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Einstein vs. The Clash: How I Used Music to Hack My Brain

April 28, 2017

CNET - I'm being tested to see how my concentration changes when I listen to different music. A brainwave scanner is strapped to my forehead and I'm listening to the staccato strains of "This Is Radio Clash". A...

Can Facebook solve its violent video problem?

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April 28, 2017

Art and Technology

CNET - When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage last week to make his biggest speech of the year, he did something he probably wasn't expecting to do just a few days earlier: He acknowledged Facebook's ...

From surveillance to racism, how computer games tackle big issues

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April 28, 2017

Art and Technology

DW - A waste of time? Not anymore. Today's computer games have become much more. Whether they deal with state surveillance or racism, the nominees for the German Computer Game Prize show what gaming is capable ...

Three Ways the 1973 Scull Sale Changed the Art Market

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April 28, 2017

Art and Culture, Art Market, Auctions

Artsy - Many common complaints about today’s contemporary art market—the billions of dollars sloshing around the market, the spectacle-driven fairs, the speculators and profit-seekers buying up works by young a...

The Army That Conquered the World

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April 28, 2017

Art and Culture, Art History

BBC - In March 1974, Yang Zhifa, a farmer, along with his five brothers and their neighbour Wang Puzhi, were digging a well in pomegranate and persimmon fields an hour’s bus ride northeast of Xi’an, capital of ...

The Eerie Historical Visions that Predict the Apocalypse

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April 28, 2017

Art and Culture

BBC - “These stunningly vivid pictures must certainly have imparted to those readers first seeing them a sense of awe at the progression of disasters and wonders from the beginning of history to the end of time...

The Art Movement Lost to History

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April 28, 2017

Art and Culture

BBC - Impressionism changed everything. Born of defiance and a rejection of tired traditions, the collective visions of Monet and Manet, Morisot and Renoir, Pissarro and Sisley became (and remain to this day) m...

Iraqi forces retake damaged Hatra heritage site from IS

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April 28, 2017

Archeology, Trending

DW - Iraqi pro-government militias announced on Wednesday that they had wrested control of historic Hatra from radical Sunni "Islamic State" (IS) militants, who had previously inflicted grave damage to the anci...

Frieze New York gets reframed for the post-truth era

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April 28, 2017

Art Fairs, Trending

The Art Newspaper - Reflecting director Victoria Siddall’s aim that Frieze, true to its editorial roots, should be “a place where art is made, discussed and debated”, there will be protest in the air when the f...

Tate Modern, Hepworth Wakefield and John Soane’s museum shortlisted for Art Fund’s Museum of the Year award

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April 28, 2017

Museum News, Trending

The Art Newspaper - The Art Fund’s Museum of the Year shortlist has been announced with the Lapworth Museum of Geology in Birmingham; the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing & Sporting Art, Newmarket; ...

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