By Karissa Rosenfield
Sila Sahin is current poster child of naked dissent Germany’s ongoing struggle with integration, usually carried out with grim zeal and intellectual debates, experienced a surprisingly sensual turn last week. The appearance of Turkish-German actress Sila Sahin’s attractive, naked body in the May issue of Playboy magazine shows how young women with immigrant backgrounds can…
by Abigail Pesta ….August, 2012 Model and photographer Indrani spent her childhood in a 300-room palace in India. She turned that ancestral home into a school—and is fighting to give girls a better future. By Abigail Pesta. Indrani visits students at her ancestral palace turned school in India. She grew up in a crumbling ancestral…
Ritchie Katko spends his days working for the Make it Right Foundation in the Lower 9th ward in New Orleans. This January, while the city was consumed by Saints fever, Ritchie, along with a group of fellow architects and thought leaders traveled to Haiti to offer their assistance. A few weeks ago, they made a…
Michelangelo’s famous marble statue, David, is displayed at the Florence’s Accademia Gallery
New research reveals that we’re more focused and creative in the great outdoors By Kevin Charles Redmon, Have you been staring cow-eyed at a computer all morning? Fiddling with your iPhone in line at Starbucks? Checking Twitter and ESPN every four minutes on your tablet? Good. Here’s a little quiz. What one word…
Understanding the Occupy Wall Street movement: A primer Occupy Wall Street, the amorphous series of demonstrations that are reshaping the political debate in many major American cities and in countries around the globe, entered its second month on Monday. Here is a primer to understanding the movement that has mobilized hundreds of thousands of people…