Tag: Entertainment

A stroll in the woods can help reduce stress levels; so too words of encouragement from nursery children. Now a Belgian sound designer is lifting people’s moods with the noise of cats purring. Visitors to his website include those without cats of their own who nevertheless enjoy the soothing strain. With the help of a generator, purring can be...

Music streaming services offer ready-made playlists for any taste. For film portals, an algorithm learns from our preferences. This here, in turn, helps us to learn. Anyone looking for films starring or made by Black people will be delighted by a new website recently launched by a Brooklyn woman. The site contains an index of 250 films made between...

Children grow up knowing what they want to be. Many end up realizing their dreams. Take this young man from Leeds, for example. Born with an extra chromosome, his parents encouraged him that anything was possible from an early age. Now 20, he is about to embark on a career for a major UK children’s TV channel - becoming...

A little pony or skeleton key chain for your school satchel - magazine publishers work with the toy industry in order to make their products attractive to children. However, they hadn’t reckoned with a ten-year-old girl from a Welsh coastal town. Shocked by the potential environmental damage caused by the cheap plastic toys found inside her favorite magazines, she...

From the ugly duckling to the proud swan. The animals are elegant and white. Just like the majority of cast members who perform Tchaikovsky’s most famous piece the world over. But the Paris Opera is committing itself to a new era of diversity. Up until recently roles of color were played by white dancers wearing masks. Five Black dancers...

Painting the town red on a Saturday night? Going dancing during lockdown? Online DJ streams bring the beats into your living room, and DJ themselves are finding new ways of personalizing their sets. Playlists develop organically with input from participants, creating a more diverse, collaborative experience. And not just that. People previously unable to be physically present (because of,...