What Can We Learn From Celebrity Past Couples?

If you think rocky celebrity unions (and the public’s obsession with them) are a contemporary phenomenon, here’s Stephen Galloway’s bestselling book about celebrity marriage. Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh will tell you otherwise. “They were as famous lovers as Burton and Taylor or Bogie and Bacall, but their love seemed closer to hate,” writes the …

Helping Artificial Intelligence to Learn Indigenous Cultures

One such tool is IVOW’s Native Knowledge Graphor IKG, an early-development cultural engine that focuses on storytelling about Indigenous recipes and culinary practices. After meeting the IVOW team in 2018, Mr. Yarlott founded IKG, a kind of visualization of a dataset to capture Indigenous information. “You know in dramas, you see someone trying to solve …

What Can You Learn From a Celebrity Master Class on Empathy?

Williams is one of many celebrities to jump into this cultural trend. In the early 2000s, he founded a streetwear brand called Billionaire Boys Club, shared with a notorious 1980s Ponzi scheme; Wrote together in 2013 Robin Thicke hit “Blurred Lines,” which was criticized by feminists for its “greed.” He now sells goods under the …

Will Vaccines Stop Omicron? Scientists Compete to Learn.

As countries cut air links from southern Africa amid fears of another global surge of the coronavirus, scientists scrambled Sunday to gather data on the new Omicron variant, its capabilities and, perhaps most importantly, how effectively existing vaccines will protect against it. Initial findings are a mixed picture. Experts said in interviews that the variant …