Most popular ideas about science and progress – and many scientists – ignore or gloss over the extent to which religious thought was crucial to the founding breakthroughs of modern science.
Tag: 11.04.14
Pianist Versus Critic, Round 3: Anne Midgette Says Dejan Lazic Has A Point
“I don’t agree that the review should be taken down. But I do think it’s worth discussing, in this evolving internet climate, the way that decisions are effectively made about what information clings to you and what falls away.”
Sylvie Guillem To Retire After Four-Decade Dance Career
“Guillem will bow out with a world tour called Life in Progress beginning in Modena, Italy, on 31 March … and ending in Tokyo in December. It will include two new works by Akram Khan and Russell Maliphant as well as a solo piece written for her by Mats Ek, called Bye.”
“Venerable But Vulnerable”: Chamber Orchestra Of Philadelphia At 50
“With its recent national tour with Branford Marsalis, 90-plus albums available on Amazon.com, and … its recently knighted music director, Dirk Brossé, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia would seem to have arrived at its landmark birthday … due for a well-earned victory lap.” But the group has been rumored to be in serious financial peril. Not quite, says CHoP’s new executive director.
Donald Saddler, Veteran Broadway Dancer and Choreographer, Dead At 94
Over a six-decade career, he danced in 1930s movie musicals, won Tony Awards for choreographing Wonderful Town and a revival of No, No, Nanette, and gave his final Broadway stage performance at age 80.
Is Banksy Really A Woman?
We really don’t know, after all. We know very little about hir (or hem) at all. But we do know that Banksy is a master (mistress?) of misdirection. Kriston Capps makes the case that “she could be anyone.” (Take that, Guerilla Girls!)
More Jian Ghomeshi Fallout As Publishers Cancel His Book
“[Penguin Random House’s] Viking Canada imprint released Ghomeshi’s bestselling memoir, 1982, in 2012. [A spokesperson] would not comment on what had been expected from his next book, and would only say that the decision was made ‘in light of recent events‘.”
Is The National Gallery Of Canada Preparing To Lock Out Workers?
That’s what the Public Service Alliance of Canada fears. “The museum’s management had previously scheduled two weeks of talks with the union for September, but canceled the negotiations the day they were due to begin … [and] then applied for conciliation, a provision that, per Canadian labor laws, would allow them to lock out the union workers beginning next month.”
“Team America: World Police” At 10: What Has And Hasn’t Changed
“Many of the issues that were both so consuming and combustible back in 2004 seem largely absent from [today’s] political terrain. … But, perhaps, nowhere is the gulf between then and now more evident than in the way we talk about America’s place in the world.” On the other hand, “a good part of what has changed is exactly what made the America of then, both left and right, so worthy of satire.”
An African Elephant And The Rise Of Hype-Driven Celebrity Culture
The sad story of Jumbo and P.T. Barnum.