15-year old Julia Bluhm is a ballet dancer and body image activist. You might see a disconnect, but Julia sees an opportunity; having seen her ballet friends struggle with body issues, she decided to do something about it.
15岁的朱莉娅·布鲁姆是一名芭蕾舞者，也是一名身体形象倡导者。没错，芭蕾——这项活动总让人联想到纤细至极的首席芭蕾舞女演员，她们优雅地拒绝炸薯条，转而投身于旋转跳跃之中。而身体形象倡导，则是那些充满热情的支持者不断提醒我们：每个人本来的样子就已经很美。你或许会觉得这两者之间存在矛盾，但朱莉娅却从中看到了一个机会。眼见芭蕾舞伙伴们深受身体形象问题的困扰，她决定采取行动。
2012年4月，她和朋友伊兹在Change.org上发起了一份请愿书，要求《Seventeen》杂志减少刊登经过Photoshop修图的模特照片。她们原本没有期待太大的反响，然而接下来发生的事情却令她们大为震惊。
原创文章，作者：codex2，如若转载，请注明出处：https://www.ormemo.com/2950.html
Corrupt officials and criminal operators are brilliant at hiding their money and actions from public view. But there’s something we can do about it, says the team at Global Witness. It starts with closing loopholes.
一支地质学家团队深入委内瑞拉桌山地下洞穴进行探险，这些山脉已有逾17亿年历史。记者拉尔斯·阿布罗迈特随队记录了这次探索之旅，团队试图揭开洞穴中可能已悄然演化数百万年的未知生命形式之谜。
Community member Michael Karassowitsch wants us to broaden the message from Sebastian Junger’s TED Talk, “Why veterans miss war,” and apply it to all citizens, not just those in the military.
To truly understand human history, David Christian wants you to take a step back — 13.7 billion years back. We asked Christian about the impact that his wide-lens concept of Big History has made since his 2011 TED Talk.
We can’t have an honest reckoning about race until we start to recognize all the ways in which privilege and prejudice creep into our lives, says author and digital strategist Luvvie Ajayi.
Five years ago, a tsunami and nuclear disaster led to the mass evacuation of the Fukushima region of Japan. Photojournalist Michael Forster Rothbart kept in touch with some of those directly affected by the incident; last September he traveled back to see how they were getting on. He shares some of his photographs, interviews and thoughts about the trip.
Psychologist Paul Bloom studies the nature of pleasure. In this conversation with Ben Lillie, he discusses how knowing the history of an object can profoundly affect our enjoyment of it.
Our unresolved, unacknowledged feelings can lead us into anxiety, arguments and worse. Some educators believe it’s time to give our kids emotional instruction along with their ABCs.
Evidence suggests that a society where men seek to monopolize the sexuality of women is prone to violent conflict.
Professional aphorist and all round word nerd James Geary shares his list of must-read books from authors covering literary life, proverbs, aphorisms, and the art of being quoted.