Selfie-Crazed Visitors Can’t Resist Touching the Art at Yayoi Kusama’s Show in Indonesia
Where Yayoi Kusama goes, Instagram-crazed fans follow, and Indonesia’s new Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Musuem MACAN)…
History Is a Quantitative Science II
While I am certainly very grateful to the team of authors of Lead pollution recorded in Greenland ice indicates European…
Political correctness: a force for good? A Munk Debate
The resolution? “What you call political correctness, I call progress…” On May 18th, the redoubtable Stephen Fry (self-admitted soft leftie)…
History Is Now a Quantitative Science
When I started 20 years ago on the research direction that eventually became Cliodynamics, I thought that getting data to…
How global university rankings are changing higher education
EARLIER this month Peking University played host to perhaps the grandest global gathering ever of the higher-education business. Senior figures…
Ford’s Weather Factory Can Simulate Blizzards And 155-MPH Winds
This isn’t your typical office job. Testing tomorrow’s great automotive products takes time, money, and some crazy testing facilities. Proving…
Art Stage Jakarta Cancels Its 2018 Fair, Citing Conflict With the Asian Games
The third edition of Art Stage Jakarta, which was set to take place September 7–9 at the Sheraton Grand Jakarta…
USDA to Warn Some Facilities Ahead of Animal Welfare Inspections
ISTOCK, ANYAIVANOVA The US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service sent a letter last month to organizations…
Zoo Pregnancy Raises Hopes of Preserving White Rhinos
FLICKR, IIP PHOTO ARCHIVEA southern white rhino at the San Diego Zoo named Victoria is pregnant, the zoo announced yesterday…
The Head of South Africa’s New Contemporary Art Museum Resigns Amid Investigation Into ‘Professional Conduct’
When the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art opened in Cape Town last September, it was hailed as “Africa’s answer to…
Short-term property-rental: How Airbnb lobbies Brussels
The short-term property-rental platforms have seen the potential for influence over those EU bodies which are supposed to regulate them,…
The Met 3-D Scanned Three Suits of Armor for an Icelandic Artist’s Public Art Show at the Cloisters
Visitors to New York’s Cloisters just might meet their knight in shining armor this summer. A new public art installation from…
Slowing Global Warming Could Save a Majority of Earthâs Species
WIKIMEDIA, HARALD ZIMMERIf global warming is kept in check, with only a 1.5 °C increase in temperatures by the end…
MoMA Is Suing MoMaCha Teashop Over Its Name—and the Cafe Thinks It’s ‘Absurd’
MoMaCha, a new tea shop and art gallery on New York’s Lower East Side, is battling back against the Museum…
FDA Approves Drug to Ease Symptoms of Opioid Withdrawal
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first non-opioid drug for treatment of the symptoms of opioid…
Chief Academic Officer Accused in Ongoing Research Scandal at UCL
WIKIMEDIA, DILIFF Prominent geneticist David Latchman, the chief academic and administrative officer of Birkbeck, University of London, has been accused…
Excel VBA basics: Data types, DIM & SET (Learn to use them correctly)
It’s best practice to declare your Excel VBA variables before you use them. Declaring variables means that you give VBA…
‘He Copies Me Much More Than I Copy Him’: Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham on 35 Years of Creative Cohabitation
Husband-and-wife artists Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham first met in 1977. When they married six years later, they formed the…