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Instead of reserving our best creative selves for tentpole occasions — Super Bowl, shopping seasons, awards — we should infuse creativity into everyday moments, says TikTok’s Shant Oknayan.

Like the printing press and the internet, Bitcoin is an invention that addresses many of the challenges of evangelism.

The University of Luxembourg welcomes Prof Christine L Borgman to lead this talk titled "Big data, little data or no data?". While the humanities have caught the “big data” wave, “little data” remains the norm in those many domains where evidence is scarce and labour-intensive to acquire. Until recently, data was considered part of the process of scholarship, essential but largely invisible. In the “big data” era, data have become valuable products to be captured, shared, reused, an...