“Beheading, believe it or not, was a privilege reserved usually for the aristocracy, for gentlemen and gentlewomen. Now, I don’t want you to get the idea that these were weekly events in Henry’s England; it’s because beheadings were rare that they made such a terrible impact on the imagination of the close circle around Henry.”
Tag: 11.26.12
Canadian Rep Theatre To Be Reborn In Toronto
“Ousted Toronto theatre director Ken Gass has unveiled plans for relaunching his long-dormant Canadian Rep Theatre with productions of plays pulled from the Factory Theatre during a boycott.”
How To Make Symphony Orchestras More Relevant?
“Would the symphony orchestra be better off if it somehow could be sequestered from such outside concerns as politics and money – the greatest idealization of humanity cut off from humanity itself?”
The Next Industrial Revolution: Connecting To Our Machines
“The Industrial Internet leverages the power of the cloud to connect machines embedded with sensors and sophisticated software to other machines (and to us) so we can extract data, make sense of it and find meaning where it did not exist before.”
Trend: Local TV News Becoming Less “Local”
“The striking thing about this news wasn’t so much that at least a dozen stations in cities large and small all carried the same lightweight story about restaurants cooking up candidate-inspired drinks and dishes (hence, “salty”). It was that at least a dozen stations carried the identical script, with a dozen anchormen and women rendering the same words.”
Did Minnesota Orchestra Management Actually Cook The Books?
Robert Levine: “There are really only two possibilities. One is that the board essentially covered up the ‘internal reality of deficits in 2009 and 2010’ in order to make its financial condition look better to the state than it actually was. The other is that the deficits of 2011 and 2012 were equally phony in order to bolster the board’s case ‘to reset the business model’ … But either possibility means the board misled the public, the state, its donors, and its employees.”
Historians Should Cut Steven Spielberg Some Slack Over Lincoln
Kevin M. Levin: “After so much research, we historians look for complexity and a certain attention to detail that reflects a careful consideration of the past. I certainly did this while watching Lincoln, but at the same time, we would do well to remember that when we watch films about other subjects, we’re able to set aside that kind of analysis and respect the filmmaker’s creative decisions.”
John Calvin Versus The Hipsters!
Hipster-hatred is really nothing more than the current iteration of an irony-versus-sincerity battle that stretches right back to the Protestant Reformation (and maybe even to Diogenes and Aristotle).
Link Between Creativity And Dishonesty?
“In a study conducted by a research team led by psychologist Melanie Beaussart of California State University, San Bernardino, people who behaved ethically also scored lower in creativity.”
On The Internet, Porn Dwarfs Everything Else
“Xvideos, the largest porn site on the web with 4.4 billion page views per month, is three times the size of CNN or ESPN, and twice the size of Reddit.”