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Baboon
Baboons, those Bad Boys of the Old World, have a reputation… Wily, cunning, vicious… these are all words that are used to describe our primate cousins. Baboons are seen as…
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The Spotify playlist
Each week a playlist of audio is created to go along with the blog. The playlist, on the Spotify platform, is made up of songs and sounds that have some…
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Iconic Australian design
In the 1980s and ’90s, jumpers in Australia became startling. Beginning with Coogi, a fashion label first established in Melbourne under the name Cuggi, the bright colours and bold patterning…
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Zimbabwe’s ancient musical instruments
A recent study has been looking at identifying musical instruments depicted in Zimbabwean rock art. Rock art is found on almost every continent, Antarctica being the exception for obvious reasons.…
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Cataloguing the collection
The textile collection is in the process of being catalogued… at a distance. The collection, currently housed upstairs in the Regent Theatre in Māwhera Greymouth, is making its way gradually…
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Creativity wins out
The experience of writing the blog this week has been… well… interesting. Each week I work on the blog for four or five hours. I select the stories that I…
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How Typing Affected Nietzsche’s Consciousness
This article on the MIT Press Reader describes how it appears the act of typing affected the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s thinking. When Nietzsche bought a typewriter he noticed that his…
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AI and the Spotify playlist
Each week a playlist is curated on Spotify, the audio streaming platform, to go along with the blog entries. This week Spotify’s AI function has been tasked with compiling a…
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Weaving and technology
This article has been supported with research using AI and has been fact-checked and corrected by hand. To read the original AI results go to the bottom of the page…
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AI and image generation
In researching this week’s blog entries Artificial Intelligence (AI) was a tool. Harnessing the power of data to create new images is powerful but it currently has limitations. The images…
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