Getting more women on the pitch
/Football projects around London are working to get more girls into the sport. They’re finding that a good place to start is with the coaches.
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Growing food in winter isn’t easy in variable climates, but one company in South London is providing local restaurants and grocers with fresh produce with the help of hydroponics... Read more.
Read MoreWhat time's kick off?
/Attendance at non-league football games is on the rise in the UK, as some fans choose to support smaller league teams with their hearts and wallets.
Read MoreGame of Thrones characters to feature on new stamps
/“Popular fantasy series Game of Thrones is to be celebrated via a new set of stamps...” Read more.
Read MoreNext generation gets hooked on seafood sustainability
/Students around the UK are getting an education in sustainability from Billingsgate Seafood School during this year's Seafood Week.
Read MoreLondon Jewish cemetery wins international acclaim
/A Jewish cemetery in North London holds its head high this week after winning an international architecture award.
Read MoreCyber crime hits London galleries
/Art galleries in London and the U.S. are scrambling to safeguard their art sales after a slew of cyber crime over the past year.
Read MorePrison workouts: the newest fitness craze
/This is not your average fitness class. It was developed in the prison yard.
Read MoreFilm Review: Battle of Soho
/“The Battle of Soho is not your ordinary tale of gentrification. From the beginning, this new documentary takes the viewer by the hand, as if showing a friend around the neighbourhood, sparing no Soho flare or glitter along the way...” Read more.
Read MoreHelping students find their place through Project SEARCH
/“When we think of a classroom, or even a school, we often have a pretty clear image in mind. However, when you actually spend time in Alaska’s diverse and varied public schools, that picture will undoubtedly change. In fact, some programs don’t even take place in classrooms or schools at all. One such program in Anchorage, Project SEARCH, takes a different approach to make sure its students are set up for success after graduation...” Read more.
Read MoreFighting with Fire: James Nachtwey's Inferno and contemporary war photography
/A large black and white photograph shows the right side of a man’s face, our attention drawn to deep scars across his skin - scars hitting cartilage, maybe bone, taking off part of his ear, slicing into his mouth. The man grasps his neck as if to reveal his scars. Even though his wounds have now healed, they will never retreat completely.
Read MoreOccupy Mac Brings Faces Of Foreclosure To Campus
/“If the national movement Occupy Wall Street has been criticized for one thing, it is a lack of concrete, unifying goals. However, Occupy Mac, Macalester’s chapter in the movement that started in October, demonstrated Tuesday at its Faces of Foreclosure event that they have no shortage of goals for Macalester, Minnesota or the country...” Read more.
Read MoreA Subculture in a Violent World: War Correspondents and Conflict Journalism
/"I had become known as a conflict photographer. I could ask for assignments to almost any place, as long as people were killing each other," says South African photographer, Greg Marinovich in his autobiographical book The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War. After covering violence in South Africa during the early 1990s and winning a Pulitzer Prize for his work, Marinovich was beginning to learn about the benefits and costs of being a photojournalist covering violence. Conflict journalism is a profession that offers a lot to aspiring journalists, while asking a lot of them in return.
Read MoreSave Some Green
/“Students living off-campus may wish to buy organic everything and put LED bulbs in every lighting fixture in their house, but as college students, few people have the disposable incomes to do so. However, that does not mean that living in an environmentally conscious and inexpensive way is impossible. It just takes a little extra planning...” Read more.
Read MoreConcert Review: Tennis
/“This is the story of Tennis: boy meets girl while studying philosophy at college in Denver and falls in love. They get married and take a seven month sailing trip down the Eastern Atlantic Seaboard...” Read more.
Read MoreConcert Review: Turquoise Jeep
/“Flynt Flossy, Pretty Raheem, Watchyamacallit, and Yung Humma took to the stage Thursday, February 9th at the Triple Rock Social Club above a crowd of young Twin Cities fans decked out in turquoise and in love with their group, Turquoise Jeep...” Read more.
Read MorePlease, speak slowly
/Parli més a poc a poc, sisplau, which is Catalan for “Please, speak slowly,” was a study abroad/travel blog I wrote while in Barcelona.
Read MoreA Now Broken Silence: Where Female Correspondents Go From Here
/On April 28, 2011 CBS Chief Foreign Correspondent South African reporter Lara Logan went on 60 Minutes and told the story of how she had been raped by a mob during Egyptian celebrations in Cairo's Tahrir Square on February 11 of that same year.
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