Art in Real Life: Rare African script offers clues to the evolution of writing

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Articles from other new sources (standard media outlets and scientific postings) covering contemporary issues and activities with an Art in Real Life POV.

Rare African script offers clues to the evolution of writing
What should we do about paintings with racist titles?
Ida B. Wells Is the Latest Historical Black Icon to Be Turned Into a Barbie Doll
A teacher hoped to connect with students with disabilities. She found a way through music.
New US stamp pays tribute to Edmonia Lewis, celebrated Black and Ojibwe sculptor of the 19th century
Study reveals brain networks enabling human conversation
Why the first Buddhas in art wore finely folded Greek tunics
How Black Americans used portraits and family photographs to defy stereotypes
Yellow Gadsden flag, prominent in Capitol takeover, carries a long and shifting history
Why beauty is ‘fundamental to the human experience’
The way colonialism has affected our understanding of beauty
Humans’ gift for charades helps explain the origin of language
In hatboxes, pouches and bags lie the items that define us
How gender affects who we are attracted to
Study: Brain mechanisms involved in learning also drive social conformity
How Mrs. Claus embodied 19th-century debates about women’s rights
Just in time for Christmas: Four Jesus bobbleheads, including an ornament
Why Germans celebrate school with a cardboard cone
How did Uncle Sam become a symbol for the United States?
The Great ‘West Side Story’ Debate
Why are barns painted red?
Humpback whale song is about finding, not attracting, whales
Art illuminates the beauty of science – and could inspire the next generation of scientists young and old
Opinion: Take all books off the shelves. They’re just too dangerous.
Hair Curlers in Public? That’s Just How They Roll.
For Native Americans, a river is more than a ‘person,’ it is also a sacred place
How Native students fought back against abuse and assimilation at US boarding schools
Why researchers are turning to music as a possible treatment for stroke, brain injuries and even Parkinson’s
Hedwig and the Angry Inch: A love story that broke taboos
Adele 30: the psychology of why sad songs make us feel good
Your Brain Is Like Beethoven
Goddard school district orders 29 books removed from circulation
I gave up a lot of traditions when I moved to America. Here’s how I’m reclaiming them.
Veterans Day: How crosses and mementos help these Marines remember fallen comrades
Happy stories synch brain activity more than sad stories
Caring, confident dads have structurally different brains
Opinion: Why books have become a battlefield in Texas
What does being a ‘cultural fit’ actually mean?
A Patriarchal Tradition That Just Won’t Budge
ART; Is It Art? Is It Good? And Who Says So?
Utilitarian Object or Sculpture?
What’s behind the magic of live music?
Fathers’ Brains Respond Differently to Daughters Than Sons
Music Enables Kids to Learn & Express Emotion
Creating Harmony: How Music Can Support Social Emotional Development
How books help children discuss difficult feelings – and feel less alone
Cosmetic Surgery: Is It Science or Art?
Storytelling as an Art Form
The etiquette school for China’s super-rich
What’s behind the magic of live music?
For scores of years, newspapers printed hate, leading to racist terror lynchings and massacres of Black Americans
It’s time to ‘shift from the White male gaze’: Two Latinas in Hollywood on what it means to tell their stories
Merriam-Webster promoted a word game littered with offensive terms — the latest reckoning over language in the puzzle world
What is Blackfishing and Why has Jesy Nelson Been Accused of it?
We Are Beast Machines
‘History wars’ in the U.S. and Canada provoked by a racial reckoning with the past
Florida city’s first Black female firefighter sues after mural depicts her as white
Lego to remove gender bias from its toys after findings of child survey
Five on the Black Hand Side:Origins and Evolutions of the Dap
Sailors, Marines seek religious accommodation to wear beards
What Ötzi the prehistoric iceman can teach us about the use of tattoos in ceremonial healing or religious rites
Asia’s isle of five separate genders
Taquile: Where manliness is based on knitting
The black cowboys of Chicago’s South Side
The blue men of the Sahara
Ancient Americans made art deep within the dark zones of caves throughout the Southeast
How to be a man
Shaggy and strong, or shorn and sharp? Hair’s evolving symbolism
Fitting in is human: forcing someone to fit in is oppression
Trump Was Allegedly Kept From ‘Brink of Rage’ by Song From ‘Cats’
The incredible journey of the toyi-toyi, southern Africa’s protest dance
Singing Therapy Helps Stroke Patients Speak Again
Tent city nights: Gaza’s dance of resistance unites Palestinians
When it comes to communication skills—maybe we’re born with it?
Why Puerto Rican Bomba Music Is Resistance
The Pride Flag Has a Representation Problem
The Unorthodox Art of an Ultra-Orthodox Community
Gold Teeth are Beautiful on Their Own Terms
What happens when domestic duties shift? These couples found out.
Lizzo opens up about the ‘final frontier’ in loving herself: Her hair
Book banning isn’t a thing of the past. We spoke to authors who have experienced it.
The future of the Black church will include its musical heritage
It’s dangerous when we allow the losers to rewrite history
Gender Pronouns Are Changing. It’s Exhilarating.
Study: Our eyes and brain work together to create a ‘pipeline’ of meaning
France launches Islamic art shows across 18 cities to combat rising Islamophobia
What is the Moon Festival? A scholar of Chinese religions explains
When did humans start wearing clothes? Discovery in a Moroccan cave sheds some light
Therapeutic potential of Mozart for medication-resistant epilepsy
The Mike Huckabee Children’s Books Masquerading as Education
Taking Indigenous culture viral
Tattoos have a long history going back to the ancient world – and also to colonialism
How threats of hellfire helped keep ‘immodest’ women in their place – from the ancient world to ‘My Unorthodox Life’
What Is ‘American Fashion’ Now?
Lorde rerecorded five ‘Solar Power’ songs in Māori language
Childhood gender nonconformity in boys linked to early androgens
When Your Favorite Songs Were Banned in the Wake of 9/11
Why some Muslim women feel empowered wearing hijab, a headscarf
Statue of Christopher Columbus in Mexico City to be replaced by Indigenous female figure
For Navajo, crowded homes have always been a lifeline. The pandemic threatens that.