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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.
Unchecked greenhouse gas emissions would lead to a number of economic effects, including potentially more damaging storms like Hurricane Sandy. Eric Thayer/Reuters

Trump’s energy plan poses climate threat to U.S. economy

Making expanded fossil fuel production the core of U.S. energy policy, as proposed by Donald Trump, and backing out of climate agreements would cost the U.S. economy billions and transform the planet.

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