Art and Culture

It’s been more than a year since the Trump administration dismantled Voice of America, the largest U.S. international broadcaster, saying “taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda.” Yet the agency is costing the…
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For almost a century, The Jazz Singer has been celebrated as the world’s first feature-length film to include synchronised dialogue (known as a “talkie”), and English as the first language of cinema. But a chance discovery threatens to…
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She deserved the prize, first of all, as the major practitioner of literary nonfiction. The committee has historically overlooked this genre. – 3 Quarks Daily Source link
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Because data, and how we present it, tells a story, it’s important to transform results responsibly into visuals. A good visualization can show you really interesting patterns in your data; however, a bad visualization, like truncating…
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Theaster Gates poses for a portrait at the Pickard China factory in Antioch, Ill. The 53-year-old, Chicago-based…
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On 29 March 1516, the Venetian Senate voted to create the world’s first ‘ghetto’. All Jews then living in the city – as well as any others who might come later – were ordered to move immediately to a small island in the northeastern…
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The internet is full of resources for self-directed learning: for any subject, you can easily find blog posts about essential texts, links to university syllabi, and hours of YouTube lectures. When I attempted to make use of these…
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Sons de L’âme - Houston Ballet. Photo by Sebastien Mathe The choreographer on casting 16 dancers who are “in the hands of the pianist” in his Chopin ballet, which is “like a diary”, performed so quietly that every breath and…
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NewsOct 7, 2026by Lauren BrownMax Spero, chief executive of PangramThe co-founder of Pangram has defended its AI detection tool from suggestions that it disproportionately penalises authors of colour, while saying there has been a “huge…
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He had created “hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs,” then dispersed billions of automated streams among them so that the bots could avoid raising any red flags by all targeting the same song at once. All together, the fake…
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