(Bar None) It’s the rare artist that puts forth their best album nearly a dozen years in. Working alongside producer Mo Troper, Diners’ project leader Blue Broderick delivers her best album yet on her Bar None Records debut, DOMINO. Ten songs of nostalgia-laced bubblegum pop rush by in under thirty minutes. Chock full of hook-filled … Read moreMusic Review: DOMINO – Diners
While many creatures in this comic bestiary represent specific people, others appear to satirize broader nineteenth-century types. The authors claim that Audubon, for instance, overlooked the Jail Bird, a trickster that is “often taken by hand to be confined in a cage, under the vain hope that it may learn to change its tune”. In … Read moreThe Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851)
AI could propel the biggest transformation in the history of medicine, says physician-scientist Eric Topol. He explains how sophisticated AI models can interpret medical images as well or better than human experts can — and, beyond that, even pick up things that human eyes can’t see. Learn all the ways AI is poised to make … Read moreCan AI catch what doctors miss? | Eric Topol
Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge… It can tell us when we’re being lied to. It provides a mid-course correction to our mistakes. Carl Sagan, who would have been 88 today, on science as an instrument of democracy. source
Each source institution also has its own dedicated page on the site, linked to from the table, which communicates all the aforementioned information relating to rights. In addition, there are, if relevant, links provided to the digital collections area of the source’s own website, and to their pages on aggregators such as Internet Archive or … Read moreThe Presentation of Sources and Rights Labelling Gets a Big Overhaul
Killing Joke “Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian, airs 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern every Sunday on Sirius XM satellite radio’s 1st Wave (Channel 33). The most recent two episodes are also available to subscribers to stream via the Sirius XM app. HOUR 1Bauhaus, “Stigmata Martyr” (In the Flat … Read morePlaylist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (12/10/23)
Before 2007, more people lived in rural areas than in cities. Since then, humans have become more geographically concentrated, and many cities have grown in size as people have flocked to them. But some animal species have long lived in close quarters this way and for the same kinds of reasons that people do, such … Read more10 Surreal Cities Inhabited by Animals
The authors find that women, as a group, experienced gender-based disadvantage across the key creative roles of opera production, but particularly in the artistic leadership roles of conductor and director. The authors also find that women’s exclusion in the field is being further perpetuated by the sector’s non-standard and overlapping employment structures, which impacts women … Read moreUnequal opera-tunities: gender inequality and non-standard work in US opera production
Fraktur has its origins in folk art traditions from Alsace, Switzerland, and the Rhineland, but in America it became more colorful, elaborate, and freehand, and far more apt to dominate the script it sought to embellish. The genre’s golden age was the period between 1790 and 1830 — a time when the American religious context … Read moreFraktur Folk Art (ca. 1750–1820)
(Secretly Canadian) If there’s one constant in Cherry Glazerr’s vigorous alt-rock through the years, it’s Clementine Creevy never sounding like she needs to apologize. To describe it in simpler terms: her musical project oozes raw power. But something’s changed in Creevy’s fifth album. While there are raucous barnburners like Touched You With My Chaos and … Read moreMusic Review: I Don't Want You Anymore – Cherry Glazerr