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The government’s use of the Hindi word for ‘India’ revives debates over whether Hindi should be the national language…
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A psychiatrist explains the many ways anxiety can hinder, color or compel creativity.
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Iranian artists are showing renewed determination to promote freedom as a cultural necessity in Iran, even in the face of…
A lecturer in English literature gets her students to examine children’s books through the lens of race, class and sexuality.
Researchers had college students and AI take a standardized test in creative thinking, and all of them were scored by trained…
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AI can streamline the painstaking work of mixing and editing tracks. But it’s also easy to see how AI-generated music…
On Aug. 11, 1973, a block party in the Bronx spawned a genre that would go on to influence nearly all aspects of US culture…
By bridging culture and computation, heritage algorithms challenge the myth of ‘primitive cultures’ and forge a new…