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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Language, geography, age and other factors can all affect how fast a person talks. But sometimes, these perceived differences…
‘Performances of virility’ tend to coincide with beliefs that masculinity is either in crisis or under attack.
Oppenheimer’s knowledge of Sanskrit literature was more than cursory. He used quotes and parables from Sanskrit texts…
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…
Over the past 60 years, the duration of flights has remained roughly the same, while passengers have been subjected to more…
Afrofuturism, a mix of science fiction, magic realism and liberation politics, has shaped some hip-hop artists’ work for…
The framing of these stories of murder and mayhem have remained remarkably consistent since the invention of the printing…
What would you do if the industry you work in could clone your skills, style and even the way you look and sound?
A scholar explains how a concept that appeared in Nation of Islam literature nearly a century ago essentially defines hip-hop’s…
Media outlets increasingly construct narratives about collective reality based on what’s happening on social media.
Chinatowns once served as gateways for early Chinese immigrants. But the suburbs are the center of cultural and commercial…
Being a mom can be heartbreaking, empowering, scary, fulfilling and everything in between.
Complex as they are, Oppenheimer’s life and views of the bomb are far easier to wrestle with than the reality of nuclear…
A scholar of design who researches brand campaigns critiques the social media platform’s new look.
Dip hop artists move across the stage, hands flying through the air, as audiences pulse to the rhythm of a blasting bass…