“Her Fantasy” - Matthew Dear
A new Matthew Dear track! Gloriously busy, dark, viscous. Just as strong, if not stronger, than “Headcage.” I’m definitely excited for the end of this summer, which will most likely be soundtracked by Beams.
BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix - Nicolas Jaar
I love mixes that are practically built on surprising juxtapositions. *NSYNC, Charles Mingus, Bill Callahan, and The Field on the same playlist? Consecutively? Definitely worth a listen.
npr:
For decades, teachers, managers and parents have assumed that the performance of students and employees fits what’s known as the bell curve — in most activities, we expect a few people to be very good, a few people to be very bad and most people to be average.
The bell curve powerfully shapes how we think of human performance: If lots of students or employees happen to show up as extreme outliers — they’re either very good or very bad — we assume they must represent a skewed sample, because only a few people in a truly random sample are supposed to be outliers.
New research suggests, however, that rather than describe how humans perform, the bell curve may actually be constraining how people perform. Minus such constraints, a new paper argues, lots of people are actually outliers. -Shankar Vedantam
See also: Astra Taylor’s “Unschooling” in Issue 13 of n+1.
