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The New York City Ballet Gets A Touch Of Marcel Dzama - Huffington Post
Digitally driven, image laden, and over branded, 21st century contemporary culture has resulted in a yearning for a simpler more streamlined lifestyle. T...
On Chess: New resident grandmaster at the chess club revels in her introduction to play here - St. Louis Public Radio
The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis hosted the 8th Annual Metro St. Louis Tournament on Feb. 6. I was very glad to participate in the event.
The Evangelical Seduction Interruptus - American Spectator
American Spectator
American Spectator
Can anyone imagine salesman Trump, always a couple of moves ahead in the chess game, authorizing such a blowback mailing? But who cares, the Cruz people will properly note, their guy placed ... Though both added a blue collar appeal to their message ...
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DC community calendar, Feb. 4-11, 2016 - Washington Post
Washington Post
Closer look at art through the conservator's eyes Paintings conservator Amber Kerr leads a tour of works by artists Abbott Handerson Thayer, Henry Ossawa Tanner and Winslow Homer, learn about their research, preservation and treatment, and discover ...
The New York City Ballet Gets A Touch Of Marcel Dzama - Huffington Post
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Huffington Post
This seems to be the tactic artist Marcel Dzama has taken with his career as well as the costume and set design of New York City Ballet's The Most Incredible Thing. Upon moving to New York City in 2004, Dzama began to create densely populated images ...
Could Andy Rubin's Playground usher in a new era for mankind? - Firstpost
Firstpost
Firstpost
That AI has no conception of chess, of the computer it's running on or even the fact that it's doing something. But here's the kicker, that's not really a problem as far as AI goes; our brains function in pretty much the ... This is exactly the world ...
The science of air guitar and car karaoke: How music teaches our brains to imagine what's coming next - Salon
Salon
Salon
One of the things the research showed was the connection between music and speech. “Importantly,” Natalie Angier wrote, “the M.I.T. team demonstrated that the speech and music circuits are in different parts of the brain's sprawling auditory cortex ...
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Vandersteen: Mead Library expands services - The Sheboygan Press
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The Sheboygan Press
You can still come to the library to check out books and DVDs, go to storytime with your kids and do research. But now you can do so much more. Mead Library is developing a Digital Media Lab and "Makerspace." You'll ... As always, the library offers ...
The New York City Ballet Gets A Touch Of Marcel Dzama - Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Digitally driven, image laden, and over branded, 21st century contemporary culture has resulted in a yearning for a simpler more streamlined lifestyle. The conspicuous consumption of (practically) any form of minimalist design—whether in fashion, ...
The New York City Ballet Gets A Touch Of Marcel Dzama - Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Huffington Post
This seems to be the tactic artist Marcel Dzama has taken with his career as well as the costume and set design of New York City Ballet's The Most Incredible Thing. Upon moving to New York City in 2004, Dzama began to create densely populated images ...
Meet the Kahanes: Father and son to perform together - Jewish Journal
Jewish Journal
Jewish Journal
He played baseball and chess growing up. Music didn't become a primary focus until he ... Gabriel did a tremendous amount of research about my mother fleeing Germany, her time spent in Cuba, coming to Los Angeles. He immersed himself in that world, ...
'The Most Incredible Thing' Review: A Flat Fairy Tale at NYCB - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
This time it's watercolors, constructions, sculptures and sketches by Canadian-born Marcel Dzama. A good number of these relate directly to his designs for Justin Peck's “The Most Incredible Thing,” which had its world premiere last week during NYCB's ...
Community Calendar - The Marysville Advocate
The Marysville Advocate
Chess Club, adults and youngsters, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursdays, Astro 3 Theatre, Marysville. Photo exhibit “Capturing Natural Wonders of Kansas ... By K-State Research and Extension and WRAPS. Lunch provided. RSVP by Feb. 15 for lunch. 785-562- ...
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Machine vs man race hots up - Khaleej Times
Khaleej Times
Khaleej Times
The game of Go has been the subject of research for some time. As it is played on a 19x19 board (making it exponentially more complicated than chess, which is set on a 8x8 board), the industry consensus seemed to indicate that it would have taken about ...
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Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon's Weird Mind Meld - Hyperallergic
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Hyperallergic
Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon, installation view of 'Forgetting the Hand' at David Zwirner, New York 2015-DZAMA40551 Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon, “The ghosts in these walls” (2015), pencil, ink, gouache, and collage on paper 14 x 11 1/8 ...
Will Obama's Oil Tax Reverse Plummeting Gas Prices? - CSPnet.com
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CSPnet.com
“President Obama has 'forked' the oil industry,” said Verleger, referring to a chess move where one player forces the other to give up a piece by attacking multiple pieces simultaneously. In this case, he said the Obama administration is trying to ...
5 Things To Know About President Obama's BudgetWAMU 88.5
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Five Surprising Details About Students Who Struggle on International Math Tests - Education Week (subscription) (blog)
Education Week (subscription) (blog)
Education Week (subscription) (blog)
OECD researchers calculated an index of students' self-efficacy, and across all OECD countries, a student's likelihood of performing at the bottom in math rose 67 percent for every unit lower he fell on that efficacy scale. In the United States, for ...
OECD: U.S. Efforts Haven't Helped Low Performers on Global Math, Reading TestsEducation Week (subscription) (blog)
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Community News For The Vernon Edition - Hartford Courant
Hartford Courant
Hartford Courant
25, at 7 p.m. Bev has a degree in American Studies and Education and has done extensive research on this topic; she'll share her findings at this month's meeting of the Ellington Historical Society. All are welcome. February movies are: "Our Brand is ...
St. Vincent debate team among best in the nation - Petaluma Argus Courier
Petaluma Argus Courier
Petaluma Argus Courier
He note that before the advent of tablets, teams might lug as many as five file cabinets of research to a competition. The coach said both Hunter and ... “It is like pieces of chess. You still have to know how to move them around. How to organize your ...
Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon's Weird Mind Meld - Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic
Gumby, surfers, penises, Batman and Robin, naked ladies with machine guns, Diamond Dogs-era David Bowie, bats and skulls, Charles Manson, dancers in polka dot dresses: These are a few of the motifs that crop up in Forgetting the Hand, a show of ...