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Multibasket – No One Wins
Read more: Multibasket – No One WinsOn the small island of Teshima in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea, Multibasket – No One Wins invites visitors to reconsider competition, collaboration, and the intersection of art and play. Created by conceptual artists Jasmina Llobet & Luis Pons for the…
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Food Force: The First Humanitarian Aid Game
Read more: Food Force: The First Humanitarian Aid GameFrom Konami Digital Entertainment (makers of Dance Dance Revolution, Castlevania, and other hits) comes a significant expansion of their long-running support of the World Food Programme’s gaming initiatives. The result is the re-emergence of Food Force, one of the most…
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Birds Aren’t Real
Read more: Birds Aren’t RealIn Pittsburgh, Memphis and Los Angeles, massive billboards recently popped up declaring, “Birds Aren’t Real.” On Instagram and TikTok, Birds Aren’t Real accounts have racked up hundreds of thousands of followers, and YouTube videos about it have gone viral. Last…
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Sneaking the Jews out of Denmark
Read more: Sneaking the Jews out of DenmarkIn September 1943, the Nazis prepared for the deportation of all Danish Jews to the concentration camps and death. But Georg Duckwitz, a German diplomat with a conscience, deliberately leaked the plans for the roundup, which was due to begin…
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Kony 2012
Read more: Kony 2012In 2004, the United Nations called the LRA crisis in northern Uganda the “most forgotten, neglected humanitarian emergency in the world.” Invisible Children was founded to change that and to fight against the false notion that our responsibility to each…
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On Campus, Opening Up Conversations About Sex
Read more: On Campus, Opening Up Conversations About SexBy DOUGLAS QUENQUA CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — For a table set up by a campus student group, this one held some unusual items: a gynecologist’s speculum, diaphragms, condoms (his and hers) and several packets of lubricant. Nearby, two students batted an…
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Tsinghua students use Women’s Day to joke about ending presidential term limits
Read more: Tsinghua students use Women’s Day to joke about ending presidential term limitsStudents at China’s prestigious Tsinghua University are celebrating International Women’s Day with banners making light of a proposed constitutional amendment to scrap term limits for the country’s president. One banner joked that a boyfriend’s term should also have no limits,…
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Degrees of My Deaf Rage
Read more: Degrees of My Deaf RageChristine Sun Kim’s series Degrees of My Deaf Rage is a series of charcoal drawings of charts that depict the artist’s varying degrees of what she calls “deaf rage.” These frustrations are categorized by situations: deaf rage in the art…
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GreatFire
Read more: GreatFireGreatFire was set up in 2011 by three anonymous individuals to counter the “Great Firewall of China”, the systematic blocking by the Chinese government of any website deemed controversial, including any that touch on news, human rights, democracy or religion.…
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South American Traffic Mimes
Read more: South American Traffic Mimes“Mimes gesture as they stand in a crosswalk in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday Oct. 7, 2011. The mayor of the city’s eastern district of Sucre has launched a unique program aimed to encourage civility among reckless drivers and careless pedestrians, putting…
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Imagination Playground
Read more: Imagination PlaygroundWhen award-winning architect David Rockwell started spending time in playgrounds with his young children, he was disturbed by the lack of imagination and variation in the way kids interact with standardized playground equipment. He spent five years developing the Imagination…
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Activism at the Met Gala
Read more: Activism at the Met GalaNow that the dust has settled from the Met Gala, with all the excitement over Kylie Jenner’s bathroom selfie and Rihanna’s body-swallowing Comme des Garçons florals, it is worth pausing to consider a red carpet moment most people missed: the…