The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851)

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While many creatures in this comic bestiary represent specific people, others appear to satirize broader nineteenth-century types. The authors claim…

Can AI catch what doctors miss? | Eric Topol

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AI could propel the biggest transformation in the history of medicine, says physician-scientist Eric Topol. He explains how sophisticated AI…

"Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge… It can tell us when we’re…"

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Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge… It can tell us when…

The Presentation of Sources and Rights Labelling Gets a Big Overhaul

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Each source institution also has its own dedicated page on the site, linked to from the table, which communicates all…

Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (12/10/23)

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Killing Joke  “Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian, airs 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern every…

10 Surreal Cities Inhabited by Animals

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Before 2007, more people lived in rural areas than in cities. Since then, humans have become more geographically concentrated, and…

Unequal opera-tunities: gender inequality and non-standard work in US opera production

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The authors find that women, as a group, experienced gender-based disadvantage across the key creative roles of opera production, but…

Fraktur Folk Art (ca. 1750–1820)

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Fraktur has its origins in folk art traditions from Alsace, Switzerland, and the Rhineland, but in America it became more…

Music Review: I Don't Want You Anymore – Cherry Glazerr

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(Secretly Canadian) If there's one constant in Cherry Glazerr's vigorous alt-rock through the years, it's Clementine Creevy never sounding like…

Images from the Collective Unconscious: Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn and the Eranos Archive

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In the 1930s, Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, mystic and founder of the multidisciplinary Eranos forum, began compiling a diverse visual archive that…