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Combining Skills and Ethics Crucial to Digital Education

As more and more aspects of daily living move online, children will need to learn the tools required to successfully transition into modern adulthood. To help, schools are currently implementing programs to teach digital literacy. Today’s students are exposed to technology far more than any preceding generation. The 2011 Common…

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J.P. Connolly

Exploring the Science of Sleep with Max Richter

You might want to pack your best onesie for this year’s SXSW festival. If, that is, you are planning on attending the performance of Max Richter’s Sleep, which has its U.S. premiere at this year’s event. That’s because a onesie, pajamas, or something similarly sleepily comfortable is acceptable, if not…

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Max Richter. Photo by Rhys Frampton, Courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon

Stockton Mayor Riding Bold Wave of Change

Michael Tubbs had one goal when he left Stockton, California, after finishing high school in 2008 to go to Stanford University: Get out, and stay out. He excelled at Stanford, receiving a Truman Scholarship, serving as the president of the university’s NAACP chapter, and working as an intern in the…

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Mayor Michael Tubbs

Tracing Barry Jenkins’ Path From Medicine to Moonlight

It has been a year since Barry Jenkins won the Best Picture Academy Award for Moonlight, and if you’ve tracked his movements, he has barely been home. He’s obsessed with air travel—and not just getting from point A to point B, like his triumphant return trip to Austin in March…

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Berry Jenkins at the SXSW 2008 premiere of Medicine for Melancholy

Yes He Khan! London’s First Muslim Mayor Looks to the Future

London, May 2016. The spirit of change is in the air as the British capital has become the first major western city to elect a Muslim mayor. Labour MP (Member of Parliament) Sadiq Khan has defeated his ring-wing opponent, the wealthy Zac Goldsmith, winning the biggest personal mandate in British…

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Sadiq Khan. Photo by Caroline Teo

Logic’s Recent Hit Carries Real Social Impact

Logic may have already been a star in the hip-hop world when his third studio album, Everybody, debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart this past May. But for reasons beyond music, the 27-year-old rapper reached new fame and acclaim after his performance of the hit song,…

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Logic. Photo by Alex J. Etling

Empowering the World’s Women with Melinda Gates

As the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Melinda Gates has a reputation as a world-renowned philanthropist. Through the foundation, which she and her husband, Microsoft co-founder Bill, established in 2000, Gates has provided educational scholarships, launched health programs and pushed initiatives for agricultural development around the world.…

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Melinda Gates. Photo by Chip Somodevilla

In Japan, TV Viewers Keep Eyes on North Korea

As a journalist for Fuji TV in Japan, Nobuyuki Nose is used to being the one with all the facts. Over the course of his career, he has become a specialist in national security. In recent years, that has become an especially critical news beat in Japan, which due to…

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Nobuyuki Nose. Photo courtesy of AOI Pro
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