“Ming Smith: Jazz Requiem—Notations in Blue” is on view at the Portland Museum of Art through June 7, 2026.

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

Stacker has chronicled social, scientific, and business inventions that changed America over hundreds of years.

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Ramesh Vinayakam, who has dedicated his life to popularising Indian music, explained that the Gamaka Box Notation System, patented in 2009, provides a precise, structured grid that enables musicians ...

This is one example of lessons learned by participants in TPOPS. The group is preparing for concerts on July 3 and 4 to ...

A dorning urban intersections and rising high at countryside interstate exits, the gas-station sign announces the mood of the ...

Guitar scholar John Stropes' new book is both a cultural history of Leo Kottke's landmark album and a guide to playing Kottke ...

Franciscan missionaries from Spain brought the very spirit of St. Francis to California and its native peoples.

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