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Amid skyrocketing living costs in New York City, many Chinese Americans are choosing to have relatives abroad care for their children until they’re old enough to attend school. The financial logic is sound, but what’s the emotional toll on a child raised between two worlds? According to Lois Lee, the director of New York City’s Chinese-American Planning Council, the ‘satellite baby’ phenomenon disrupts vital years of parent-child bonding and development, resulting in a ‘post-traumatic stress experience’ for these children once they return to the United States. A poignant and multifaceted look at a new struggle facing many immigrants to the US, Satellite Baby premiered at the DOC NYC film festival in 2015.
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Music
‘Dun dun dun duuun!’ Why Beethoven’s Fifth sticks in the head and stirs the heart
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Art
The irreverent duo who thumbed their noses at the Soviet Union and the US art world
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Computing and artificial intelligence
A scientist’s poor eyesight helped fuel a revolution in computer ‘vision’
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Ageing and death
Demystifying death – a palliative care specialist’s practical guide to life’s end
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Future of technology
Is this the future of space travel? Take a luxury ‘cruise’ across the solar system
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Fairness and equality
A tragicomic account of how the Los Angeles Police Department blew up a city block
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Stories and literature
A French Creole folktale nearly lost to time is given new, gorgeously animated life
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Computing and artificial intelligence
Struggling to learn how to do a backflip, Nikita takes on an unusual training regimen
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Deep time
When algae met fungi – the hidden story of life’s most successful partnership
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