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Moliere Dimanche would use anything he could scrounge up – pieces of folders, the back of commissary forms, old letters – as canvases. Moliere Dimanche

Through his art, a former prisoner diagnoses the systemic sickness of Florida’s penitentiaries

From solitary confinement, Moliere Dimanche started drawing on anything he could find. The result was a series of fantastical, allegorical images that depict abuse, racism and profound isolation.
Robert F. Kennedy accepts the Democratic nomination as a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1964. (AP Photo/John Lent

Robert Kennedy, improbable liberal hero

Robert F. Kennedy, assassinated 50 years ago, began his career as a conservative anti-communist. At the end of his life, he was transformed into a liberal who championed civil and workers’ rights.
The female longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis, crawling on a leaf. Jim Occi, Rutgers Center for Vector Biology

Self-cloning Asian tick causing worry in New Jersey

There is a new type of tick spreading in New Jersey, and it doesn’t need a male to reproduce. It’s known to spread disease and is proving difficult to eradicate.
Pengungsi Rohingya di Bangladesh menunggu bantuan kemanusiaan. Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters

Sejarah persekusi Rohingya di Myanmar

Persekusi Rohingya dimulai pada 1948, tahun Myanmar merdeka dari penjajahan Inggris.
The U.S. failing to meet its Paris commitment would cause about $100 billion of damage to the global economy. Cammie Czuchnicki/shutterstcok.com

How bad could Trump’s Paris Agreement withdrawal be? A scientist’s perspective

A climate scientist and policy scholar sees three possible scenarios following Trump’s plan to pull out of the Paris Agreement – ranging from a small uptick in emissions to a global recession.
What if you could unlock your smartphone this way? Janne Lindqvist

Could a doodle replace your password?

A simple idea that’s surprisingly secure: drawing your own unlock pattern on a touchscreen. Faster and easier to remember than a password, and much harder to guess or crack.
Climate fiction: A novel describes New Yorkers keeping on even after 50 feet of sea-level rise next century. www.shutterstock.com

New York 2140: A novelist’s vision of a drowned city that still never sleeps

A researcher on sea level rise and climate change impacts reviews Kim Stanley Robinson’s new novel, ‘New York 2140,’ which envisions the city’s future in the face of extreme sea-level rise.
We can give thanks to the strong winds of trans-Atlantic trade for ‘Tom Turkey.’ Reuters/Shannon Stapleton

Why we have globalization to thank for Thanksgiving

A globalization expert shares two surprising tales of how the powerful winds of trans-Atlantic trade affected the quintessentially American holiday.
Hurricane Sandy, a storm with huge economic costs, bears down on New York in 2012. Jeffrey Furticella/AP Images

Managing climate risk in Trump’s America

Climate change isn’t just an environmental problem. It is one of the fundamental economic challenges of this century.

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