Culture

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Politics & Society

Is this the world’s coolest street? Or is the system rigged?

Melbourne, Australia – or at least one of our streets – has topped yet another global ranking, but what does it mean to be officially ‘cool’ and who decides?

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Arts & Culture

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Quiz

Quiz: 100 years of Disney vs Warner Bros.

As two giants of Hollywood’s culture-defining studios turn 100 this year – Warner Bros. and Disney – test your knowledge about their creative history

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Arts & Culture

Gendered labour in the Australian arts

Researchers are using cultural data to highlight the obscured history of Australian women artists, revealing gender disparities and opportunities for positive change

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Arts & Culture

Building intercultural engagement through music

A new framework aims to celebrate and generate opportunities for cultural exchange and the expression of new cultural identities through shared music

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Education

AI means a rethink of teaching foreign languages

Machines are better than most human foreign language learners at translation, so teaching languages should now focus on global competence

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Arts & Culture

Translating data into soft power

Understanding the power of raw data for cultural institutions to create compelling stories has become easier with a new data mapping app

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Arts & Culture

Did Charles Dickens invent Christmas?

While the Victorian author didn’t actually invent Christmas, he did renew – and redefine – its generous spirit

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Arts & Culture

Conserving the world’s oldest processional dragon

For the last year, Grimwade Conservation Services has been conserving Loong 龍, the oldest intact Imperial processional dragon in the world

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Health & Medicine

Do you feel lucky?

Two new studies find that beliefs in luck and predicting the future vary around the world, for unexpected reasons

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Politics & Society

Seeing the invisible vulnerable in our cities

The Global South’s urban poor are often violently displaced and excluded from the processes and places which determine their lives

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