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A Painfully Intricate Map of the World, Drawn With a Single Line

This marvelous artwork, available as a poster or shower curtain, wants us to embrace refugees.
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Joseph Berkner

Joseph Berkner, a geoinformation-science student in Berlin, is sick of hearing people talking trash about migrants.

“These days there are many discussions about refugees in the media here in Germany,” emails Berkner, who’s 24. “And when I see comments on websites like ‘They don’t belong here’ or ‘Most of them are men or criminals,’ I feel like many of these people have never been in contact with people of other nations (or made bad experiences once and therefore created their own stereotypes for the rest).”