Posts tagged as ‘nytimes’
How Hollywood over the years has structured their movie shots and sequences to coincide with the 1/f fluctuation
the basic shot structure of the movies, the way film segments of different lengths are bundled together from scene to scene, act to act, has evolved over the years to resemble a rough but recognizably wave-like pattern called 1/f, or one over frequency — or the more Hollywood-friendly metaphor, pink noise
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# § cinema, Film, filmmaking, Movies, nytimes, ScienceShort expose on Laura Linney, one of my favorite actresses # § actress, del.icio.us, exposé, Film, lauralinney, link, NYC, nytimes, Theatre
# § exercise, Health, nytimesFor some time, researchers have been finding that people who exercise don’t necessarily lose weight. A study published online in September in The British Journal of Sports Medicine was the latest to report apparently disappointing slimming results. In the study, 58 obese people completed 12 weeks of supervised aerobic training without changing their diets. The group lost an average of a little more than seven pounds, and many lost barely half that.
A difficult but important personal subject. I'm still not sure what the "correct" answer is. Maybe there is none. # § Children, del.icio.us, link, Mind, nytimes, Psychology
via well.blogs.nytimes.com Every piece of anecdotal evidence under the sun in the comments. Just grateful my children were not *colicky* under my definition. ... # § babies, childern, colic, nytimes
“Here is my country,” a young woman said to me, voice breaking. “This is a coup. I could have worked in Europe but I came back for my people.” And she, too, sobbed. “Don’t cry, be brave,” a man admonished her. # § iran, middleeast, nytimes, Politics, world
Latin is a beautiful language and a relief from the incessant novelty and informality of the modern age. But when it’s used on diplomas, the effect is to obfuscate, not edify; its function is to overawe, not delight. The goal of education is the creation and transmission of knowledge — not the creation and transmission of prestige. Why, then, celebrate that education with a document that prizes grandiosity over communication? # § diplomas, latin, nytimes, Opinion, university
The dirty secret of higher education is that without underpaid graduate students to help in laboratories and with teaching, universities couldn’t conduct research or even instruct their growing undergraduate populations. # § Culture, education, nytimes, university
The glossy black Dutch bike is slowly making inroads. But 1K a pop?! F that noise. # § bicycle, Cycling, Fashion, NYC, nytimes, Workplace
New York Characters in Sound and Images. I love this. # § gallery, multimedia, nytimes, Slideshow