Culture For The Non-Cultured

As many readers of this blog know, I organize Culture for the Non-Cultured Meetup, a large social group that attends various cultural events — theater, museums, movies, ballet, baseball games, etc. — in groups of 20-60 people.  After each event, we eat.
Below are events in our future.  (many have not been officially announced on the [...]

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Can violent video games narrow the gender gap in science? According to one intriguing paper, reported on by Cognitive Daily, it seems possible.
The study found that:
– After playing a violent video game, women performed just as well as the men did on a spatial test commonly used to test science skills — and this [...]

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Want people to remember your name — at a party, at work, at a networking event, etc? Be sure to smile when you are first introduced. According to a new study, “behavioral results showed that the retrieval of face-name associations was more accurate and faster for smiling than neutral faces.”
SMILE! Science says [...]

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Click in the box below for a video I made in about 10 minutes, with the help of my new favorite site called Animoto.com and members of Culture for the Non-Cultured Meetup who took pictures of some of the cultural events we have been on in New York City over the past 2 years.
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As many of you know, for the past 2 years, I have organized a large social group in New York City called Culture for the Non-Cultured Meetup. We attend cultural events around the city — theater, museums, walking tours, baseball games, and more — in groups of 20-60 people. Events are usually held 3-4 [...]

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The horror! The fear!
Internet cable companies, such as Time Warner Cable and Comcast are thinking of charging us for the amount of bandwidth we use. We use bandwidth by downloading YouTube videos and playing interactive games.
Time Warner Cable tried out charging users in Texas when they exceeded a certain pre-set limit, Comcast is slowing [...]

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Feather your hair & warm up your voice if you need a new discount bed because the upcoming movie version of the Broadway play Mamma Mia is teaming up with Ikea, and Ikea is opening in Red Hook in Brooklyn on Wednesday.
Mamma Mia is based on the long-running Broadway show that uses songs from the [...]

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Hooray! Culture for the Non-Cultured Meetup, the large social group I organize, is going to see the new show Life in a Marital Institution on June 28th at 8:00 PM. After the show, there will be a Q & A with the performer, James Braly, after the show. And then, the [...]

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Recently, on NPR’s radio show, This American Life , I learned about the creative editing process at The Onion, the uber-popular weekly satirical newspaper. Every Monday, each person on the Onion team comes in with lots and lots and lots of story ideas. The headlines are read aloud by their creators. If at least [...]

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The Holy Trinity. The Three Musketeers. Easy as 1, 2, 3.
There’s something very special about the number 3.
Years and years ago, I saw a fabulous documentary on comedy that featured the writers of the Sid Ceasar show, with the old funny men sitting around chewing the fat about the good ol’ days. In passing, they [...]

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