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These images of insular North Korea are jarring next to images from South Korea (whose democracy is pretty similar to the U.S.'s). The image parings show how radically different life is in each half of a divided Korea.

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Some songs you listen to can actually be helpful to the environment.

You might be wondering what the heck that means.

Well, press play on this fun playlist, and let me explain it to you.

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People are paying more attention to how unfairly women are treated in Hollywood.

With the recent revelation that 37-year-old actress Maggie Gyllenhaal was deemed too old to play a yet-unnamed 55-year-old actor's love interest in a movie and news that Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin were paid the same as their male co-stars even though Fonda and Tomlin are the main characters whose names are the title of the show, it has come to a fever pitch of unfairness.

This clip from AJ+ can clue you in a bit more:

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The Iraq-Iran war claimed so many lives. But this is a story about how it brought two lives together.

Also known as the Gulf War before the Persian Gulf War of the 1990s, it lasted 8 years, from 1980 to 1988. It tore almost a million people from their families and their futures. And in that chaos, two men — one Iraqi and one Iranian — met for the first time ... and then again 20 years later, under amazing circumstances:

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These men's lifelines became inextricably linked on the battlefield.

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