“Campaigners are free to scour their backer lists to see which uncle went cheap, which best friend ‘forgot’ to contribute and which former co-worker turned out to be surprisingly generous.” Then there’s the rise of crowdfunding consultants and the unedifying phenomenon of wealthy film and rock stars asking their fans for seed money.
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Visiting The West Bank’s Only Ballet School
“Shyreen Ziadeh runs a dance studio in Ramallah, in the Palestinian Territories. It’s not what she dreamed of doing, but it’s all she can imagine doing these days. She introduces ballet to youngsters, and gives them a refuge from everyday life.”
Ruins Of Ancient Cambodian City Discovered By Aerial Lasers
“The discoveries matched years of archaeological ground research to reveal Mahendraparvata, a lost mediaeval city where people lived on a mist-shrouded mountain called Phnom Kulen, 350 years before the building of the famous Angkor Wat temple complex in north-western Cambodia.”
Banksy Has Competition: Colorful Street Art Is Popping Up Across Southeast London
“Two graffiti artists have painted a series of bright murals on phone and electricity boxes across the area. The brightly coloured illustrations include depictions of local landmarks and references to iconic pieces of literature, such as The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.”
The Books High-Schoolers Read Are Getting Less Demanding
“Research shows that as young readers get older, they are not moving to more complex books. High-schoolers are reading books written for younger kids, and teachers aren’t assigning difficult classics as much as they once did.”
Joni Mitchell On Being Venerated
“Depends on the venerator. You know, I mean, in a certain way, honour died in World War II. You know, it just kinda died. Not very many people know how to do it anymore. If they honour you wrong, it makes you arrogant, because it stung. If they honour you right, it’s humbling because it’s inspiring.”
Are We Going Too Far In Training Single-Minded Young Ballet Dancers?
“Videos of sweet children dancing is one thing – but watching ever-younger kids attempt an adult art form is questionable.”
Esther Williams, 91, Aquatic Movie Star (And Godmother Of Synchronized Swimming)
“With her beauty, sunny personality and background as a champion swimmer, Williams shot to stardom in the 1940s in the ‘aqua musical,’ an odd sub-genre of films that became an enormous hit with the moviegoing mainstream, fanned popular interest in synchronized swimming and turned Williams into Hollywood’s Million Dollar Mermaid.”
Upheaval At South Florida’s Symphony Of The Americas After Spending Questioned
“When now-former board president Beth Holland and other symphony officials began questioning what they saw as financial irregularities, they were suddenly voted out in what they say was basically a board coup orchestrated by the symphony’s executive director, Renee LaBonte, and the long-time maestro, James Brooks-Bruzzese.”
Getting Computers To Learn Like A Child Does – By Recognizing Things
“Always seeing the world with fresh eyes can make it hard to find your way around. Giving computers the ability to recognise objects as they scan a new environment will let them navigate much more quickly and understand what they are seeing.”