The Collective Interest by Xtina RossAnnapurna Pictures, a decade. Pertinacity, Barney the Dino, Curling Teams and a filmmaker.“Annapurna is the vanguard of story in our Post Everything era”Sep 29, 2022Sep 29, 2022
The Collective Interest by Xtina RossMillennial Homeowners, the Vacation House Is the New Starter Home. American’t Dream?Owning a home is the American dream, but exactly what type of home is that old adage referring to? For many millennials, it’s not a…Feb 11, 2022Feb 11, 2022
The Collective Interest by Xtina RossOK, Can Science Fiction Wake Us Up to Our Climate Reality?Last summer, the science-fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson went on a backpacking trip with some friends. They headed into the High…Jan 28, 2022Jan 28, 2022
The Collective Interest by Xtina RossCan it be? The Diminishing Returns of Productivity CultureIn 2006, Karen Ho was an anthropology student at Princeton. She wanted to study the culture of Wall Street, and she understood that the…Jan 27, 2022Jan 27, 2022
The Collective Interest by Xtina RossSpeaOn Meditation and the Unconscious: A Buddhist Monk and a Neuroscientist in ConversationBuddhism shares with science the task of examining the mind empirically; it has pursued, for two millennia, direct investigation of the…Jan 27, 2022Jan 27, 2022
The Collective Interest by Xtina RossEveryone Taught Computers To Play Chess — And Then They Left Us BehindI still remember the first board on which I ever played chess. It was an irregular and heavy slab of walnut, maybe 14 inches on a side…Jan 26, 2022Jan 26, 2022
The Collective Interest by Xtina RossYou should know, Film Independent Elects Brenda Robinson as Chair of Board of DirectorsFilm Independent President Josh Welsh announced today that entertainment attorney and producer Brenda Robinson has been elected the new…Jan 26, 2022Jan 26, 2022
The Collective Interest by Xtina RossExpert Physicists Uncover Geometric ‘Theory Space’In the 1960s, the charismatic physicist Geoffrey Chew espoused a radical vision of the universe, and with it, a new way of doing physics…Jan 26, 2022Jan 26, 2022
The Collective Interest by Xtina RossThe details are embedded in Sam Leam’s memory, even though it happened more than 30 years ago…Courtesy of Sam LeamJan 26, 2022Jan 26, 2022
The Collective Interest by Xtina RossEyyyyy Holy Mackerel, Where’d You Go?Summer in Atlantic Canada can be an unreliable thing, emerging reluctantly from the damp cold of spring. But a sure sign of summer’s…Jan 26, 2022Jan 26, 2022