Plenty of artists were furious when Kapoor negotiated exclusive rights to the new pigment Vantablack. Artist Stuart Semple did more than just complain: he’s created a super-fluorescent pink, and he’ll sell it to any and every artist but one.
Tag: 11.10.16
Hey Bay-Bay, What’s With The Cray-Zay Way So Many Pop Singers Sing The ‘Ee’ Sound?
Dan Nosowitz talked to linguists and voices coaches and eventually found a likely theory: It started out as a particular little trick of pop vocal technique and morphed into a way “to co-opt the signifiers of intensity.” (That’s not academic gobbledygook: when you get to that point in the article, it will make sense.)
Is Mel Gibson Redeeming Himself In Hollywood?
“It may be hard to believe at the moment, but there was a time in the US when spouting racist and misogynistic hate speech would damage your career, rather than propelling you to its highest office. Just ask Mel Gibson.”
Boston’s Museum Of Fine Arts Is Building A New $24M Conservation Center
There will be six labs on two floors, and the facility is expected to place the MFA among the top institutions for art conservation in the world.
Another Dopey Tourist Taking A Selfie Wrecks An Antique Statue
Poor Lisbon – this is the second time this year it’s happened there.
Poland’s World War II Museum Hasn’t Even Opened Yet, And It’s Already Become A Political Battleground
The museum, which has been under construction in Gdansk for five years and is supposed to open in January, was a project of the previous government, unseated last year by the right-wing Law and Justice Party. The new government, which controls funding, isn’t happy with the museum’s content.
Librarians In Philadelphia To Get Training As ‘Community Health Specialists’ – Because They’re Already Doing That Kind Of Work
Philly is the poorest of the country’s ten largest cities, and since the Free Library of Philadelphia is just that (free), it’s become a major resource for people who have almost none. Staffers have been helping residence connect with health-related services for some time – so now UPenn is starting a program to give those staffers training that will help.
Research Literature Is Growing Exponentially. Researchers Need Help. This New Search Engine Promises It
“Judging from the research papers already indexed by the new search engine, the volume of academic research is increasing at an exponential rate, and one independent study says that the number of papers is increasing about 4 or 5 percent a year, with 2.5 million published in 2014. That means researchers just don’t have the time to look through everything. They need some help.”
How Our Brains Fill In The Blanks Of Ambiguity To Create Beliefs
Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett: The structure of the brain is such that there are many more intrinsic connections between neurons than there are connections that bring sensory information from the world. From that incomplete picture, she says, the brain is “filling in the details, making sense out of ambiguous sensory input.” The brain, she says, is an “inference generating organ.” She describes an increasingly well-supported working hypothesis called predictive coding, according to which perceptions are driven by your own brain and corrected by input from the world. There would otherwise simple be too much sensory input to take in.
Poetry Isn’t Dying. Poets, On The Other Hand…
“Not only is it not endangered, it will outlast any number of species of living things on the face of the earth. It will only perish with our own. I worry about journalism. I don’t worry about Poetry. Being a poet is a more complicated matter.”