A New Installment in a Tale of Human Experience
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Pina Bausch is still the model for the kind of experimental artist the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival hopes to introduce to New York audiences.
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In a world in which we arrive without choice, it is perhaps only fitting that all of us inevitably experience a weird melange of joy, sadness, boredom, health, sickness, love, loneliness, despondency
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Seeing the world' the digital way on Second Life.
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Sex, happiness, time, culture, exchange and mind. Money in all its guises.
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The remarkable show at the American Museum of Natural History allows us to glean something about how humanity struggles to make sense of the natural world.
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Real and mythological creatures mingle in the strange looking-glass world of two new museum exhibitions.
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural;  especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization.
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Mythical tales abound of a race of little people that dwell on the islands of Indonesia. Dutch explorers who colonized Flores 100 years ago were told stories of a human-like creature local
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Here's the painful story of someone who did.
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There&#39;s a new storm in the ranks of anthropologists who try to understand the long and puzzling history of human evolution by studying fossil evidence from millions of years ago.
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We go beyond the realm of ordinary earthly experience and explore the truly great accomplishments of one Alan Roger Hinman in alternative time lines. Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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A followup to my recent story    The Happiness Broker.
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UK and Swiss scientists find a way to trigger an out-of-body experience in healthy volunteers.
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This beautifully performed, touching one-act play is not quite the personalized cry against genocide that the playwright intends it to be.
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Grand lessons from grand larceny: An inspiring tale for today's youth.
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Life hardens us and art desensitizes us. Is the culture of violence turning us into creatures without empathy? Commentary by Tony Long.