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Paul Nicklen’s new images carry a dire warning about climate change
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Paul Nicklen’s new images carry a dire warning about climate change

This post first appeared at BillMoyers.com. In the summer of 2014, one of the world’s top nature photographers was on an expedition in the f...

Apr 22, 2017
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Where in the world has Humanae been?
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Where in the world has Humanae been?

Photographer Angélica Dass captures some of humanity’s truest colors through her portrait project Humanae, a catalogue of human skin color d...

Feb 23, 2017
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Giant Olympic athletes take flight over Rio in JR’s latest work
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Giant Olympic athletes take flight over Rio in JR’s latest work

A Sudanese high jumper towers over Rio de Janeiro, arching over a 25-story building in the Flamengo district. A triathlete plows through the...

Aug 10, 2016
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I’m walking: JR’s stunning image hits the cover of the New York Times Magazine
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I’m walking: JR’s stunning image hits the cover of the New York Times Magazine

The image itself looks laid back enough — a 20-year-old man in a hoodie and jeans, walking through New York City. Except that this image is ...

Apr 23, 2015
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Street artists from around the world — brought together virtually by TEDx and the Google Cultural Institute
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Street artists from around the world — brought together virtually by TEDx and the Google Cultural Institute

Alexandre Farto spends his days creating towering works on the buildings of Lisbon and London — portraits of people that mirror urban decay,...

Apr 10, 2015
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{A satirical TED Talk, inspired by Dostoevsky and given by a 10-year-old}
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{A satirical TED Talk, inspired by Dostoevsky and given by a 10-year-old}

On the surface, the talk is “TED-like”: the round red carpet, the well-rehearsed speaker, the shadowy audience, the headset mic....

Feb 26, 2015
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Stéphane Charbonnier eyes, courtesy of TED Prize winner JR
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Stéphane Charbonnier eyes, courtesy of TED Prize winner JR

More than a million people took to the streets of Paris yesterday to show solidarity against extremism and terrorism. And their eyes were on...

Jan 12, 2015
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Data becomes art in Julie Freeman’s “We Need Us”
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Data becomes art in Julie Freeman’s “We Need Us”

. Artist Julie Freeman creates kinetic sculptures, compositions and animations from nature-generated data. Think: the motion of fish swimmin...

Oct 7, 2014
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Data researcher Jean-Baptiste Michel made his first piece of art … and the Whitney Museum acquired it
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Data researcher Jean-Baptiste Michel made his first piece of art … and the Whitney Museum acquired it

Jean-Baptiste Michel has sold a small sculpture to the Whitney Museum of American Art. A major museum acquiring a piece—that’s a big moment ...

Apr 17, 2014
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