Life News (Arts & Humanities)

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The pipe organ stands as a bastion in concert halls and church sanctuaries, and even when not in use, it affects the acoustical environment around it. Researchers performed a sine-sweep through loudspeakers facing the organ pipes and measured the response with a microphone at different positions. They verified experimentally that sympathetic resonance does occur in organ pipes during musical performances and speeches, and that the overall amplitude increases when the signal matches the resonance of one or more pipes.

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The election is over, but conversations surrounding the outcome are sure to continue for weeks to come. With Thanksgiving right around the corner, knowing how to engage with friends and family members with differing political views may help keep tempers at bay – and relationships intact. Virginia Tech expert Todd Schenk shared his advice for how to keep the peace.

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Today, the Bronx Zoo announced that Idina Menzel, Tony Award-winner, actress, philanthropist and multi-platinum-selling singer/songwriter, will perform in the 98th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade® on the zoo’s new “Wondrous World of Wildlife” float.

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University of South Australia PhD student Belinda Lees has explored how screenwriters could create more nuanced and complex child-free women protagonists in biopics, after uncovering the barrage of often negative portrayals in existing media.

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The Indian film industry has emerged stronger post COVID-19 with a new focus on modern filmmaking techniques and distribution models, according to experts from the University of South Australia and the University of Adelaide.

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"Painting to Scale," the latest exhibition at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, boasts rarely shown, large-scale artwork from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union. The exhibition runs from Wednesday, Nov. 13, through Oct. 5, 2025, in the lower Dodge wing at the Zimmerli, 71 Hamilton St.

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Compelling work from four current and past BFA students of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts University is the focus of the new exhibition “SMFA at Tufts: Fragments of Self,” on view from November 23, 2024 - April 27, 2025 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA

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In a career that spanned more than 70 years, Jones made the best-selling album of all time, Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” as a producer. ...

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A Venezuelan journalist and lover of the arts, Sofía Ímber will be honored at the Kislak Center at the University of Miami.

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B-Roll and photos are available from one of Cedars-Sinai's happiest celebrations of the year: Halloween in the Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, where the smallest babies and their families are treated to handmade costumes, courtesy of a cadre of volunteers. 

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The Path to Paralysis: How American Politics Became Nasty, Dysfunctional, and a Threat to the Republic, released in mid-October by Anthem Press, examines the changes in political culture that have moved the United States from The Great Society to the U.S. Capitol Insurrection in less than 60 years. Polarization and toxicity are now common in a country that is 50/50 red/blue, and “compromise” is considered a dirty word.

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A documentary made by student filmmakers at Rutgers under the guidance of an Academy Award-winning educator and an activist documentarian is having its premiere public screening in downtown New Brunswick.   Promotora, a 14-minute film focused on Mexican American women who travel around New Brunswick and serve as educators about health care resources available to their communities, is one of three short films that will be screened during “Mexican/American: The Search for Health and Happiness.

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The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has debuted a new educational website that chronicles the evolution of the City of Little Rock through more than a century of history. Funded by two grants totaling more than $375,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Mapping Little Rock History project allows users to explore key moments in the city's expansion.

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Question: What do you think are some of the reasons why an author would prefer to use a pen name over their real one?

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Researchers and institutions in Qatar are now directly sharing their outputs with the world thanks to Manara, the research repository by Qatar National Library.

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Scientists from Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University found out that prolonged mental load led to decrease of functional connectivity between frontal and parietal lobes of brain, that is followed by decrease of efficiency of information processing.

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An eclectic (and often electric!) mix -featuring Chromic Duo, ATLANTICUS, Salar Nader & Homayoun Sakhi, TAK Ensemble, and MATMOS. ...

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In her new book, A Minimally Good Life: What We Owe to Others and What We Can Justifiably Demand, Binghamton University Professor of Philosophy Nicole Hassoun argues that respect for our common humanity requires helping others live minimally good lives when doing so does not require sacrificing our own ability to live well enough.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute will feature "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" in its 2025 spring exhibition, exploring the history and cultural significance of Black dandyism. ...

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When Rachel Toepfer is playing in the fantasy realm of Dungeons & Dragons, they tend to play the role of a paladin, a holy knight who fights for a cause.  In the real world, the Rutgers University-New Brunswick senior has taken up an advocacy role, too, advancing the cause for LGBTQ+ rights.