Elisabeth Murdoch creates a new prize to encourage female artists Philanthropist Elisabeth Murdoch aims to boost mid-career women artists with a big new cash prize. The Tate trustee, philanthropist, and daughter of media mogul Rupert Murdoch have created the Freelands Artist Award, an annual £100,000 (approximately $150,000) prize. The award will also provide its winner…
Montreal is a city of artists, and unlike most places, we don’t like to keep our art exclusively in museums. Instead, we take it to the streets and plaster it all over the city. The best part of Montreal street art is that it is constantly evolving. Every year, MuralFest adds a few more pieces…
German soccer team combats racism by turning everyone black in team photo A soccer team in Germany turned all its players into black on the official photo of the club and posted it on its own Facebook account. Leinster SV had good intentions; the gesture was meant to show support for two of their players,…
A teacher gives life skills classes to disadvantaged young people. A teacher in Charleston, South Carolina is teaching some little men, some big life lessons. Every Wednesday nearly 60 elementary school students dress in their Sunday’s best for the Gentleman’s Club. Raymond Nelson works with at-risk children at Memminger Elementary and thought of the idea over…
A girl wants to help kids discover books they can relate you Eleven-year-old Marley Dias told her mom she was “sick of reading books about white boys and dogs.” The sixth-grader from New Jersey loves to read, but she has a hard time relating to the characters in the required books she reads in school…
A former drug addict to become a street librarian Meet Philani Dladla, a.k.a. the Pavement Bookworm. He’s 24 and lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, and his story is quite incredible. As a child growing up in KwaZulu Natal he had always loved books. But after moving to Johannesburg to find work, he started taking drugs.…
Doctors 3D-print ‘living’ body parts Custom-made, living body parts have been 3D-printed in a significant advance for regenerative medicine, say scientists. The sections of bone, muscle and cartilage all functioned normally when implanted into animals. The breakthrough, published in Nature Biotechnology, raises the hope of using living tissues to repair the body. Experts described the…
Austrian city of Linz to get its gay traffic lights back The Austrian city of Linz will be getting its gay-themed traffic lights back again after they were removed due to opposition from a far-right political party. The traffic lights, which showed same sex couples holding hands or with arms around each other instead of…
‘Pride Tape’ helps LGBTQ hockey players feel welcome It shouldn’t require a herculean effort to make LGBTQ athletes feel welcome in their choice of sport, but one Edmonton-based campaign is aiming to do just that — starting with a few pieces of colourful hockey tape. “We believe that these six colours can change the hockey…
The power of thank you: University of Georgia research links gratitude to successful marriages: A key ingredient to improving couples’ marriages might just be gratitude, according to new University of Georgia research. The study was recently published in the journal Personal Relationships. “We found that feeling appreciated and believing that your spouse values you directly…