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Takashi Murakami - The 2009 TIME 100 Finalists

AGE: 46 OCCUPATION: Artist PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1 PRO: His vibrant, trippy, occasionally hypersexualized work is beloved by celebrities (Kanye West, Marc Jacobs) and art collectors (My Lonesome Cowboy, his sculptural ode to onanism, sold last year for $15 million). CON: Art critics have sneered at Murakami's unapologetic cross-pollination of art and commerce. Next Indra Nooyi ncG1vNJzZmibn6PBprrTZ6uipZVjsLC5jq2gpp1fqL2mr8iao6xnoJawrK3GnqpomaKptqS4xGhnZWpobX11eJBxb2xuZGmscoSXbG1ua49mhXmAlHJqZWhgY7W1ucs%3D

The iPad Will Finally Get A Vital Feature: The Calculator

Math is going to be a lot easier on the iPad now. Apple announced at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday that it will finally be bringing the Calculator app to the iPad, receiving praise from those in attendance and on social media. The first version of the iPad was released in 2010, and in the 14 years since then, the tablet has never had Apple’s official Calculator app.

The Morning After: The Carrie Diaries Re-Virginizes Itself

Nino Muñoz/The CW I am Carrie Bradshaw. Or at least by the reckoning of The CW’s The Carrie Diaries–which puts the Sex and the City protagonist in high school in 1984–I’m roughly her age and pop-culture-reference peer. I also watched every episode of SATC when it originally aired, give or take. So I watched The Carrie Diaries pilot with interest, but expected to be disappointed. I wasn’t disappointed at all!

The Python: A revered symbol of worship in Nigeria

In many religions across Africa, pythons represent something sacred and revered. The temple is a historical and modern symbolism of spiritual practice in Benin republic. It also acts as a basilica for voodoo worshippers in West Africa and all over the world. In this town, pythons are respected and worshipped, rather than feared. In Nigeria, it is also still common to see such beliefs and religions. In those places, killing a python is forbidden and often attracts very serious penalties such as human-like funeral rites for the killed snake.