America is facing an unprecedented public health crisis— opioid addiction and the subsequent loss of many lives. The prescription drug OxyContin has been attributed to many of these deaths. Amazingly, however, little is known about the proprietors of OxyContin— the Sackler family. Their secret? Calculated and lavish acts of philanthropy.
America’s Opioid Crisis: a Public Health Issue of Epic Proportions
A recent article published in the New...
Billionaire and founder of Insys Therapeutics, Dr John Kapoor, has been arrested for his involvement in a diabolical scheme involving his company's top selling opioid drug— Subsys. Curiously, it all went down on the very same day the Trump administration declared America’s opioid crisis as a national public health emergency.
According to CBS News, Kapoor was arrested early on Thursday morning at his home in...
Artist Max Zorn makes incredible 2-dimensional artworks, but he doesn't actually draw or paint anything to produce them: he constructs his artworks by meticulously...
American artist Mike Winkelmann has been creating digital art consistently since childhood, when his parents bought him a computer to keep him busy. For...
When artist and photographer Kim Keever grew tired of traditional painting methods, he began looking for ways to create interesting landscapes to shoot in the...
Artist Shawn Huckins is fascinated by the evolution of human communication. His paintings depict this timeline of evolution, brought on by the immediacy of...
Photographer Erik Johansson creates surreal scenes from his imagination using only his camera and some clever computer skills. He layers countless photographs into one...
In his ongoing series of installations titled 'Wallwave Vibrations', Italian artist Loris Cecchini turns gallery walls into liquid. Or so it appears. The illusory...
As a child, Japanese artist Tatsuya Tanaka became very resourceful at playtime. His imagination grew stronger and stronger and didn't stop in adulthood. His...
What do you get when you invite 75,000 people to the desert and ask them to express themselves without limits? Strange, sultry, spooky or scant - the...
