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A New Era of Creative Partnerships
In a new paper in a Nature Human Behavior special issue on AI, researcher Janet Rafner from Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies and Center for Hybrid Intelligence at Aarhus University and Prof. Jacob Sherson, director of the Center for Hybrid Intelligence, together with international partners, discuss research and societal
The team of researchers argue that we should direct our attention to understanding and developing co-creativity, the interaction between humans and machines towards what is
Rafner comments: To date, most studies on human-AI co-creativity come from the field of human-computer
While these
“Right now, we need to move the conversation away from questions like Can AI be creative? One reason for this is that
We,
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Chinese animations (动画) are booming
The “Black Cat Delective”, released 40 years ago, was a childhood favorite for many Chinese. Since then, Chinese cartoons have come a long way. While “Black Cat Detective” was simply drawn, current cartoons feature
These recent
In the 1960s, China’s animation industry saw a big downturn as American and Japanese films
Light Chaser Animation, a Beijing-based studio, has contributed to the popularity of cartoons in China. Its production “30,000 Miles from Chang’ an”
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How Long Is a Second?
The length of a second depends on how you’re measuring it. There are 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute — so surely a second is 1/86400, of a day, right? Well, it turns out that
“The second was
In the 16th century, people turned to technological solutions to this problem, and the first recognizable mechanical clocks began to
By around 1940, quartz crystal clocks (石英钟) had become the new gold standard. However, problems arose, and this was where atomic clocks came in. “Atoms exist only in particular energy states and can only change from one state to another by
In fact, scientists are discussing whether it’s time to redefine the second again. But while several important questions still need to be answered before this
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A team of scientists led by Alejandro Arteaga, grantee of The Explorers Club Discovery Expeditions and researcher at Khamai Foundation, discovered three new cryptozoic (living underground) snakes dwelling under graveyards (墓地) and churches in remote towns in the Andes region of Ecuador.
It was an exploration that led to the most
First published in the journal, Zookeys, Arteaga and his team named the small brown color-patterned snakes in honor of institutions or people supporting the exploration and
The Discovery Ground Snake (Atractus discovery) was found underground in a small graveyard. Two
Atractus discovery was named to honor The Explorers Club Discovery Expedition Grants
Atractus zgap was named in honor of the Zoological Society for the Conservation of Species and Populations (ZGAP), a(n)
Atractus michaelsabini was named in honor of Michael Sabin, grandson of American philanthropist and conservationist Andrew Sabin. Through conservation organization Re:wild, the Sabin family has supported field research of threatened reptiles and has protected thousands of acres of
“The discovery of these new snakes is only the first step towards a much larger conservation project,” says Arteaga. “We have already started the process of establishing a nature
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