Category: Humanities
Hitting the Books: High school students have spent a decade fighting Baltimore’s toxic legacy
There was a time in the last century when we, quite foolishly, believed incineration to be a superior means of waste disposal than landfills. And, for decades, many of America’s most disadvantaged have been paying for those decisions with with their lifespans. South Baltimore’s Curtis Bay neighborhood, for example, is…
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Netflix’s Love, Death and Robots finds the ‘nerd joy’ of adult animation
What happens when animation geeks get the greenlight to produce whatever they want? You get Netflix’s Love, Death and Robots, an anthology series that’s meant to remind viewers that cartoons aren’t just for kids. You’d think that would be a foregone conclusion in 2022, decades after anime has become mainstream,…
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Adobe adds motion, reference layers and more to its Fresco painting app
Adobe Fresco has given artists and designers the ability to draw and paint with lifelike digital materials for two years now. Last fall, the company expanded the app to iPhone, but this year the updates are much more robust. With the additions announced today at its annual Adobe Max design…
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Italian museum uses cameras to gauge the attractiveness of art
We've seen augmented reality bring art to the great outdoors, but Italy's museums are now using cameras to measure the appeal of paintings instead. The country's agency for R&D has developed a new system that can measure how long you look at and how close you get to a work…
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