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05.20.13 - 2:06 PM

Seeking to humanize, empower and transform, French street artist JR has taken his "Inside Out" project to over 100 countries, mostly poor and troubled, to claim public spaces with 140,000 giant portraits of those who live there. An HBO documentary tonight explores the power of images in what has been dubbed the world's largest participatory art project.

-Abby Zimet
05.20.13 - 12:54 PM

An 18-year-old Florida high school student has been expelled and charged with two felony counts of “lewd and lascivious battery" because she fell in love and had a consensual relationship with a 15-year-old classmate who happens to be a girl. Citing the other girl's parents - who "see being gay as a sin" and chose to prosecute rather than, umm, talk - Kaitlyn Hunt's family has wisely gone public with a Change.org petition to stop the lunacy.

-Abby Zimet
05.19.13 - 10:06 PM

If you need another reason for fear and loathing of Keystone, there's this: Towering over the Detroit River is a three-story, block-long pile of petroleum coke, the toxic, high-carbon, ever-increasing - Canada has 79.8 million tons stockpiled - waste byproduct of refining tar sands oil. The owners of the pile are the Koch brothers, who every year deliver millions of tons of coke, too dirty to be burned in the U.S., to countries like China and Mexico with looser environmental laws. The Koch brothers, it seems, didn't even get permits from state or city officials. If Keystone goes ahead, look for a toxic mountain near you.

-Abby Zimet
05.17.13 - 8:19 PM

Watch the stampede of NYPD at a 135th Street subway station when Clive Utter, 31, allegedly jumped the turnstile, after which he was slammed into the wall, dropped onto the floor and cuffed by at least 25 officers - and a bystander filming the mayhem was forced to stop. Your tax dollars at work.

-Abby Zimet
05.17.13 - 12:08 PM

As debate rages about sexual assault in the military, an officer in charge of sexual assault prevention has for the third time in two weeks been arrested for doing the things he's supposed to be preventing. Lt. Col. Darin Haas was charged with stalking and sending his wife threatening texts in violation of a court order. Haas was head of the sexual harassment and assault response program at Fort Campbell, Ky. Getting surreal.

-Abby Zimet
05.16.13 - 9:30 PM

The most ambitious survey on the causes of climate change - covering 11,994 peer-reviewed papers by 29,000 scientists over 20 years - has found that 97.1% agree climate change is caused by human activity, with dissenters representing a "vanishingly small proportion." Yet industry lobbying has created a "gaping chasm" between scientific consensus and public perception, with just 42% of Americans seeing the connection.

"The public have been confused because people have been trying to confuse us."

-Abby Zimet
05.16.13 - 12:04 PM

A gender-swapping prank from the gaming industry shows speaking up can make a difference. Meet Brosie the Riveter.

-Abby Zimet

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