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“I never liked film music very much,” Williams said to The Guardian’s Dalya Alberge, “Film music, however good it can be — and it usually isn’t, other than maybe an eight-minute stretch here and there … I just think the music isn’t there. What we think of as this precious great film music … we’re remembering it in some kind of nostalgic way. Just the idea that film music has the same place in the concert hall as the best music in the canon is a mistaken notion, I think.”

Dürer's work on human proportions is called the Four Books on Human Proportion (Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion) of 1528. The first book was mainly composed by 1512/13 and completed by 1523, showing five differently constructed types of both male and female figures, all parts of the body expressed in fractions of the total height. Dürer based these constructions on both Vitruvius and empirical observations of "two to three hundred living persons", in his own words. The second book includes eight further types, broken down not into fractions but an Albertian system, which Dürer probably learned from Francesco di Giorgio's De harmonica mundi totius of 1525. In the third book, Dürer gives principles by which the proportions of the figures can be modified, including the mathematical simulation of convex and concave mirrors; here Dürer also deals with human physiognomy. The fourth book is devoted to the theory of movement.

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Audible's new proposed royalty structure is a slap in the face to authors, readers who care about them, and exactly opposite of what they promised Brandon Sanderson barely a year ago.

It is an attempt to seize a monopoly by punishing authors until they agree to exclusivity, which would drive Audible's competitors out of the market.

Popisi stanovništva jedan su od najzanimljivijih izvora podataka koje imamo. Oni najraniji služili su uvijek za posebne svrhe, obično vojne. Prvi takav popis na prostorima Hrvatske proveden je 1357. na području Dubrovačke Republike, a do prvoga modernog popisa stanovništva na području današnje Hrvatske proći će nekoliko stotina godina. Tek je 1857. taj popis proveden po naredbi i uz ljudstvo iz Beča. Svrha mu je bila popisati stanovništvo i dobiti uvid u društveno, ekonomsko, prostorno i ostalo stanje Habsburške Monarhije. Između ostalog, taj je popis važan jer se ti podaci smatraju prvim službenim podacima o broju stanovništva po naseljima u Hrvatskoj i zato što su se mogli koristiti za znanstvena istraživanja.

Bill Labov passed away peacefully at home on December 17, 2024, with his wife and fellow Penn linguist Gillian Sankoff by his side. He leaves behind a legacy so large that it is hard to put into words. All three authors were fortunate enough to have had Bill as our PhD supervisor (Laurel: 2012, Meredith: 2014, Betsy: 2018). We feel that the many hours we spent in his presence and with his work have given us a good insight into who and how he was. We also feel deep love and gratitude for him and for his imprint on the field and on us. As such, this piece is our reflection on Bill as a person, an advisor, and a scholar, from our perspective as three of his students from his later years.

Here's a deep cut for you: Microsoft Academic was an academic search engine once touted as an alternative to Google scholar. But unlike scholar, it made its dataset of authors, organisations, keywords, and journals available as open data. This made it a very useful resource that supported many research tools including VOSviewer, Unsub, Litmaps, and Semantic Scholar. Microsoft killed it anyway in 2021.

The academic community response revealed systemic unpreparedness. Despite Microsoft Academic being the second-largest academic search engine, no adequate backup systems existed. OpenAlex and The Lens emerged as replacements, but experts warned it would take years to match the quality and comprehensiveness of the discontinued service. The disruption affected commercial enterprises and academic tools globally. The lesson? Even successful, widely-used academic infrastructure gets the axe when companies decide it's not strategically important anymore.

Flash flew across the mid-2000s internet sky in a blaze of glory and unbridled creativity. It was the backbone of menus and programs and even critical applications for working with sites. But by 2009, bugs and compatibility issues, the introduction of HTML5 with many of the same features, and a declaration that Flash would no longer be welcome on Apple’s iOS devices, sent Flash into a spiral that it never recovered from.

But thanks to the Archive’s emulation, Flash lives again, at least as self-contained creations you can play in your browser.

What emerges, as thousand of these Flash animations and games arrive, is what part it played in the lives of people now in their twenties and thirties and beyond. “Almost like being given a moment to breathe, or to walk into a museum space and see distant memories hung up on walls as classic art,” our patrons wrote in.

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