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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain TikTok is a popular social media platform where users can create and share short videos, often featuring music, dance, comedy, and other creative content. Research published in the International Journal of Mobile Communications has compared TikTok usage between China and the United States of America and offers invaluable…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain If you're looking for a long-term relationship or to boost your social status, lower your pitch, according to researchers studying the effects of voice pitch on social perceptions. They found that lower voice pitch makes women and men sound more attractive to potential long-term partners, and lower voice pitch in males makes the individual sound more formidable and prestigious among other men.…

Credit: AUT University New research led by AUT academics shows how to enhance early childhood education for Samoan pepe meamea (infants and toddlers)—the majority of whom are taught in English-medium centers. The research points to ways of weaving key Samoan knowledge into mainstream centers to improve the well-being and sense of…

Film: What’s love got to do with it?Cast: Lily James, Shazad Latif, Shabana Azmi, Emma Thompson, Sajal AlyDirector: Shekhar KapurRating: 2.5/5Runtime: 107 mins This cross-cultural romantic comedy which blends British and Bollywood styles marks the celebrated Director of films like Masoom, Mr India, Bandit Queen, and Elizabeth, Shekhar Kapur’s return to filmmaking after a ten-year hiatus. Written by Jemima Goldsmith whose tryst with Pakistani life (as the former wife of dashing cricketer turned Pakistani…

One-horned antelope shown from various perspectives at a site southeast of Molteno. The necks of the two animals in the top left corner are turned, confirming that each head has one horn only. Note the yellow and white serpent. Credit: Cambridge Archaeological Journal (2023). DOI: 10.1017/S0959774323000045 There is a reason you have not come across a unicorn fossil in a museum exhibit, let alone seen one in a zoo or heard an…

The study looked at the variation in attitudes towards parenting across two samples of participants from different backgrounds, and found that cultural attitudes about parenting seem to relate to infant experience in some ways, but not others. Credit: Holden et al., CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Mothers in the samples from the U.K. and Uganda have different attitudes toward parenting, but while on a group…

In 1970s Ghana, nightlife was booming: live bands played James Brown, Kool and the Gang, Otis Redding and the Rolling Stones in packed dancehalls, and pop music from Europe and the US was dominating the radio. Traditional sounds were often sidelined as DJs turned to funk, soul, disco and rock – but these heady days didn’t last.Political turbulence stemming from a succession of coups and military dictatorships was soon to drive out many of the country’s most talented musicians. As the country headed towards an economic…