From how we grow our food, to how we look after older people, the crowdfunding community is reimagining the world we want to live in – and raising the money to make it happen. Having ripped up the fundraising rulebook, the UK’s biggest crowdfunding platform has now set its sights on making public money and grant funds become more effective too
The National Poetry Library is collecting poems written in endangered languages to help preserve them for future generations
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A book featuring portraits of women from around the world aims to challenge the narrow concept of beauty depicted by the mass media, and celebrate diversity
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For its efforts to save ancient historical artifacts and put them on display for educational purposes, the company has been declared guilty of trafficking war loot. And the property it bought? It is presumably going to be owned now by the US government – and maybe put in a warehouse and forgotten, like the disgraceful scene from the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
An increasing number of digital and creative companies are setting up as co-operatives, boosting the UK co-ops scene
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Terrorists are often sold on the idea that they could be heroes, so Suleiman Bakhit came up with a creative way to fight this myth. The Jordanian social entrepreneur and comic book author has created a set of stories for young Arab Muslims that offer an alternative narrative to extremist ideologies.
The system of transferring fine art suffers from great opacity that makes it difficult to track original works. Transaction records are usually paper-based, which exposes them to a plethora of risks – they can be easily lost, destroyed, altered, or stolen. Luckily, Blockchain is particularly fit to solve these issues.
Sherry Japhet breaks the law each time she applies makeup to an Idaho client. That’s why Japhet found true irony in being asked to provide makeup services to Idaho's First Lady, whose husband recently vetoed a bill that would have made it legal for Japhet to do his wife's makeup.
As migration sits at the centre of current debates concerning Britain’s identity and place in the world, the UK’s first dedicated museum about migration opens its doors
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