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Alvin Lucier''s "brain" is still composing music 3 years after his death. – Photo credit: Guy Ben-Ary/YouTube & By Non Event – Alvin Lucier, CC BY-SA 2.0

Music, Pop Culture

A composer died in 2021, but a lab-grown version of his brain is still making new ‘music’

Evan Porter

4/19/2025
Youth-led party for community engagement, MEDEA, Tanzania Captured by James Roh for Pura

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Culture, Education, Empowered Women, Equality, Family, Identity, Modern Families

The next generation of female leaders has arrived. Here’s how they’re making sure they (and every girl) get a chance to learn.

Sarah Watts

3/8/2026
The Goodbye Line project – Photo credit: Adam Trunell

Community, Joy

‘The Goodbye Line’ lets strangers listen to people’s heartfelt goodbyes on public pay phones

Cecily Knobler

4/17/2025
Young girl with alopecia removes her hat in public for first time. – Photo credit: abbywrenartistry/Instagram

Community, Joy

Makeup artist with alopecia inspires young girl to remove her hat in public for first time

Emily Shiffer

4/8/2025
Cursive is a fading art. – Photo credit: pxhere.com

Education, Learning

Gen Xers and Millennials watch Gen Z kids try, and gloriously fail, to write in cursive

Cecily Knobler

4/8/2025
The "Mona Lisa" and thousands of other art pieces were hidden around France during WWII. – Photo credit: Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz) (left), public domain (right)

Education, History (Education)

How a clever French museum director secretly saved the Louvre’s artwork from Nazi plunder

Annie Reneau

4/4/2025