functions, like heart rate and sweating.” – New Scientist
The Biggest Surprises, And Snubs, Of The Emmys
Well, let’s start with the snubbing of Veep and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, but there were others. (Here’s the complete list of winners, too.) – Variety
Michelle Williams Wins An Emmy And Uses It To Stump For Equal Access And Pay For Women Of Color
Williams, who won for playing Gwen Verdon in Fosse/Verdon, said, “The next time a woman — and especially a woman of color, because she stands to make 52 cents on the dollar compared to her white, male counterpart — tells you what she needs in order to do her job, listen to her. Believe her. Because one day she might stand in front of you and say thank you for allowing her to succeed because of her workplace environment and not in spite of it.” – The New York Times