June 10 2025: The Benin Bronzes were artefacts stolen during the UK’s imperial plunder of Benin, modern-day southern Nigeria.
Category: Humanity at its Best.
High Schoolers Who Found ‘Impossible’ Proof of Pythagorean Theorem Discover 9 More Solutions to it
Last year, two Louisiana high schoolers who used trigonometry to properly demonstrate Pythagoras’ Theorum, a mathematical concept that remained unsolved for more than 2,000 years.
I saw a Man transform before my eyes
A Band of Brothers brings young men together with older men in their communities to provide positive role models. The work centres around the careful manifestation of both compassion and accountability – and it’s lifechanging stuff, explains the charity’s CEO Conroy Harris.
Gen Z Students show the world hope
This is a short first hand account by the author of The Good News-Only.com site on the non-violent revolution he witnessed that was orchestrated by Gen Z students. This revolution, built on countless sacrifice of the student youth and public who were mowed down with many still injured, is the first successful non-violent revolution in modern history to ever result in the defeat of a ruthless, autocratic dictator.
UW-made The Silent Route Animated Film (by Faisal Hossain) wins more than 15 film awards
The Silent Route depicts tragic realities through its unique visual language without exposing the sufferings. Our aim is to raise a dissenting voice emphasizing that life is worth saving everywhere and inviting the audience to embrace their innate goodness. We hope that our animated short film builds empathy by sowing seeds of kindness and compassion in everyone’s hearts.
AI mediation tool could help people find common ground
The chatbot-like tool creates group statements that reflect majority and minority views, helping people to find areas of agreement
Overcoming bullets and internet blackouts
Gen Z is often characterized by a mix of positive and negative stereotypes.
The art of early engineering education
By day, they are engineering faculty focused on teaching and research. And by night, a handful of engineering faculty — possibly more — are writers, illustrators and even actors.
But they share more than a creative streak. The following four faculty have a passion for educating an even younger audience than the undergraduate classes they teach. By reaching out to the earliest of audiences, from elementary school students to teens, they ultimately hope to engage and inspire the next generation of engineers.
Students stand guard around temples & churches in Bangladesh
KOLKATA: As mayhem and chaos engulfed Bangladesh
Bangladesh students channel revolutionary spirit into flood relief efforts
The torrential rains that triggered the floods have wreaked havoc across 11 districts, including Feni, Chittagong, and Sylhet, and the magnitude of the disaster has overwhelmed traditional relief mechanisms, elevating the role of students to that of primary responders. In Dhaka, the capital, a surge of student activism has shifted from political protest to flood relief.