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"He left [his] house, Shaw's Corner, and its contents to the National Trust complete with an enormous photographic collection of more than 20,000 prints, negatives and glass plates. These will become available for the first time to scholars and enthusiasts as the images are digitised and put online."...
"New research finds people's taste in entertainment remains remarkably consistent, regardless of whether they're reading, watching or listening."...
Scott Rosenberg: "You recall [Nicholas] Carr's statement that 'people who read hypertext comprehend and learn less, studies show, than those who read the same material in printed form.' Yet the studies he cites show nothing of the sort."...
At the American Computer Museum, "you'll still find all manner of models, machinery and accessories that most of us long ago, or only yesterday, relegated to the junk heap" - from the Gutenberg press through telegraphs and enormous telephone switchboards to the Apple I, vintage 1976....
"A team of psychologists used video footage of men strutting their stuff to pinpoint the killer moves that separate good dancers from bad. … The dancers were judged by 37 straight women, also aged 18 to 35."...
"Men today, want rich resonant vocals to impress their ladies. And those yearning for the baritone of choice are now heading to voice gyms. These gyms are full fledged fitness centres that monitor the use of vocal chords [sic]."...
"[P]laywrights have tended to find more creative potential in triangles where the bisexuality simmers unconsummated, expressed through a shared surrogate, or where it's the fantasy of an imagination haunted by the potential torture of double exclusion." Then there's Noël Coward's Design for Living....
Stealing from Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is not necessarily plagiarism. It can also be an experimental form of literature. Even a form of "beauty". This was the angry defence made by the best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq this week after allegations that he lifted passages of his latest book from Wikipedia.fr....
The Times seems to have a bias toward male authors. The question then becomes where the bias comes from. Is it unconscious? But the question might be more complicated. Is the Times slighting books by women because those books are more likely to fall under the category of "commercial fiction," a category that critics are alleged to routinely ignore?...
"Daley's cultural pronouncements are rarely adorned with Shakespearean eloquence. But it's hard to think of another American government official who has stepped out so far, and so often, in support of the arts as the lynchpin of a vibrant, modern city."...