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    THE BIG PONDER #36The Street

    As a lifelong photographer and filmmaker, Harald Rumpf has spent decades exploring the cities that his subjects call home. In this episode, he uses archival interviews and personal anecdotes to reconstruct a lifetime of experiences documenting life in the streets.

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    Diverse Perspectives on Techno Techno Worlds

    As a global phenomenon, techno has not only shaped music history, but has also set impulses that influence contemporary culture, art, pop culture, media consumption, and technologies. After the summer, this exhibit will travel south via Houston, New York, Boston, and Los Angeles.

  • Though many might find it hard to believe, Mannheim has a lot to offer party-goers: a neon sign in the hip Junbusch district. Photo (detail): © Jan Zipperer

    City contours MannheimIt’s hip to be square

    For many, Mannheim is just an annoying ICE stopover that makes the trip from Frankfurt to Stuttgart that much longer. And it could be argued that passengers on a train do not get to see this city on the Rhine and Neckar rivers from its best side. But author Jan Zipperer is confident that Mannheim has a lot to offer.

  • The press in Russia - between government restrictions and the side effects of the digital transformation Photo (detail): © Kirill Zharkoy on Unsplash

    Journalism in Russia“Distinguishing between Facts and Fiction”

    The hope of an editor-in-chief that journalists in Russia may die of old age points out the risks facing the profession there. Journalist and media scholar Ksenia Luchenko writes about the gruelling business of reorting and free expression in her home country and the crisis of traditional journalism.
     

  • What constitutes a “normal” face? The Normalizi.ng project is an experimental online research project using machine-learning to analyze and understand how we decide who looks more normal. Photo (detail): © Normalizi.ng

    Images and BiasWhat Do Normal People Look Like?

    What is normal? And what constitutes a normal face? Our brains are constantly analyzing and classifying every face we encounter, and we as people are not alone in this. A whole field of science and technology analyzes these sub-attentive cognitive processes and breaks them down into statistical normalities. Through machine learning, facial recognition is even being used to categorize and predict human behavior.
     

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