Date archives "February 2018"

Adorable Culture

Everyday Heroes Making Comics and Art

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Sasha Matthews - Wikipedia
Sasha Matthews – Wikipedia
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Girl Raises More Than $2,000 For The ACLU With 'Everyday Superheroes' Art
Girl Raises More Than $2,000 For The ACLU With ‘Everyday Superheroes’ Art
$2,298 and counting!
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How a kid cartoonist avoided Scholastic's digital sharecropping trap
How a kid cartoonist avoided Scholastic’s digital sharecropping trap
“I’m an 8th grade middle school student at a public school in NYC. In my humanities class we are studying muckraking journalism, and we have an assignment to write a muckraking article about a modern issue.  …. Coincidentally, I recently had a personal experience with a muckrake-able issue. I chose to make lemonade out of lemons, and got a very interesting topic for my assignment–and one that I could write about both professionally and privately.”
boingboing.net

Profile on Medium: https://amysmartgirls.com/meet-sasha-matthews-teen-artist-who-has-raised-almost-10-000-for-the-aclu-a21444d3f4f

Homepage. http://rumblecomics.com/

 

Society

Social Impact Bonds vs. Endemic Poverty

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Denver program finds homeless people with jail time - and then houses them - Denverite
Denver program finds homeless people with jail time – and then houses them – Denverite
They are subjects in an $8.7 million experiment — the Denver Social Impact Bond Program – that may be the first of its scale in the United States.
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Cities experiment to reduce homelessness with
Cities experiment to reduce homelessness with
WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The past couple of years have been a roller-coaster for Maurice Cushinberry – first of homelessness, substance abuse and legal trouble, and then of sudden stability.
www.reuters.com

 

Culture

One World United By… Korean POP!

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Love of Korean pop links UK teenagers with Palestinian refugees
Love of Korean pop links UK teenagers with Palestinian refugees
The sugary pop songs of South Korean groups BTS, EXO and BlackPink might be sung in Korean but it has not stopped Palestinian refugee teenager Tasnim from be…
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Love of Korean pop links UK teenagers with Palestinian refugees
Love of Korean pop links UK teenagers with Palestinian refugees
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The sugary pop songs of South Korean groups BTS, EXO and BlackPink might be sung in Korean but it has not stopped Palestinian refugee teenager Tasnim from being an avid fan from her home in war-torn Syria.
www.reuters.com

 

Culture Environment Health

Julian Melchiorri’s Exhale Bionic Chandelier

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The Exhale Bionic Chandelier: Microorganism-filled 'leaves' that 'breathe'
The Exhale Bionic Chandelier: Microorganism-filled ‘leaves’ that ‘breathe’
An air purifier, an art object, and a piece of lighting design all in one living, ‘breathing’ chandelier. This is London-based inventor and bioengineer Julian Melchiorri’s Exhale Bionic Chandelier, a microorganism-filled light made from 70 ‘leaves’ that take carbon dioxide out of the air and turn it
thekidshouldseethis.com

 

Society

Insert Your Homeless Certification Here

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NYC's Homeless Men And Women Soon To Have Access To Free Vending Machines
NYC’s Homeless Men And Women Soon To Have Access To Free Vending Machines
People who are homeless in New York City will be the first in the country to have access to free vending machines, dispensing items like food, socks, shampoo, books and more.
The project started in January in Nottingham, England, as the brainchild of Huzaifah Khaled, founder of the British charity Action Hunger (@_actionhunger).
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Culture Health Society Technology Wow Cool

PADMAN: the Singing, Dancing Bollywood Film About Menstrual Hygiene

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Is this a new trend of socially conscious blockbusters in India? (Or is it just Askhay Kumar’s new deal?)

Following Toilet Ek Prem Katha, comes ‘Padman‘, tackling menstruation taboos.
https://www.afp.com/en/news/828/bollywoods-menstrual-man-movie-targets-indian-taboo-doc-yk63a1

It’s based on the story of Arunachalam Muruganantham, a Tamil Nadu-based social activist who helped to dramatically raise awareness on menstrual hygiene in rural India by producing low-cost sanitary napkins using small machines and locally sourced products. (Largely from the short story from Twinkle Khanna’s book “The Sanitary Man of Sacred Land.”

So far reviews are looking good! Here’s Time, Hindustan Times, Indian Express, and Times Now,  which praises the music.

What, you don’t think a musical about menstruation is marketable? Bollywood’s bigger than Hollywood, and the film is having synchronized world-wide openings.

Society Wow Cool

Integrity Idol: Looking For The Most Honest Public Servants

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Nigeria Integrity Idol: Reality TV show celebrates most honest public officials
Nigeria Integrity Idol: Reality TV show celebrates most honest public officials
The reality TV show searches for the most honest and outstanding public officials in Nigeria.
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‘Integrity Idol’ celebrates honest civil servants in West Africa
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A reality TV show that celebrates honest civil servants in corruption-plagued countries has grown to reach new audiences in Mali and Liberia and aims to enlist the public’s help in fighting graft, the organizers said.
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Here's the winner of Integrity Idol, the reality show for Nigerian government workers
Here’s the winner of Integrity Idol, the reality show for Nigerian government workers
Nuzo Eziechi said, “I am incredibly excited to be honored as Nigeria?s Integrity Idol.” The show featured government workers competing to be crowned most ethical.
boingboing.net

(Can we haz 4 USA plz)

Environment Science

Biodegradable Six-Pack Rings

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A brewery is making the ocean safer with this new edible packaging
A brewery is making the ocean safer with this new edible packaging
A Florida brewery is helping lessen marine pollution by creating six-pack rings out of barley and wheat so that sea life can eat them.
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A brewery invented 'edible six-pack rings' to save ocean animals
A brewery invented ‘edible six-pack rings’ to save ocean animals
Saltwater Brewery in Florida has invented six-pack rings that ocean animals can actually eat.
www.businessinsider.com