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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.

Angry Brazilians dress as reptiles for their Covid jabs to mock Bolsonaro
There’s a long history of dances being pilfered for profit – and TikTok is the latest battleground
Broadcaster Apologizes for ‘Inappropriate’ Images Aired During Olympic Parade
The Unmaking of Biblical Womanhood
How the brain paints the beauty of a landscape
The gender-fluid look that fans love
Can listening to classical music really boost intelligence?
The little-known origin of the term ‘fake news’
The origin of a 30,000-year-old haunting image
Olympics 2021: Nearly Every Country Had a Female Flag Bearer at the Opening Ceremony
Why Andie MacDowell Decided to Go Gray Even Though Her Managers Said It ‘Wasn’t Time’
A Notoriously Hateful Japanese Composer’s Music Just Opened the Tokyo Olympics
The Dark Truth Behind Elizabeth I’s Iconic White Makeup
Bare-Chested Tongan Flag Bearer Back in Action at Tokyo Games
Cleveland’s MLB team announces its new name, will rebrand as the Guardians
Eyes wide shut: How newborn mammals dream the world they’re entering
Art & Magic: A Conversation Between Wayne White and Tyler Mahan Coe
How We Tell Stories in Texas
This ingenious Oreo packaging makes it easy to hide your cookies from your kids
How ‘In God We Trust’ bills are helping advance a Christian nationalist agenda
Why do hardcore football fans behave like rutting stags?
What is cultural appropriation, and how does it differ from cultural appreciation?
Talk of toxic masculinity puts the blame in all the wrong places
Maybe it’s time to admit that the Statue of Liberty has never quite measured up
Padma Lakshmi on Food Rituals
The halo: A symbol that spread around the world
Why Do We Celebrate July 4 With Fireworks?
How Thomas Paine’s ‘Common Sense’ Helped Inspire the American Revolution
Meet the Young Black Women Making Country Music — and Finding Success — On Their Own Terms
Cheer for Black girls with orange hair, long nails, tats, and lashes
Why Musicians Have Better Memory
Opinion: Homophobes don’t care about same-sex love. They object to the sex.
Opinion: Deb Haaland: My grandparents were stolen from their families as children. We must learn about this history.
Carribean Culture: ‘I wanted to put my culture out there’
A revival of Indigenous throat singing
Emmys will now allow winners to remove gender-specific terms from statues
“I Probably Modeled Him on Something I’d Heard on The Wire”
The ‘Mozart effect’ shown to reduce epileptic brain activity, new research reveals
French Muslim women push back on the politics of the hijab
Native Americans are transporting a 5,000-pound totem pole to D.C. from the Pacific Northwest
What Greek epics taught me about the special relationship between fathers and sons
Why This Flag Day Is a Reminder That the Meaning of American Patriotism Is More Complicated Than You Might Think
Juneteenth
Many female animals are evolving to look more attractive to mates
O say can you see, what 100 versions of the Star-Spangled Banner reveal about America
A student was barred from graduation for wearing the wrong shoes. So a teacher gave him the shoes off his own feet.
‘The city is ours, not the Mafia’s’: public art project in Palermo unites community against organised crime in Sicily
10 hip-hop songs to take you on a voyage into space
Who’s afraid of Cruella de Vil? New stories are humanising female villains of old
The 100 stories that shaped the world
Why Frankenstein is the story that defines our fears
The Frankenstein’s monsters of the 21st Century
Where do fairy tales come from?
The children’s book that’s really for adults
The images that fought the Nazis
Is the nude selfie a new art form?
Tartan: The misunderstood icon of ‘Scottishness’
The coded messages in hit songs
The gender biases that shape our brains
The Millennial Vernacular of Fatphobia
What Your Music Taste Reveals About You
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women are bucking the patriarchal, authoritarian stereotype of their community
Rooting out racism in children’s books
Faith in numbers: Fox News is must-watch for white evangelicals, a turnoff for atheists…and Hindus, Muslims really like CNN
How do Americans feel about the anthem at sporting events? It depends which Americans you ask.
Why We Speak More Weirdly at Home
Masks are off — which means men will start telling women to ‘Smile!’ again
Teaching America’s truth
His language is dying. This Senegalese singer is fighting to save it with music.
How Plywood From Last Year’s Protests Became Art
Prom send-offs celebrate Black girls and their communities
The Lakota Ghost Dance and the Massacre at Wounded Knee
Why Is the Wizard of Oz So Wonderful?
LETTER REVEALING ROALD DAHL’S SECRETS TO GOOD STORYTELLING TO GO UNDER HAMMER
Stereotypes Are Rife Among Asian and Pacific Islander Film Roles, Study Finds
The history of sneakers: from commodity to cultural icon
A Beautiful Guide to Colors in the Natural World, Revisited 200 Years Later
The Jean War between millennials and Gen Z cannot be won
More indelible than ink: Tattoo businesses flourish again
What Is ‘Cheugy’? You Know It When You See It.
Off with her head! Infrared technology shows how a 15th-century French king used a paintbrush to replace one wife with another
Hear a Harlem Choir Rejoice Again
Recasting the way Muslims are seen, one actor at a time
Gene Weingarten: Take me out to the Old. Word. Game.
Diversity in modeling is no longer simply a matter of race and ethnicity, size and age. It’s everything and anything.
Twisting LeBron James’s words, a fake Saturn photo and other news literacy lessons
‘Please listen’: Here’s what AAPI storytellers want you to know
Flight attendants’ roles have changed, but the stereotypes have not
I want my daughter to live unapologetically in a world free of gender expectations, including mine
The Joy of Black Hair
The Mysterious Origins of the Cerne Abbas Giant
I found Korean culture sexist and stifling. Then my kid fell in love with K-pop.
There’s something in my eye: why we happy-cry and what it does for us
Chivalry is not about opening doors, but protecting society’s most vulnerable from attack
What can you do with unwanted holy cards and Grandma’s religious statues? Well, that depends
3 ways music educators can help students with autism develop their emotions
Why it’s good for kids to have friends from different socioeconomic backgrounds
How Black poets and writers gave a voice to ‘Affrilachia’
The Pilgrims’ attack on a May Day celebration was a dress rehearsal for removing Native Americans
What triangular patterns on rocks may reveal about human ancestors