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The idea that that’s what’s driving this strikes me as completely wrong. I mean, first of all, there’s a lot of people grateful that it’s getting covered. Second of all, people forget this- these protests started within minutes and hours of the death of Mike Brown and they started on the street on which Mike…
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Fortunately, there’s one skill that you can use to prepare yourself for the new economy. Self-education. It’s the ability to educate yourself using the Internet. In fact, the ability to learn anything on your own is so important, I believe it is the single most important determinant of future success. The Future of Education is…
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blakegopnik: THE DAILY PIC: Today, I begin a Koons-o-rama. Once a week for the next little while, the Daily Pic will visit and revisit the almost-perfect Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. I have huge respect for my fellow critics who feel that Koons is nothing more than…
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failedprojects: I ONCE HAD the pleasure of hearing a historically informed performance of a Bach sonata played on an organ made by master builder John Brombaugh. Brombaugh organs are tuned in what is called unequal temperament. It is a bizarrely little-known fact, but today’s tuning standard, equal temperament, is a relatively modern system. To hear…
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There’s no right answer; but there is some evidence of what most people do in practice, much of it quoted by Elkins in a 2010 essay on the Huffington Post. In summary, if museum-goers are eating oranges, they’re eating them bloody fast. The Louvre says that the average visitor looks at the Mona Lisa for…
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Using a paradigm consisting of one messy room and one tidy room, and a series of trials, Vohs concluded that messy rooms provoke more creative thinking – and provided scientific evidence! The next question is, what exactly constitutes “creative thinking,” and how will your pig sty of a room help? Creative thinking, in its purest…