Xian Zhang kicks it up a notch in her second season.
Image: Courtesy James Holt/Seattle Symphony
The new season of the Seattle Symphony actively impresses one person in particular—Xian Zhang, the music director who starts her second year in September. “Every...
In discussions of film and T V, there’s a phrase that sometimes comes up: “They have a face that looks like it’s seen an iPhone.” The same can be said of music, especially as vintage inspirations and pastiche have...
A satellite instrument built to track air pollution has turned out to be a useful early-warning sensor for dying forests. In work covered on 13 September 2026 by Scienmag and published earlier that month by the University of Utah,...
A man cut me off in traffic last week, and I spent the next twenty minutes building a psychological profile of someone I had seen for roughly one second. He was selfish. He had probably always been selfish. Somewhere,...
Some people can’t send a three-word text without decorating it. “Running late 😬”. “Sounds good 🙌”. “Sorry about earlier 🥲”. It reads as padding, or as someone who never quite left school.
The research points somewhere else. Frequent emoji use...
The Sydney-based company was named Startup of the Year at the annual gala event in Sydney on September 10, standing out in a stacked category that included sustainable textile manufacturer Xefco, quantum sensing startup Nomad Atomics and telehealth platform...
Somewhere in the mid-sixties, a lot of people go quiet at the dinner table. They still turn up. They still laugh in the right places. But the long arguments about politics, or about who was actually right about the...
The sold out awards dinner with 220 guests heard from entrepreneur turned federal MP Allegra Spender who discussed risk and purpose in building startups in Australia.
“Startups are about two things – it’s taking a big risk, and that’s a...
Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter saying it was time to "pace the frontier" and slow down AI development. OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk both agreed, publicly voicing their support on X. Even Alphabet's...
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple is developing two game controllers for the iPhone and will likely sell them under the Beats brand. Rumors that Apple might enter the game controller business have circulated for some time. But last week,...
