“While it might take you a full second to notice something out of the corner of your eye, turn your head toward it, recognize it and respond to it, the same reaction to a new or sudden sound happens at least 10 times as fast.”
Tag: 11.09.12
Canada, At Long Last, Becomes Cool (In The Cultural Sense, Not The Climatic One)
“Of course, Canada has been responsible for supplying the U.S. with its leading men and oddball comedians for decades, but at the moment it seems like we’re in the middle of a paradigm shift, in which Canada, long considered the U.S.’s boring, denim-wearing neighbor, has become America’s leading purveyor of cool.”
New York City Opera Works To Salvage Waterlogged Archives
“New York City Opera’s music library was ‘totally ruined’ by flooding from Hurricane Sandy, but the company’s archival material, going back 60 years, can be salvaged, a spokeswoman said on Friday.”
Violin Dealer Dietmar Machold Gets Six Years In Prison
“A dealer in rare Stradivarius violins coveted by the world’s top violinists was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison for embezzlement after his glittering global empire crumbled.”
Capturing All (Or At Least A Lot) Of Contemporary India In A Dozen New Plays
April de Angelis of London’s Royal Court Theatre: “Staying with us [in a Maharashtra guest house] were 12 Indian writers whose work we’d read but had not yet met. It was an exciting, curious, daunting moment: in three months we would be expecting them to deliver 12 new plays, and in some senses that depended as much on us as them.”
Oliver Sacks Wants To Destigmatize Hallucinations
“I think there’s a common view, often shared by doctors, that hallucinations denote madness – especially if there’s any hearing of voices. I hope I can defuse or de-stigmatise this a bit.” After all, the superstar neurologist has had a few himself.
Golden Hoard: Ancient Thracian Treasure Found In Bulgaria
“Bulgarian archaeologists unearthed ancient golden artifacts, including bracelets with snake heads, a tiara with animal motifs and a horse head piece during excavation works at a Thracian tomb in northern Bulgaria.”
One More Episode! (But Where Has The Great Sci-Fi On TV Gone?)
SyFy: You may be producing some Battlestar Galactica prequels, but why aren’t you doing anything else interesting?
The Short, Beautiful History Of Instant Photography
“For quite a few young people, an event undocumented is an event unlived. It’s easy to forget that a lifetime ago, in the late 1940s, almost nobody did this.”
Yes, We Are Living Through A Revolution
“My generation has seen a transformation in the world of letters unequalled since the days of Gutenberg. What’s more, it has happened at warp speed.”