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NewsFusion for July 2018

Science...

• Why humans, and Big Macs, depend on bees | Science News
• NASA’S Kepler Spacecraft Pauses Science Observations...to Download Science Data | Astrobiology Magazine
• The Science (and the Scientists) Behind ‘Ant-Man’ | NY Times

Design...

• How Apple is leaning on design & privacy to succeed in the health industry | 9 to 5 Mac
• Design is like a drug | Fast Company
• The Misunderstanding That Led Ruy Ohtake To Improve Brazil’s Second Largest Favela | Arch Daily

Culture...

• Why are memes of black people reacting so popular online: addressing digital blackface | The Guardian
• XXXTentacion Signed $10 Million Album Deal Before His Death | NY Times
• German Chancellor Angela Merkel Meets the Fashion Council Germany | WWD

FAB Find | Beautiful Bee's Wrap

Simple. Sustainable. Stylish. That is the best and only way to describe Bee's Wrap, the "new" old-fashioned alternative to plastic for food bags and storage created by Vermont-based Sarah Kaeck. The keen technology? Organic muslin is infused with beeswax, jojoba oil, and tree resin. The antibacterial properties of beeswax and jojoba oil help keep food fresh and best of all, Bee's Wrap can be re-used again and again.

Cause model Summer Rayne Oakes makes bold stand for bees

Model, author, adviser, and TV host Summer Rayne Oakes often refers to herself as a 'cause model' because the fashion and art poses she strikes in her work are frequently done to raise awareness for social and environmental challenges that face our world. Her studies in entomology (insects) at Cornell may have prepared her well for her latest assignment, authoring an article and posing for a photoshoot on European honeybees (Apis mellifera) for the premier issue of Above Magazine - For the Earth coming out in October of 2010 (PLEASE NOTE: the photos and videos at this link, though educational and artistic, do contain nudity). Summer signed on to the job to help raise awareness for Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) in bees. The magazine's slogan is "Beauty will Save the World" so Summer's article and stunning photo editorial truly fits the bill. A preview of the issue is available online and it is filled with other outstanding science, design, and culture content that is certain to inspire. Read Summer's account of the photoshoot on her website, "The End of Bees - a story of survival" (PLEASE NOTE: the photos and videos at this link, though educational and artistic, do contain nudity).