Planning on listening to your next book? You might be missing out on some of the details that only print can provide.
Books are meant for reading
Submitted by Rhea Saran on January 28, 2006 - 12:17am. Artspy: Developments in the artsEmbarrasment for the pecksniffs, schadenfreude for the good guys
Submitted by Matthew A. Stern on January 27, 2006 - 9:26pm. Digital Right and Digital WrongsThe MPAA wants you to believe that file-sharing is putting Joe Average out of work - you've seen the commercials. In the mean time, they've been making unauthorized copies of Joe Average's movies.
Are rats laughing at us?
Submitted by Orli Van Mourik on January 27, 2006 - 4:55pm. Neurontic - Psychology for the Modern MindAnimal Personality, a burgeoning psychological school, subscribes to the theory that animals, like humans, are born with innate character traits, which are either magnified or diminished by their formative experiences.
Pet owners across the country, no doubt, greeted this news with a resounding “Duh.â€
McDonald's tomatoes
Submitted by Jennifer Huang on January 24, 2006 - 3:08pm. Food PoliticsCriticizing McDonald’s for turning a blind eye on the human rights abuses, Student/Farmworker Alliance urges the corporation to use its clout to fight the exploitation of agricultural workers.
Watching movies on the Web, the crime of Technology
Submitted by Alexis Dahan on January 24, 2006 - 12:10pm. Considerations on the 7th ArtThe art amateur is no longer taking the time to appreciate the work of art. You can put millions of mp3s onto your Ipod but how many of them will you really perceive and assess?
War games
Submitted by Amy M. Becker on January 24, 2006 - 11:01am. The War at HomeFor a virtual solider, injuries are nothing more than a small puff of blood.
The bells and whistles of New York Fashion Week
Submitted by Katharine Jones on January 24, 2006 - 9:34am. The Sport of FashionLets see if the actual fashion on parade can speak for itself
Mirror Neurons Revisited: The Theory of Mindblindness
Submitted by Orli Van Mourik on January 24, 2006 - 8:33am. Neurontic - Psychology for the Modern MindWhen scientists discovered the MNs formed what writer Sharon Begley calls the “neural basis of empathy," (How Mirror Neurons Help Us) theorists made a conceptual leap. Could hypersensitive people, like artists and depressives, have a surfeit of mirror neurons, they wondered? Quite possibly, as it turns out. What, then, would someone with a deficit look like? Well, they’d probably look a lot like autistics, according to psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen, of Cambridge University.
Buttercups in January
Submitted by Jennifer Huang on January 24, 2006 - 4:46am. Food PoliticsUnseasonably warm winters in localized regions of North America may be evidence of climate instability as a result of overall global warming. The rate of warming may have adverse effects on global vegetation and agriculture.
Corporate interests killed the video star
Submitted by Matthew A. Stern on January 24, 2006 - 4:02am. Digital Right and Digital WrongsSplicing and re-engineering pre-existing movie footage and creating an ersatz music video or an absurdist parody can provide a whole lot of entertainment for viewers and a whole lot of exposure for budding young artists. Some copyright holders, unfortunately, aren't overly concerned with art. What suffers as a result? Only the future of the internet as a venue to express creativity.
Reminders
Submitted by Amy M. Becker on January 24, 2006 - 2:31am. The War at HomeWhen I read Denise Grady’s Struggling Back From War's Once-Deadly Wounds in the Sunday Times, I realized that I had forgotten about the war.
Pending what we already know about the Academy Awards
Submitted by Alexis Dahan on January 23, 2006 - 10:37pm. Considerations on the 7th ArtAs every Oscar-predictions blog I have consulted in the last week announced, Brokeback Mountain will continue its raid on the award season by winning the Holy Grail on March 3rd. But...
Blatantly shallow and loving it
Submitted by Lauren Berger on January 23, 2006 - 10:09pm. The Unnatural BodyJust when you thought women's magazines couldn't get any more superficial, they bring us...Skin Deep
The hell-word
Submitted by Jacqueline Schneider on January 23, 2006 - 9:58pm. LGBTQ Media VisibilityDaniela Sea, the new genderqueer character Moira on the L word, is only the second out actress on the show. She lends the melodramatic series in its third season a shred of the street-cred that it was sorely lacking.
Ahmadinejad, Israel, and anti-Semitism
Submitted by Daniel L. Sorrell on January 23, 2006 - 9:18pm. Religion and the Public SphereWiping Israel “off the map†will do nothing for Iran’s future