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Katti grew up above brothel wins scholarship From Mallika Kapur, CNN July 8, 2013 — Updated 1230 GMT (2030 HKT) Escaping Mumbai’s red-light district STORY HIGHLIGHTS Shweta Katti grew up above a brothel in Mumbai’s red-light district She says she was sexually abused when she was about 11 or 12 But Katti has risen above her circumstances…
More and more of modern life is steered by algorithms. But what are they exactly, and who is behind them? Tom Whipple follows the trail There are many reasons to believe that film stars earn too much. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie once hired an entire train to travel from London to Glasgow. Tom Cruise’s…
Anatomy of an A-Lister: The Players Behind Hollywood’s Elite While most regular people spend half their waking hours wondering what to wear, how to shed pounds of booze and pizza, and why their latest tweet hasn’t received so much as a ‘favorite,’ A-Listers have a whole crew of trained professionals to make sure they look,…
Embryonic stem cells: Advance in medical human cloning By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News An embryo at the blastocyst stage Human cloning has been used to produce early embryos, marking a “significant step” for medicine, say US scientists. The cloned embryos were used as a source of stem cells, which can…
The Great Gatsby was originally published in April 1925, which means that those who first read it were much nearer in time to Henry James and even Charles Dickens than we are to Scott Fitzgerald. And that reflection brings a shock. For just as the book survives in our minds partly as a period…
Scrutinizing the Sexy New Art-Tech Industry: It’s Not a Bubble, It’s Barely a Blip Illustration by ARTINFO More Voices by Shane Ferro The Internet is a great place: It has revolutionized the way that we communicate, shop, and consume information. But certain things have a certain je ne sais quoi to them that transitions awkwardly to the…
A student critique in the main gallery at CalArts Los Angeles teaching is still top for next generation of artists Los Angeles’ art schools are the stuff of legend. Since the 1960s, students have flocked to the city to study under the likes of Allan Kaprow, Chris Burden, John Baldessari and Paul McCarthy. The…