The Not-Quite-American Feeling of Being a 1.5 Generation Immigrant

When you move to a new country as a kid, you never fully fit in with your home culture or your adopted culture.
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Software Error Doomed Japanese Hitomi Spacecraft

Space agency declares the astronomy satellite a loss. By Alexandra Witze. (Apr. 29)
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Sky Magic: A Mesmerizing Light and Sound Show of 20 Drones Equipped With 16,500 LEDs

Sky Magic is a type of drone developed by Japanese tech company MicroAd. But what makes these flying devices special, and earns them their name, is that they're equipped with hundreds of LEDs that can be controlled to generate mesmerizing lights shows. Case-in-point: the recent live performance at the foot of Mt Fuji with a group of Shamisen players.
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Spain’s cursed village of witches

This tiny village has been excommunicated, and cursed with a spell so powerful that only the Pope can lift it.
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Is Europe lurching to the far right?

A right-wing populist takes pole position in Austria's presidential vote prompting warnings of a European surge to the far right.
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Syria can't get worse? Check out the Turkish border

On the frontier with Turkey that EU leaders are afraid to visit, violence threatens the already fragile deal to keep refugees out of Europe.
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My return to Syria

'I had tried to revisit the Syria I once fell in love with, but there was just nothing left.'
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