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Marissa Zappas Aims To Disrupt The Fragrance Industry By Using Scent To Connect Women Of The Past To Women Today

wyskMay 10, 2019

Marissa Zappas is an anthropologist turned perfumer who has combined her two passions into an artisan fragrance collection called Redamance. It’s a historical ...

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Dr. Beatrice Tinsley, The Birth Of Galaxies, And The Ever-Expanding Universe

Dale DeBakcsyMay 8, 2019

Dr. Beatrice Tinsley lived on our resolutely turning planet for only four decades, but in that time she gifted us a vision of the cosmos as dynamic and expandi...

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‘Nailed It’: The 20 Vietnamese Refugee Women Who Sparked The Multibillion Dollar Nail Salon Industry

wyskMay 7, 2019

Premiering today, May 7, is Nailed It, a new documentary by filmmaker Adele Free Pham that uncovers the history of the Vietnamese nail salon. In every city,...

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Sneak Peek Of Toni Morrison Documentary “The Pieces I Am”

wyskMay 2, 2019

As committed fans of Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison, we are very excited for the new documentary film The Pieces I Am, which chronicles the legendary...

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Hedy Lamarr: The Movie Star Who Invented Bluetooth… In 1942

Dale DeBakcsyMay 1, 2019

A movie star. An avant-garde composer. A radio-controlled torpedo. Wi-Fi. One of the unfortunate truths about our web of modern comforts is tha...

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March For Our Lives PSA Shows “Expert” Middle Schooler Teaching Adults What To Do In Case Of A Shooting At Work

wyskApril 30, 2019

March For Our Lives, the a student-led organization demanding stronger gun violence prevention measures, has released the new PSA Generation Lockdown (**this v...

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“At The Heart Of Gold” – New Documentary Explores The U.S. Gymnastics Scandal That Rocked The World

wyskApril 26, 2019

The new documentary, At The Heart Of Gold: Inside The USA Gymnastics Scandal "shines a light on the shocking stories of gymnast survivors who made courageous e...

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From Where I Stand: “We are trying to build a drone…to dispense medicines in rural areas” – 15-Year-Old Coder, Eno Ekanem, Abuja, Nigeria

wyskApril 25, 2019

By UN Women - Fifteen-year-old Eno Ekanem was among 80 girls from 34 African countries who attended the first Coding Camp in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 24 August...

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9-Year-Old Riley Dashwood’s Celeb Photo Recreations Are Hilarious

wyskApril 25, 2019

Ok, we’ve seen a lot of cool and fun photo recreations over the years, but 9-year-old social media pro Riley Dashwood has taken it to next level awesomeness. &...

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