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An untitled piece by Martin Ramírez, (Train and Tunnel). Ramírez used crayons and glued together pieces of paper to make his drawings.

An anonymous psych patient is now acclaimed as a master artist of the immigrant experience

Arts

For years, Mexican artist Martín Ramírez was only known as a psychiatric patient who made drawings. That narrative is changing.

Students at Valencia Community College

This Florida community college was named the best in the nation in 2011. So, what makes it so successful?

Education
Tania Bruguera

Cuban artist describes regime’s still-watchful eye

Arts
Dick DeBartolo

After 45 years, Mad Magazine’s Dick DeBartolo still delights in creating comic lunacy

Culture
Januka Rasaeli, a pregnant woman in Nepal

In Nepal, the manual labor doesn’t stop for expectant mothers

Health & Medicine
An elephant herd by Kabini River in Southern India.

In India, a reporter misses the elephants of her childhood

Environment

The World’s Rhitu Chatterjee grew up in a small Indian city where she would regularly see elephants ambling down the street. Now that she’s returned to India after 11 years in the United States, she’s noticing that part of Indian culture is fading away.

A hostess waits for participants at the Stiletto Run in Constanta, 155 miles east of Bucharest

In one Colombian town, women say no sex until their demands are met

Development & Education

Women in a small town in southwestern Colombia have stopped having sex with their significant others to protest the terrible condition of a road that connects their town to the rest of Colombia. The campaign, dubbed the “crossed legs movement,” seems to be working.

Is studying abroad a waste of time or a key ingredient for baking a global citizen?

Development & Education

Study abroad programs have ballooned in the last few decades, with colleges and universities offering it as a defining experience for emerging global citizens. But is it mainly play time for the well-off and overrated as a mind-broadening rite of passage?

Rescue Annie

Here’s the story behind the ‘most kissed face’ in the world

Lifestyle & Belief

The CPR training mannequin Rescue Annie has been kissed millions of times around the world. But the face isn’t merely some computer animation — it’s believed to be based on the face of a woman pulled out of Paris’ Seine River back in the 1880s. While that’s the official story, and believed to be true, dozens (or more) other versions have also popped up.