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The world of musical entertainment offers a variety of diverse voices, but often individuals are overlooked and not awarded for their contribution. Individuals and organizations involved in music production, or simply any musicophiles, will appreciate this report, Inclusion in the Recording Studio? Gender and Race/Ethnicity of Artists, Songwriters & Producers across 900 Popular Songs from...

Open Arizona is a collection of open-access titles from the University of Arizona Press, part of the Humanities Open Book program, jointly sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The collection consists of 32 critical works from the press (including some that had gone out of print), but which are now available digitally. The topical focus woven...

To teach students about nature and inspire them with wonder for the natural world, there's really nothing better than a field trip. Yet if the learning challenges of the past two years have revealed anything, it's that education must be flexible to meet students where they are. These virtual field trips are a perfect example, offering educators in ecology, biology, life sciences, and other topics...

Auto Tab Discard (ATD) is a browser extension that does what it says on the tin - automatically discards tabs after a user-specified period of inactivity. Users can exempt tabs from being discarded in two ways. First, they may provide a white list of sites whose tabs should never be discarded. Second, users can construct conditional rules based on information about the tab (e.g., Is it pinned?...

Scikit is a platform for machine learning and scientific computing using Python. It combines the NumPy, SciPy, and matplotlib libraries to provide "simple and efficient tools for predictive data analysis." The page linked above provides a number of example applications, including classification, regression analysis, clustering, dimensionality reduction on multivariate data, model selection, and...