On December 14, 2012 a gunman opened fire on Sandy Hook Elementary School, leaving 26 dead, including 20 young children. Reuters photographers share their experience covering the story that devastated Newtown, Connecticut and the rest of the country. Photography by Lucas Jackson, Adrees Latif, Joshua Lott, Michelle McLoughlin, Mike Segar, Shannon Stapleton and Eric Thayer. […]
When film critic Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw to cancer, he lost the ability to eat and speak. But he did not lose his voice. In a moving talk from TED2011, Ebert and his wife, Chaz, with friends Dean Ornish and John Hunter, come together to tell his remarkable story. TRANSCRIPT Roger Ebert: These […]
A film directed by Denis van Waerebeke for the « Bon appétit » exhibition, in Paris “Cité des Sciences.” How to feed the world ? from Denis van Waerebeke on Vimeo. written by : Sabrina Massen & Denis van Waerebeke /// design : Antoine Maiffret / Montag /// animation : Juliette Hamon-Damourette /// sound design : […]
Students at an Attleboro, Massachusetts, school have been ordered to throw away their school lunches the last two weeks if they did not have lunch credit or cash. One student told local station FOX 25 that she was not allowed to even have one bite: “They told me to throw it away because I didn’t […]
A defiant Naoto Matsumara, 53, is known in some circles as Radioactive Man for his refusal to leave his hometown despite its level of radiation. Now designated an evacuated zone, the quiet town of Tomioko, Japan, is located less than six miles from the recently crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Matsumara, a fifth generation rice farmer […]