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View as a gridWhy People Feel Like Victims - Issue 99: Universality - Nautilus
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In a polarized nation, victimhood is a badge of honor. It gives people strength. "The victim has become among the most important identity positions in American politics," wrote Robert B. Horwitz, a communications professor at the University of California, San Diego. Horwitz published his study, "Politics as Victimhood, Victimhood as Politics," in 2018.
I Am a Heroin User. I Do Not Have a Drug Problem - Issue 96: Rewired - Nautilus
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Carl Hart is a neuroscientist and Ziff Professor of Psychology at Columbia University-he was the first tenured African-American professor of sciences at Columbia. His research focuses on the "behavioral and neuropharmacological effects of psychoactive drugs in humans."
How Psilocybin Can Save the Environment - Issue 90: Something Green - Nautilus
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Last week, biologist and writer Merlin Sheldrake introduced Nautilus readers to Paul Stamets, a mycologist who preaches that mushrooms can save the world. "Give him an insoluble problem and he'll toss you a new way it can be decomposed, poisoned, or healed by a fungus," Sheldrake writes.
The Last Water Fountain: The Struggle Against Systemic Racism in Classical Music
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I am not the right person to recount the struggles of Black musicians to play in the country's great orchestras. So I am reminded. "How could you be?" comes the scold, from both Black people and white: "in your whiteness, are you not another example of the systemic racist?
T. Rex Was a Slacker - Issue 86: Energy - Nautilus
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In our evolving understanding of dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex has acquired a new persona in recent decades. It's always been the imperious, curiously agile two-ton gargantua, personified as a gaunt, grizzle-faced gunfighter at the dark end of the bar, a soulless creature that lived to 30 and possessed a keen sense of smell, good eyesight, surprisingly pliable skin and banana-sized teeth.
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A Window on Africa's Resilience - Issue 84: Outbreak - Nautilus
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We called Greg Carr the other day to talk about the spread of the coronavirus in Africa. Carr, who has been featured in Nautilus , is the founder of the Gorongosa Restoration Project, a partnership with the Mozambique government to revive Gorongosa National Park, that environmental treasure trove at the southern end of the Rift Valley.
The Unintended Beauty of Starlings - Issue 83: Intelligence - Nautilus
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Eugene Schieffelin was the eccentric ornithologist who in 1890 shipped 60 starlings from London to New York City and set them free in Central Park. The next year he released 40 more, and today there are maybe 200 million starlings in the United States and Southern Canada.
Aubrey Bergauer Is Writing a New Script for Classical Music Engagement
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Aubrey Bergauer is one who has broken through the clef ceiling of the classical music world, no less from the stodgy, fearful world of regional orchestras. She’s the 36-year-old, C-suite “activator” who brought the California Symphony from near oblivion to fame and fortune, and now has been named founding director of the new Center for Innovative Leadership at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Reimagining "Druggability"
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In the modern age of pharmacology, some of the newest heroes in the war against human disease are biologists and chemists working in chemical proteomics. The term proteome is a portmanteau of protein and genome; roughly speaking, if genomics is focused on the genetic mapping of disease, proteomics identifies the proteins that can be targeted with drugs to actually fight disease.
We Need to Talk About Peat - Issue 78: Atmospheres - Nautilus
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In his poems about strange bodies buried in the bogs of Northern Europe, the late Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney describes peatlands filled with "drowned-mouse fibres dried up and the whole limp, soggy cluster ... Of weed leaf and turf mould."
States of Denial: Visa Rejections Cause Cancellations at S.F. International Arts Festival
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The San Francisco International Arts Festival (SFIAF) opened on Thursday at the Fort Mason Center and runs for a week. The annual festival began in 2002 and is one of the smallest festivals of its kind in America, with a budget of about $200,000.
The Legacy of Dr. Legato
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For Dr. Legato, the preeminent saxman, the day begins when it begins; and if that sounds loose and self-indulgent, even at 78, not so.
Curse of the Maestros: The Orpheus Effect Revisited, Part III
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In his classic book, The Maestro Myth, Great Conductors in Pursuit of Power, first published in 1991, Norman Lebrecht described how "sexual rapacity" added to the mystique of many conductors: Klemperer was attacked on his podium by a jealous husband and Malcolm Sargent was forever fondling the wives of colleagues.
Reshaping the Orchestra Pyramid: The Orpheus Effect Revisited, Part II
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Jeffrey Pfeffer is a 71-year-old professor of business theory in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford. He's a master theorist, one of the true illuminati in his field and also a strict pragmatist. His core interest is in the manifestations of power in American business.
The Orpheus Effect Revisited
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The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is that 46-year-old organizational prodigy known for collaborative leadership. Musicians reach a consensus on repertoire; rotate creative responsibilities; hold a voice in administration and marketing; nominate and approve new members; and play without a conductor.
In an Age of Ultra-Nationalism, What Happens to Music?
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The anti-immigrant phobias surging through Europe and North America have so far had little practical effect on classical music organizations, although there are notable exceptions - one of Britain's most beloved orchestras, The European Union Baroque Orchestra, is presenting its last U.K. concert on May 19 and will then move to Antwerp.
Glass Houses: The Quest to Build a Cultural Center in Big Sur
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The apparent stalling of the project to build a center for Philip Glass's Days and Nights Festival has not slowed the composer one bit. But it's another thing for residents to discuss as they ponder the future of Big Sur.
In Colleges, Content Warnings Trigger a Debate
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In higher education, an issue du jour involves the debate over "trigger warnings." This is the notion that college teachers should take special care to warn students that a particular course of study or discussion, or a particular work of art, may be upsetting, even traumatic.
The Artist of the Unbreakable Code - Issue 6: Secret Codes - Nautilus
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It was the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 1897. Through a periscope, England was sailing along in all its hope and glory. That summer Edward Elgar turned 40 and was slowly emerging as the country's greatest composer. For the jubilee he'd written The Imperial March, a foreshadowing of the Pomp and Circumstance marches that would make him famous.