Scientists have found that reading increases attention span, because “there’s no jumping around.” Also, because the sensory neurons that fire during an activity also fire when you are thinking about that activity, reading increases empathy.
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The goal: to copyright every single combo in order to give it to the public so musicians and artists can use melodies without worrying about copyright issues down the line.
The algorithm created by the two programmer-musicians can put together every single 8-note, 12-beat melody combo. According to Riehl, the algorithm can generate 300,000 melodies per second. In order for these melodies to be copyrighted, they must be created as a work. So, the algorithm outputs MIDI files of the melodies to a hard drive.
Disney-owned Hotstar, India’s largest on-demand video streaming service with more than 300 million users, has blocked the newest episode of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” that was critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The move has angered many of its customers ahead of Disney+’s launch in one of the world’s largest entertainment markets next month.
In the episode, aired hours before U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to India, Oliver talked about some of the questionable policies enforced by the ruling government in India and recent protests against “controversial figure” Modi’s citizenship measures. The 19-minute news recap and commentary sourced its information from credible news outlets.
India is a Hindu supremacist regime that terrorizes minority Muslims and others.
In 1911 Swedish production company Svenska Biografteatern captured black and white footage of life on the streets of New York City.
After Guy Jones slowed down the footage to a “natural rate and added in sound for ambiance,” he posted the footage to YouTube in 2018. That video has been played over 8.7 million times.
Denis Shiryaev performed his magic to further restore and colourized it »
Footage posted by Guy Jones »
Be a Lady They Said
Words: Camille Rainville
Narrator: Cynthia Nixon
Director: Paul McLean
Music: Louis Souyave
Post: Mini Content
Producer: Claire Rothstein
Special thanks to Alicia Lombardini and Luke Glover
British director Nick Bennett ‘s latest film is a portrait of Wales-based studio potters James and Tilla Waters, at work in their Carmarthenshire studio.
Even after accounting for a wide range of other health and social factors, researchers from University College London found that people over 50 who regularly engaged with arts activities were 31% less likely to die during a 14-year follow-up than peers with no art in their lives.
Those who took part in arts-related activities only once or twice a year still had 14% lower odds of dying during the study.
“These findings support previous statistical analyses and anthropological work suggesting there may be benefits of the arts to individuals as they age,” said Daisy Fancourt, an associate professor of psychobiology and epidemiology at University College London and co-author of the study.
Follow the link for The Guardian’s pick of the best books since 2000.
Their Top 10 are »
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (2009)
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2004)
- Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich (2013), translated by Bela Shayevich (2016)
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
- Austerlitz by WG Sebald (2001), translated by Anthea Bell (2001)
- The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (2000)
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
- Autumn by Ali Smith (2016)
- Cloud Atlas David Mitchell (2004)
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2006)
Helter-skelter is a decent description of the force from which economists believe ideas emerge. When people live close to one another, rather than close to the land, they hatch plans, they trade services, they discuss terrible ideas until they eventually arrive at good ones.
This is more or less what happens at Burning Man, too. But other cities have become symbols of greed and consumption, Mr. Roger said. And that greed is killing our Earth Mother.
“I think I have some of the same anxieties, but I’m coming to the view that it’s the market which is the danger, not the city,” Mr. Romer said.
“I’m afraid economists have really been serious contributors to this problem. This whole ideology of ‘government is bad, government is the problem’ has I think provided cover for rich people and rich firms to take advantage of things for their selfish benefit.”
He has been trying to figure out how to atone for that. As Mr. Romer’s conversation with Mr. Roger took on the air of a therapy session, I got the impression that he had also come to the desert to work through his angst with economics.
Mr. Roger, sympathetic, poured him his first taste of kombucha.
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