Tag: reducing
Vast New Study Shows a Key to Reducing Poverty: More Friendships Between Rich and Poor
Jimarielle Bowie at her alma mater, Angelo Rodriguez High School, in Fairfield, Calif. A lawyer, she credits some of her success to the friendships she made in high school.
Marissa Leshnov for The New York Times
Over the last four decades, the financial circumstances into which children have been born have increasingly determined where they have ended up as adults. But an expansive new study, based on billions of social media connections, has uncovered a powerful exception to that pattern
What science says about reducing wind instruments’ coronavirus spread
The last time I played clarinet with my band was on March 10, 2020. It was a typical Tuesday evening rehearsal: About 10 musicians crowded into a small basement room, sipping beers and chatting between tunes. Brass instruments, woodwinds and drums blared, with bass lines audible from the stairwell.
Since 2004, the Rude Mechanical Orchestra has practiced in the same space, a couple of blocks from the East River in Brooklyn, N.Y. The room is cramped — chairs and music