Pat Metheny’s new album and tour celebrate a major technical feat: thousands of moving parts executing one man’s programmed score.
Archive for January, 2010
19th-Century Concept, With a Few Upgrades (New York Times)
Sunday, January 31st, 2010Art Picks: O’Keeffe, Albers, Cézanne, Ginsberg, Munch and more (Washington Post)
Sunday, January 31st, 20106 — “Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction.” This Phillips Collection show should offer an antidote to O’Keeffe’s flower and landscape imagery, which can sometimes seem a bit overripe. I’m especially looking forward to getting another look at her early abstractions in blue ink, when she was still very m…
Association formed to transfer longevity risk to capital markets (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Sunday, January 31st, 2010LONDON (Reuters) — A new association has formed to transfer longevity and mortality-related risk to the capital markets in the same way that some of the world’s biggest perils, such as hurricanes and earthquakes, are protected against by shifting the risk to investors via catastrophe bonds.
Association formed to transfer longevity risk to capital markets (Interactive Investor)
Sunday, January 31st, 2010By Sarah Hills
(AFX UK Focus) 2010-01-31 07:15 Association formed to transfer longevity risk to capital markets (Interactive Investor)
Sunday, January 31st, 2010By Sarah Hills
Financial Times FT.com (Financial Times)
Sunday, January 31st, 2010The move, which marks the first significant co-operative effort to set up standardised products, comes as UK corporate and public pension schemes become more focused on longevity , the risk that they will pay pensions to retirees for far longer than they have assumed.
Fred D’Aguiar on Tate Liverpool’s Afro Modern (Guardian Unlimited)
Sunday, January 31st, 2010Black Atlantic culture – spanning Africa, the Americas and Europe – has had a profound influence on artists, from Picasso to Chris Ofili. Fred D’Aguiar celebrates the power of art to debunk historical stereotypes Paul Gilroy has a lot to answer for. Not since Edward Said’s Orientalism has a book – Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic – generated such intellectual curiosity and exerted so wide an …
Christopher Hitchens on JD Salinger: An author who flirted with immortality (Daily Mirror)
Saturday, January 30th, 2010The death of JD Salinger may feel like an almost personal loss to those who remember the wistful reflections of Holden Caulfield, the nervous youth who came to rival Huck Finn as the symbol of confused, quasi-articulate but decent American boyhood.
The Night Belongs to Us (New York Times)
Saturday, January 30th, 2010The downtown rocker Patti Smith’s memoir of her early career and her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe is a spellbinding, diverting portrait of funky-but-chic New York in the late ’60s and early ’70s.
Engineers Explore Environmental Concerns of Nanotechnology (Newswise)
Saturday, January 30th, 2010History has shown that previous industrial revolutions, such as those involving asbestos and chloroflurocarbons, have had some serious environmental impacts. Might nanotechnology also pose a risk?
Behind the masks: Afro Modern at Tate Liverpool (Guardian Unlimited)
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Black Atlantic culture – spanning Africa, the Americas and Europe – has had a profound influence on artists, from Picasso to Chris Ofili. Fred D’Aguiar celebrates the power of art to debunk historical stereotypes
Strikeforce’s Cyborg "sweet" some days — just not while she’s fighting (Sun-Sentinel)
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Puts her Strikeforce Women’s World Lightweight title on the line Saturday Here’s the first thing you need to know about Cris Cyborg, the new face of women’s mixed martial arts.
Serious Pimp Sponsors Herschel Walker Opponent Greg Nagy, Strikeforce Women’s Champion Cris Cyborg, Superstar Nick … (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Serious Pimp sponsoring four of the 12 MMA fights in Saturday’s Strikeforce. Herschel Walker rival Greg Nagy, Strikeforce 145 Pound Women’s Champion Cris Cyborg, Superstar Nick Diaz and Wes Sims will weigh in, walk in and walk out proudly wearing Serious Pimp sunglasses.
Serious Pimp Sponsors Herschel Walker Opponent Greg Nagy, Strikeforce Women’s Champion Cris Cyborg, Superstar Nick … (PRWeb)
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Serious Pimp sponsoring four of the 12 MMA fights in Saturday’s Strikeforce. Herschel Walker rival Greg Nagy, Strikeforce 145 Pound Women’s Champion Cris Cyborg, Superstar Nick Diaz and Wes Sims will weigh in, walk in and walk out proudly wearing Serious Pimp sunglasses. (PRWeb Jan 29, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/01/prweb3539274.htm
Movie review: ‘Legion’ leaves viewers wishing for end of the world (Kingsport Times-News)
Saturday, January 30th, 2010One of my favorite genres of this thing they call film is post-apocalyptic and/or dystopian flicks. That is, films that are set in a post-human future or a future that could very well soon become post-human.So, I’ve been in hog heaven lately.
Firm Brings Gene Tests to Masses (New York Times)
Saturday, January 30th, 2010A Silicon Valley start-up says it can help eradicate more than 100 diseases by allowing couples to avoid having children with the carrier genes.
Inexpensive Gene Tests for Prospective Parents (New York Times)
Saturday, January 30th, 2010The new movie “Extraordinary Measures” is based on the true story of a father who starts a company to develop a treatment for the rare genetic disease threatening to kill two of his children before they turn 10.
Firm brings gene tests to masses (Spartanburg Herald-Journal)
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Published: Friday, January 29, 2010 at 5:16 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, January 29, 2010 at 5:16 a.m. REDWOOD CITY, Calif.
Singularity 101: Readers’ Questions Answered (GOOD)
Saturday, January 30th, 2010To wrap up our Singularity 101 series, we invited readers to ask the authors questions about the technological singularity. Roko Mijic picked a few to answer. His responses are below. Josh Hibbard asks: My main argument in response to the benefits/drawbacks of having an advanced AI integrated into all facets of our society for the betterment of humanity and to possibly rid the world of poverty …
New Longevity Medicine Review Website Reveals the Science Behind Anti-Aging and Human Longevity (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Longevity Medicine Review’s new website at www.lmreview.com features reviews & analysis of the latest in anti-aging and longevity medicine.