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This is our new Friday Digest! Each Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. The ...

Today is World Kids Coloring Day! STAEDTLER and Save the Children are supporting this event in the United States but also in many other countries. On World Kids Coloring Day website, we can read: ‘Coloring plays a large role in the development of children. Here they express that which they cannot put into words. At the same time, coloring fosters creativity and stimulates the imagination. Spontaneously and without hesitation, children reach for ...

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has caused considerable damage, and the worst is yet to come: oil is expected to come ashore in the Florida Panhandle in the next few days. The Associated Press reported Thursday that some oil washed ashore at the mouth of the Mississippi River along the Louisiana coast. So far only sheens have reached some coastal waters […] No oil was found on 29 dead turtles that washed onto the Mississippi coast over the past ...

May 3 has been officially designated by the United Nations General Assembly as World Press Freedom Day. This day is celebrated across the globe every May 3rd, representing an opportunity to commemorate the fundamental principles of press freedom and to pay solemn tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the line of duty.  Freedom of expression, freedom of information and freedom of the press are essential to democratic participation and for ...

For this new Twitter Sunday, we wanted to share with you our Favorites Tweets from an American singer some venerate as a God (yes, some people do, we have seen them), Mister Tom Waits. His music is often defined as experimental, but also rock and jazz. His personality is what makes his music and almost everything he does very different from what we are used to see and hear. And that is why we like him so much. Here are our Favorites Tweets @tomwaits! ...

This is our new Friday Digest! Each Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. The ...

Shepard Fairey‘s new show, May Day, opens this Saturday at Deitch Projects (18 Wooster Street, New York City). That’s a great news for anyone, like us, who appreciate the work by this artist aka Obey Giant. About the exhibition (read more here): Deitch Projects is pleased to present May Day, an exhibition of new work by Shepard Fairey, as its final project. Titled not only in reference to the day of the exhibition’s opening, the multiple ...

We were like hypnotized by American artist Robert Cannon‘s work he calls Terraform Sculpture. What would an artist like Cannon, B.A. with distinction in Architecture, Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut), could do with concrete and moss? Amazing sculptures! We selected two of them from the Terraform Sculpture Imperial line to illustrate this post: left – Gauntlet (72 x 60 x 32) and right – Bucephalus (38 x 24 x 12). But you can see ...

On March 4, CARE presented its Half the Sky event in nearly 500 movie theatres across the United States, a one-night event inspired by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof’s and Sheryl WuDunn’s New York Times bestseller, “Half The Sky” which follows the stories of extraordinary women around the world as they struggle to overcome oppression. Kristof and WuDunn focus on three major problems facing women: sex trafficking, maternal ...

Last week, our Twitter Sunday was dedicated to the Save Darfur Coalition (follow the organization @SaveDarfur). Today’s Twitter Sunday is on a lighter note: we chose to share with you our Favorites Tweets @stephenfry. Stephen Fry is a British actor, writer, journalist, comedian, television presenter and film director, and his Twitter bio describes him as British Actor, Writer, Lord of Dance, Prince of Swimwear & Blogger. Stephen Fry is a great ...