Peek co-founder and CEO Andrew Bastawrous proposes an ambitious new mechanism for Commonwealth governments to meet the vision needs of all citizens.
Read MoreMeet the Nigerian designer weaving African textiles with Renaissance art—including some of Black Panther’s amazing looks /
A chat with Walé Oyéjidé, the man behind Ikiré Jones, a Philadelphia-based fashion line with a truly global aesthetic.
Read MoreInside the online platform that’s empowering survivors of campus sexual assaults … and catching repeat offenders /
Outraged at the incidence of sex crimes at colleges, activist Jess Ladd got mad — and then she got to building. Here’s how she developed a secure and sensitive reporting system that’s in use on 13 campuses.
Read MoreThe first-ever 4 minutes of magical hand-drawn animation to emerge from Pakistan /
Musician, composer and filmmaker Usman Riaz abandoned his music career to start Pakistan’s first animation studio from scratch. Here’s a peek at the work in progress.
Read MoreIn 21st-century Korea, shamanism is not only thriving — but evolving /
Artist Jorge Mañes Rubio travels to Seoul, Korea, to learn about the city’s primarily female shamans and their vital role in contemporary urban life.
Read MoreWhat went wrong with the breakthrough dengue vaccine? /
How a perfect storm of politics, panic and public health misinformation may have once again derailed a vaccine that can save lives.
Read MoreIn rural Tanzania, a surprising collision of cultures and craft /
A impromptu collaboration between an Uruguayan documentary photographer, a Nigerian fashion designer, an American cellist and three Maasai herdsmen in rural Tanzania sparks an unexpected artwork fueled by music, fashion, photography and poetry.
Read MoreA crowdfunding platform aims to solve the puzzle of aging /
Aging happens to all of us, but scientists still don’t know the mechanism behind it. We need to focus on finding an answer, says molecular biologist Oliver Medvedik.
Read MoreAn unsettling peek into the reality of life in 2050 /
Rather than just imagine the future, what if we could walk around in it? In a new installation, designer Anab Jain invites visitors to enter an apartment in the middle of the 21st century.
Read MoreA scientist explores the mysteries of the gut-brain connection /
The brain in your head and the one in your gut are always exchanging info. But how do they do it? Neuroscientist Diego Bohórquez is trying to find out the answers.
Read MoreRevolution: What is it good for? /
On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, artist Uldus Bakhtiozina offers a surrealistic rebuke of the consequences of revolution.
Read MoreSingularity is near — and it’s in the form of a dachshund named Elly /
Restless tech innovator Yale Fox gave voice to his dog Elly by mounting Amazon Alexa software to a Raspberry Pi and hooking it up to a mic and speakers. Now Elly can talk to people she meets on the streets, picking up keywords that prompt responses.
Read MoreYou think you know the story of European migration — but not like this /
Launching today, Alison Killing’s immersive online documentary project migration trail lets you follow along in real time as two fictional characters make perilous 10-day journeys to Europe.
In late 2015, the shocking photograph of a toddler washed up on a beach in Turkey galvanized public attention on large numbers of migrants traveling to Europe, many by sea and under extremely risky conditions. Because of the surge in numbers of irregular travelers that year — more than 1 million — and the thousands of lives lost, media headlines at the time emblazoned the situation as a “crisis” in mainstream consciousness.
A harrowing look at the “war on drugs” in the Philippines /
Philippine police forces have killed thousands in a brutal crackdown on suspected drug dealers and users — a campaign that President Trump has praised. On the eve of Trump’s visit to the country, documentarian Ed Ou tells us what life is like on the ground.
Read MoreBuzzing, moving, multi-tentacled sculptures made of the stuff of our lives /
Artist Shih Chieh Huang teases out the personality from everyday objects by fusing them together into colorful, clamorous creations.
Read MoreHow does a city ravaged by war heal and recover? /
Lebanese artist Zena el Khalil has transformed a historic Beirut building once commandeered for violence into a sanctuary for art, bearing witness, healing and forgiveness.
Read MoreIn East African cassava fields, a new genomics tool is saving crops and lives /
The latest in the fight against whitefly-borne virus that threatens a world staple food: new portable DNA sequencing technology that lets farmers in East Africa identify the disease, and helps scientists develop a solution.
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