Are Smart Tools Making Us Dumber?
Pro Tool Reviews: Ah, the good old days when we spent every daylit hour outside playing until Mom made us come home for dinner. And she really did have to make us. Fishing, playing basketball or tossing a football was much more fun than coming inside. That was before smartphones, tablets, and Netflix took over the world. As I reflect on those simpler times, it makes me wonder: Are smart tools making us dumber on the jobsite?The Chilling Implications of a Disney-Fox Merger
The Atlantic: Reports of the film industry’s impending death have been greatly exaggerated. It’d be more accurate to say the business is consolidating, with earnings for some major studios soaring in recent years and others taking big write-downs. Head and shoulders above everyone else is Disney, which reported profits of $2.5 billion in 2016 and made five of the 10 most successful films of the year (including the top three). The company, which owns Lucasfilm, Marvel Studios, and Pixar, already makes almost $1 billion more than its next biggest rival. That casts the news of its reported interest in acquiring Fox in an even more daunting light.Ridley Scott’s Decision to Replace Kevin Spacey Sends the Right Kind of Message
Variety: On Wednesday, director Ridley Scott announced a plan that is virtually unprecedented in the history of Hollywood: With his new film “All the Money in the World” already in the can and less than two weeks from its planned world premiere, he will recast Kevin Spacey’s role (as deep-pocketed oil tycoon J. Paul Getty) and reshoot the publicly disgraced actor’s scenes with 87-year old Christopher Plummer, while still attempting to adhere to the film’s Dec. 22 release date.Does Smoking Pot Make You More Creative?
www.artsy.net: “Was there ever any fear that, by giving up the drugs, you lose a bit of the genius?” a young Jon Stewart asked his creative hero George Carlin in a 1997 interview.
Carlin, who remembers his 1960s self as a rebel-comedian eager to experiment with cannabis and mescaline, replied: “Where the drugs are concerned, and alcohol, they do seem to open a window for you. They do seem to broaden the vistas—at first.”Grad Students Are Freaking Out About the GOP Tax Plan. They Should Be
WIRED: AMANDA COSTON WAS preparing for a meeting with her advisor Monday afternoon when her friend, another first-year PhD student in Carnegie Mellon's machine learning department, knocked on her door. Had she seen the email? A few minutes earlier, the university's Graduate Student Assembly had sent a Google Doc to department representatives across the university, and those reps had forwarded the document to their grad students.
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