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Retrospectives on Yayoi Kusama often point to mental illness as her source of inspiration. But before she made it big, she was a young girl inspired by traveling the world for the first time, writes art history PhD candidate Audrey Storm.

A civil rights attorney and USC Dornsife lecturer explains how to navigate problems at the polls.

As part of The Conversations’ “Curious Kids” series, USC Dornsife’s Kiki Crawford describes how an entire team of electricity, calcium, energy and proteins all work together to move your muscles.

As the United States exerts growing pressure on Mexico, USC Dornsife political scientist Pamela Starr, author of The Making of Mexico, explains what Americans often misunderstand about the country next door and why the relationship matters.

What communities and businesses really need is information they can act on, with examples of what’s worked elsewhere and why — and what fails, argues a decision science scholar.

A professor of international relations counted the sitting leaders on over 1,000 of the world’s banknotes and coins; almost every one of them is a king or a queen.

Struggling to feel grateful? Try thinking differently about what caused the person’s actions, says USC Dornsife philosophy professor Mark Schroeder.

As part of The Conversations’ “Curious Kids” series, an astronomer explains how a runaway greenhouse effect has made the surface temperature of Venus hot enough to melt lead.