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Mamadi Doumbouya, a New York-based photographer from Guinea, is hailed as one of the most influential and innovative photographers of our time. He creatively uses colors, symbols, and motifs inspired by his roots and the cultures he encounters. Let’s explore the story of Doumbouya, from his humble b
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2024.04.01 15:02
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Have you heard of the Planetary Boundaries Framework? In September 2023, Johan Rockstrom made a statement in a scientific journal that the state of the Earth is akin to a hypertensive patient at high risk of a heart attack, increasing the attention of the public to the crisis of the Earth. Let’s exp
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2024.03.01 13:24
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Helene D. Gayle, a public health expert and business executive in the United States, has made significant contributions to international public health and welfare through her passion for public health research and outstanding leadership for community welfare. How was she able to succeed in both fiel
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2023.11.30 17:30
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“I think a building that relates to elements such as light, openings, and color of materiality, gives more to a little child than a room where you can teach the alphabet.” Diébédo Francis Kéré, an architect from Burkina Faso, Africa, designs and constructs buildings that are inherently sustainable a
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2023.11.02 10:20
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Do you remember the pro-democracy protests in Iran that blossomed alongside the World Cup in Qatar last September? "Democracy ... is not something that occurs overnight. It is not a gift delivered on a golden tray. Democracy is a long process of fighting,challenging accepted ideas, and perpetually s
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2023.10.01 21:45
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“Make Change Happen!"- This is the motto that David Yeung, the visionary founder of the social venture Green Monday, adopted when he first launched his vegetarian campaign. He strove to change society for the better through his belief in ‘vegetarianism.’ His goal as an entrepreneur was to popularize
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2023.08.31 20:12
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Chat GPT is taking center stage these days. Chat GPT, which was launched in November 2022, has created a blizzard on the internet with its overwhelming performance. Sam Altman, the CAH person of the month, is the CEO of OpenAI, the company that made the now-inevitable chatbot ChatGPT. Let’s get to k
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2023.05.30 23:39
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On June 30th, 2022, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in to the Supreme Court as the 116th Supreme Court justice and the first black woman to serve on the high court. The nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court serve lifetime appointments on the Court, in accordance with Article II of the Unite
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2023.04.29 02:31
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Dmitry Muratov who was awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize decided to sell his Nobel Peace Prize medal at auction. The medal was sold for $103.5 million (134.1 billion won), and Dmitry donated the entire amount to a charity for Ukrainian refugees. Even at this moment, many people are suffering from t
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2023.03.31 00:05
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Brazil's new President, Lula da Silva, who began his third presidential term on January 1st, promised during his campaign to become an 'environmental president'. He thus appointed qualified candidates to the presidential cabinet who could deal with environmental tasks such as restoring devastated Am
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2023.03.01 22:35
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Roughly five years ago, a brave woman sparked the #MeToo in Japan. Having many advocates and supports, Shiori Ito bravely brought a sexual harassment incident to the surface and gave hope to women, despite undergoing painful damage. Let’s take a look at the story of Shiori Ito, who finally regained
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2022.12.02 20:30
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Income inequality and racism still exist in many countries as major social problems. Racism, especially, has been passed down through many generations in the United States. While some people believe racism is one of the driving factors of income inequality, the wealth gap between the white and the b
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2022.11.10 01:29
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GOAT, or “Greatest of All Time”, is the nickname given to gymnast Simon Biles. Winning six Olympic medals and 25 World Championship medals, Simon Biles was highly anticipated to receive medals in the 2020 Summer Olympic games. However, Biles suddenly withdrew, reminding the world of the importance o
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2022.10.08 00:03
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In March 2022, after overthrowing the country’s democratically elected government, Myanmar’s military junta stripped the citizenship of 16 prominent opposition figures, including senior executes of the National Unity Government (NUG). The government also revoked the citizenship of Ei Thinzar Maung f
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2022.09.03 17:38
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There were two winners of the Nobel Peace Prize in November 2021. A Filipino and a Russian, both of whom were journalists, reported the truth without yielding to great pressure. Originally, the Nobel Peace Prize was regarded to be awarded to activists or politicians. It is the first time in 86 years
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2022.06.07 00:03
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Among Korean nursery rhymes, there is a song with the lyrics “I really wish I could appear on television.” How would it feel to appear on a TV program that you have been a fan of since childhood? One such person is Bowen Yang, whom we will examine. He appeared in three consecutive seasons as the fir
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2022.05.07 17:11
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On July 27th, 2021, while the enthusiasm for the Tokyo Olympics was at its peak, Simon Biles, the leading athlete in American women’s gymnastics, announced her withdrawal from the team competition. Recognized as the best athlete in history in women’s gymnastics, her withdrawal shocked the world whil
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2022.04.04 14:22
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A self-made businessman who started without a penny to his name. It seems like it will only appear in movies, but there is a person who can actually be fit this statement. His name is Brian Tracy. He is the CEO of 'Brian Tracy International', a human resources development company with annual sales o
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2022.03.06 15:34
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On October 18th, 2021, a woman called out to the Taliban regime that occupied Afghanistan to allow girls to go to school. This woman was Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist from Pakistan. The movement to promote the right to education for young girls, wh
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2021.12.07 12:03
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On April 10th, 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)[1] released the world's first image of a black hole. Located at the center of the giant galaxy M87, the black hole is 55 million light-years from Earth and has a mass 6.5 billion times greater than that of our Sun. On April 11th, The Guardian se
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2021.11.12 12:02