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Italian vegetarians and vegans face fines and imprisonment if they attempt to foist their meat and dairy-dodging habits to their offspring, should an Italian politician get her way.…
In the years since the September 11 attacks, the U.S. government has spent billions in the name of fighting terrorism. However, America has largely ignored one critical threat: dirty bombs. According to Steven Brill, the author of The Atlantic's September 2016 cover story “Are We Any Safer?”, a dirty bomb is easy to construct and potentially disastrous. In this video, Brill explains what would happen to Washington, D.C. if a dirty bomb were to hit, and how the federal government can and should prepare its citizens for such a destabilizing event.
In 2015, the fencer Nzingha Prescod—her mother named her after a warrior queen from Angola—became the first black woman to win an individual medal at the Senior World Championships. This short film by Anderson Wright, NZINGHA, follows Prescod's fencing journey under the tutelage of the African American fencer Peter Westbrook. Now, she's competing for the United States at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. “I wouldn't want to leave this sport without something that represented how much of my energy I put into it,” she says. “If I were to medal at the Olympics, it would show so many little kids that just because you don't see someone that looks like you doing this, doesn't mean it's impossible.”
