Seiji Ozawa, the shaggy-haired, high-voltage Japanese maestro who served as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for almost 30 years and was widely considered the first Asian conductor to win world renown leading a classical orchestra, died Feb. 6 at his home in Tokyo. He was 88. The Seiji Ozawa International Academy Switzerland announced … Read more
America Ferrera has some strong feelings about how her “curvy” body was viewed as “groundbreaking” in Hollywood, calling the notion “insane.” In an interview with ELLE for its 2023 Women in Hollywood December/January 2023 issue, the 39-year-old actress reflected on the praise she — and by extension, her body — received for supposedly setting a new standard for … Read more
Today, an international team of researchers shared an extraordinarily detailed atlas of human brain cells, mapping its staggering diversity of neurons. The atlas was published as part of a massive package of 21 papers in the journal Science, each taking complementary approaches to the same overarching questions: What cell types exist in the brain? And … Read more
Manhattan’s McKittrick hotel looms nondescriptly while housing an entire world of mystery and intrigue inspired by Shakespeare’s Scottish Play. During Halloween season io9 was invited to its current run. Meet Microsoft’s New Surface Laptops Having experienced immersive theater on the West Coast for the better part of 10 years, I’d often heard about the show … Read more
“In the event you took an Uber in Washington, D.C., a number of years in the past,” reads the opening pages of Ready to Be Arrested at Night time, the newly-released memoir by the acclaimed poet and mental Tahir Hamut Izgil, “there was an opportunity your driver was one of many biggest dwelling Uyghur poets.” … Read more
Picture: Frazer Harrison (Getty Photographs) At as we speak’s SAG-AFTRA strike announcement, the AI proposal put forth by the the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers was aired out for the primary time, and it was stated to incorporate taking scans of background actors to be used not solely in a single mission, however … Read more