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  • Digital Meets Traditional Art

    Digital Meets Traditional Art

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    Khushi Chauhan is a visdev artist and illustrator from India. She enjoys narrating stories and capturing emotions through both digital and analogue tools, such as pencils and watercolors. “When I want to warm up for work, I draw on my iPad. And when I just want to sketch and chill, I draw in my physical sketchbook,”…

  • Successful Sailing of the Magan Boat Since 2,100 BCE

    Successful Sailing of the Magan Boat Since 2,100 BCE

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    A 59-foot-long reproduction of an ancient Near Eastern trading vessel has successfully sailed off the coast of Abu Dhabi. The vessel, called a ‘Magan Boat’ in ancient times after the name of the area encompassing the UAE and parts of Oman today, was built with raw materials described on an ancient clay tablet and using…

  • NASA’s Curiosity Rover Makes a Stunning Find

    NASA’s Curiosity Rover Makes a Stunning Find

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    “Finding a field of stones made of pure sulfur is like finding an oasis in the desert,” said Curiosity’s project scientist, Ashwin Vasavada of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “It shouldn’t be there, so now we have to explain it. Discovering strange and unexpected things is what makes planetary exploration so exciting.” It’s…

  • Electricity-Free Clay Refrigerator Saves Factory

    Electricity-Free Clay Refrigerator Saves Factory

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    In 2001, the founder of Mitticool ceramics learned many of his customers in India don’t have regular access to electricity. So he invented a fridge made out of clay. It keeps food 8 degrees cooler than the outside air, but it doesn’t need any electricity to run. And while other ceramics companies in the region…

  • Teaching Children to Think and Innovate Through Art

    Teaching Children to Think and Innovate Through Art

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    While AI may be controversial to many, Tian Taiquan has embraced the technology and, in 2023, pioneered the first AI co-creation art program for children. In a recent interview Tian Taiquan, founder of the Erduoren children’s art brand and a renowned contemporary Chinese artist, discussed his innovative art education approach. “Our goal is to teach…

  • Endurance Running – One of Man’s Earliest Hunting Techniques

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    Science has an interesting article about an often-overlooked hunting weapon used by humans for millennia: our legs. “For decades, some anthropologists have argued that endurance running was among the first hunting techniques employed by early hominins in Africa. Advocates suggest subsequent millennia spent chasing down prey shaped many unique human features, including our springy arched…

  • Mexican Artisans Collaborate with Adidas to Celebrate Sports

    Mexican Artisans Collaborate with Adidas to Celebrate Sports

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    Although industrialization is efficient and clearly necessary to meet the needs of large populations, what is lost in mass-produced objects is the soul, artistry and unique style of the craftsman. So I was heartened when I came across a piece about Adidas’ collaboration with Mexican artisans to “create stunning pieces that celebrate both traditional Latin…

  • Preserving Cultural Crafts

    Preserving Cultural Crafts

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    I’m so heartened by the stories of individuals, families and governments striving to preserve and revive traditional crafts all over the world. In the on-line publication YourStory, Saranya Chakrapani features Shahida Khanum’s efforts to revive the indigenous crafts of her ethnic tribal community of the Gujjars who live in a remote village in Kashmir. At…

  • Sunday Prayer

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    Leaves of Grass [Song of Myself] [1] I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease….observing a spear of summer grass. [2] Houses and rooms are full of perfumes….the shelves…

  • Shaolin Monks’ Incredible Acrobatics

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    “There’s this high-level action,” photographer Steve McCurry told CNN of the photo’s composition in a video call from his home in Philadelphia. “And these other boys are just hanging out.” The image is featured in Magnum’s Square Print Sale, which ends May 5, alongside other photographers’ works. He shot it back in 2004, as part…