Welcome to the new themed Daily Dose. Each Sunday, we’ll take you ”Around the World” with OZY’s most global features. Today, meet the German prankster who helped declare a far right emergency in Germany and discover how Africa-born fighters are taking over MMA (pictured). Tomorrow, our theme is the “New and the Next.” Any feedback? Just hit reply.
| Max Aschenbach's proposal to declare neo-Nazis an emergency on par with climate change started as a joke. No more. Some people enter politics because they want to make the world a better place. Max Aschenbach, a city councillor with Germany’s ‘joke’ political party Die Partei, has a slightly different aim. “I wanted to piss off all those assholes who ruined everything,” he says. | READ NOW |
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| | What do you do with a river full of dumped spiritual flowers? Make a product that gives back. Some 8 million tons of fresh flowers, which are offered in ritual to deities in temples across the country, are dumped into rivers each year in India because they cannot be discarded — it’s considered disrespectful. But many of the blooms are loaded with pesticides and insecticides that enter the river system and harm marine life. Software engineer Ankit Agarwal has developed a nice-smelling solution. | READ NOW |
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| | | With two world champions, Nigeria — and Africa — could be the future of the MMA. |
| | Social entrepreneur Lolo Cynthia offers a moneymaker for rural women. |
| | Bolivia's Aymara people have for centuries depended on a potato-based product called the chuño as a staple. Now, the chuño's days might be numbered. |
| | Hip-hop is becoming an unlikely bridge over ethnic, religious and economic divisions for Myanmar's youth. |
| | The toughest journey for migrants trying to reach Europe isn't the Mediterranean. It's a patch of Libya's heartland. |
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