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First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

When Modernism First Moved

. That’s century-old hyperbole, of course, but if any date achieves day of infamy status for modern art in the 20th century, it’s the day that Russian composer Igor Stravinsky teamed up with Russian ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes ... [Published Big Think - May 22 2013]

Entities: Sergei Diaghilev, Vaslav Nijinsky, Léon Bakst, Auguste Rodin

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Northern Pacific Railway

609 - Had the Cookie Crumbled Differently: East and West Dakota

National Geographic, some years ago: a melancholy piece about the emptying of the Dakotan prairie, illustrated with pictures of pension-age waitresses in doomed diners in dying towns, and of the wind playing with dolls in windowless farmhouses, abandoned ... [Published Big Think - May 22 2013]

Entities: Northern Pacific Railway, Yankton (United States), Sioux City (United States)

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Time to End Eyewitness Testimony?

This article originally appeared in the Newton blog on RealClearScience. You can read the original here.The courtroom is hushed.A teenage boy has been slain, riddled with bullets during a drive-by shooting, and there, on the witness stand, is his crying ... [Published Big Think - May 20 2013]

Entities: Testimony, Memory, Witness, Crime

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Koch Industries Inc

Soon, You'll Know As Much About What You Buy As the Company That Made It

The term "Big Data" naturally conjures up images of Big Users, like the government or Google or Costco. It's easy to see why big enterprises crunch data to learn, for example, which groceries people want on the first day of a heat wave and which they ... [Published Big Think - May 16 2013]

Entities: Koch Industries Inc, Paul Slovic, Big Data, Paul Bloom, Bangladesh

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

The Open Data Movement – Leveling the Playing Field For Consumers

American consumers gained considerable knowledge and power when a huge Medicare database was recently distributed to the public in easy-to-understand language. The data revealed what many patients have long suspected – hospitals charge Medicare tremendously ... [Published Big Think - May 16 2013]

Entities: Medicare, Database, Patient

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Why Cartoonists Make the Best Case for Gun Control

The gun debate in America may have “jumped the shark” with yesterday’s Mother’s Day Parade shooting in New Orleans that left 19 wounded, including two children. When something as universally accepted as the idea of motherhood becomes a shooting gallery, ... [Published Big Think - May 14 2013]

Entities: Gun Violence, Sandy Hook (United States), Gun Control

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

608 - Dull Flag and Tongue of Gangsta: The Laugh-out-loud Place-names of Shetland and Orkney

In The American Language , H.L. Mencken quotes Robert Louis Stevenson's paean to the American toponym: "There is no place in the world where nomenclature is so rich, poetical, humorous and picturesque as the United States […]".Mencken then goes on to ... [Published Big Think - May 14 2013]

Entities: H. L. Mencken, United States

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Dawn Kasper's Spontaneous Web

"There is an electricity transmitted between a performer and a live audience," says Los Angeles performance artist, Dawn Kasper. "The exchange between the performer and the audience is powerful, intimate and specific."That is distinctly different from ... [Published Big Think - May 14 2013]

Entities: YouTube LLC, Andy Kaufman, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gulf War

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 1 reports

607 - That Monkey Don't Swim: Maps, Sex and Violence

I had you at maps. Obviously. Because you too are puzzled by this peculiar cartographic specimen, showing the spatial distribution of certain social traits across Central Africa.The purple blob in the middle is a matriarchal zone, where females rule, ... [Published Big Think - May 12 2013]

Entities: Bonobo, Chimpanzee, Republic of the Congo, Sex

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

The Venutian Dinosaur Fallacy

Venus has always captured the attention of humanity. Of all the objects that adorn our night sky, it's the brightest, excluding the Moon.Peering through his telescope in the early 17th century, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei found Venus to be almost ... [Published Big Think - May 11 2013]

Entities: Galileo Galilei, Carl Sagan, 17th century

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Can There Be Such a Thing as Punk Couture?

With all apologies to Neil Young, this is the story of Johnny Rotten, or at least the story of his clothes. PUNK: Chaos to Couture, which opens today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and runs through August 14, argues that Punk rock and its accompanying ... [Published Big Think - May 10 2013]

Entities: DI Corp, John Lydon, Alexander McQueen, Metropolitan Museum of Art

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 3 reports

Big Idea Redux: Science Experiment Results in Expulsion, Felony Charges

We live in a time of information abundance, which far too many of us see as information overload. With the sum total of human knowledge, past and present, at our fingertips, we’re faced with a crisis of attention: which ideas should we engage with, and ... [Published Big Think - May 02 2013]

Entities: Felony, Nanotechnology, Biology, Architecture

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Many thanks to Jonah Adkins for sending in this map, found here on ESRI, a company which "inspires and enables people to positively impact the future through a deeper, geographic understanding of the changing world around them" . The other ED/WD map found here on Shebby Lee Tours. The map of a unified Dakota found here at Madville Times

609 - Had the Cookie Crumbled Differently: East and West Dakota [Published Big Think - May 22 2013]

"Under the best of observation conditions, the absolute best, we only detect, encode and store in our brains bits and pieces of the entire experience in front of us... So now, when it's important for us to be able to recall what it was that we experienced, we have an incomplete [memory], and what happens? ...The brain fills in information that was not there, not originally stored, from inference, from speculation, from sources of information that came to you, as the observer, after the observation. But it happens without awareness such that you... aren't even cognizant of it occurring."

Time to End Eyewitness Testimony? [Published Big Think - May 20 2013]

In The American Language , H L Mencken quotes Robert Louis Stevenson's paean to the American toponym: "There is no place in the world where nomenclature is so rich, poetical, humorous and picturesque as the United States […]"

608 - Dull Flag and Tongue of Gangsta: The Laugh-out-loud Place-names of Shetland and Orkney [Published Big Think - May 14 2013]

"There is an electricity transmitted between a performer and a live audience," says Los Angeles performance artist, Dawn Kasper. "The exchange between the performer and the audience is powerful, intimate and specific."

Dawn Kasper's Spontaneous Web [Published Big Think - May 14 2013]

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