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The MAMA exhibit at the International Museum of Women opens today
The ever-innovative International Museum of Women is the online destination for art, stories and ideas that celebrate women around the world. Today it debuted its Motherhood Around the Globe exhibit with a stunning selection of paintings and photographs.
The IMOW aims to inspire a global conversation about mothers’ lives and rights in the 21st century and to boost awareness on issues such as improving maternal health worldwide. Maternal health is a good indicator of how a culture is doing overall and it’s a big part of the UN’s millennium development goals.
From IMOW: Read more...
News and Culture Five
What we’re reading today:
1. Good job, Scandinavians, Norway is the #1 best country for moms. Moms live long, don’t die in childbirth, and get a great maternity leave. Afghanistan is the worst place for moms, according to this annual survey from Save the Children. Canada ranked 20th while the U.S. is 31st.
2. Babble’s found 10 Angry Birds-inspired dishes. TheBabybel one is pretty great.
3. Reuters has compiled some “eerie links” between Harry Potter and Osama bin Laden. BoingBoing suggests these so-called links are pretty ridiculous. Good for the book-burning set we guess? A sample: “Just as Voldemort was shaped by his mother’s death and his father’s abandonment, Osama was shaped by his personal struggle between Western pleasures and Islamic discipline.”
4. Sarah Newton, aka the Youth Expert, wonders if today’s mean girls are meaner than mean girls a decade or two ago. Read more...
