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Actor Kal Penn Raises $160K In A Few Hours For Syrian Refugees After Being Told 'He Doesn't Belong To America'

Actor Kal Penn has turned a nasty comment about his origins into an inspiring cause as he raised more than $160,000 in a few hours for Syrian refugees. The Harold and Kumar...

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Human Rights

Delhi Molestation: India Not Ready For Sex Offenders Registry, Says Child Rights Lawyer

Independent advocate Anant Asthana specialises in child rights and has over the years represented juveniles in a large number of cases. He works closely with the Juvenile J...

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Environment

These Are The Best Satellite Images Of Earth's Weather Taken So Far

Get ready to revel in some next-level planetary beauty, because on Monday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released the first images taken by its...

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Human Rights

What Muslim Registry Will Look Like: #DontNormalizeHate

As we head toward Inauguration Day with a president-elect who refuses to back down on plans to create a registry of Muslim Americans, the threat of history repeating itself...

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Alternative Entertainment

Bill Gates Lists His Favourite Books Of 2016

Bill Gates has apparently been a big reader all along, even during his Microsoft days. On his site, Gates Notes, he writes, “I’ve been reading about a book a we...

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Gaurdian US Receives Major Grant To Create Change Within The Homeless Crisis

Guardian US today announced funding of $550,000 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to produce a year-long series of sustained and deep reporting on the growing ho...

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Festivals

Immersive Film Festival Will Celebrate The Legacy Of John Hughes

You may not be able to find Shermer, Illinois, on a map, but the town where director John Hughes set some of his most beloved films will be a real place for at least four d...

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Gender

27 Nonfiction Books By Women Everyone Should Read This Year

New year, new books. At least, that’s what we wrote back in December, when we were just starting to add titles to our 2017 reading lists. Now that we’re nine da...

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Alternative Entertainment

When A Book Club Lends More Than Just Books

This story is part of an ongoing campaign called the Alphabet of Illiteracy. By using letters themselves—the foundation of reading and writing—Project Literacy ...

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Health

Can Wearable Sensors Tell When You're Sick?

It may one day be possible to spot illness the same way many of us already track our exercise habits and sleep patterns: with wearable sensors, researchers say. In a new st...

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