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Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Michel Faber review – bum notes | Michel Faber

Listen! These days everyone is telling you to listen, how to listen, why it’s important to listen. Active listening, deep listening, the art of listening: for a fee – sometimes a large fee – life-body-spirit magi will teach you how to refine your ears. Listen to your gut, they say. Your breathing. To others, too, the excluded. Listening is not just self-care; it’s ethics, social engagement, imaginative reparation. Often listening is more cant than action: it’s what every other politician promises to their constituents,…

CNBC interview with David Faber

Tesla CEO Elon Musk sat down for a sprawling interview with CNBC anchor David Faber on Tuesday following Tesla's 2023 annual shareholder meeting in Austin, Texas.During the course of their approximately hour long conversation, Musk reflected on:How he has managed a takeover of Twitter so far and what lies ahead. Among other things, he said Twitter's Community Notes feature has cost Twitter $40 million in business when two big clients reduced spending after their ads received community notes accusing them of false…

`The Exorcist` actor Ron Faber passes away

Veteran actor Ron Faber is no more. As per Variety, Faber died of lung cancer last month. He was 90. Faber`s career as an actor landed him roles in films including `The Exorcist`, `Tree of Guernica` and `The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover`, in addition to appearances on TV episodes of `Law and Order`, `Kojak` and `The Edge of Night`. In 1973`s `The Exorcist`, Faber played the role of Chuck, an assistant director who reveals to Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) that Burke Dennings (Jack MacGowran) has died. He was also…

Call us Homo faber, the toolmaker’

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain We need to dispel the arrogant and misguided idea that modern humans are superior to earlier human species. It is thanks in part to all our predecessors such as Neanderthals that we are who we are today. This is according to Marie Soressi, Professor of Hominin Diversity Archaeology.