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How can we understand each other, especially when stereotypes cloud our view? An ethnographic movie captures a sense of the ‘other’ in an encounter between Maasai villagers and Dutch tourists.
Having a baby could provide even more motivation.
India’s laissez-faire attitude to drug regulation is a serious threat to global efforts to tackle antimicrobial resistance.
The region has welcomed resettled refugees for a few decades, but it has not always gone smoothly.
Kenya’s upcoming poll will continue despite opposition leader Raila Odinga’s decision to exit lawful processes prematurely. This will mean Kenyatta will likely win his second term in a row.
Seventy-five percent of all abortions in Latin America are illicit. In Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador, where abortion is totally illegal, the bans correlate with a generalized failure of the rule of law.
A new psychological intervention can help any parents - even those crippled by fear and self-blame - to become powerful recovery coaches to children with eating disorders.
Only around 10% of new drugs in development make it onto the market. A drug needs to go through animal trials, and then four phases of human trials to be deemed suitable for use in patients.
Constructing large dams can provide much needed electricity for Myanmar. But this can also threaten the livelihoods of millions.
What effect does India’s legal precariousness and lack of institutionalised support have on the ground? Most refugee groups have to rely on themselves.
Singing, music, films and dances are crucial in promoting and protecting the human rights of Africans with albinism.
Will the African population inevitably quadruple by the end of the century? And what are the reasons for this extraordinary growth?
Breast cancer rates in China are rising, and are expected to continue rising for the next three decades.
Evolutionary biologists ask very similar questions about species to those asked by linguists about languages.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono visited Canada on a peace mission: They met with leaders and asked difficult questions, relevant today. How do we effectively protest against social injustices and war?
By 2100, more than 50 per cent of the land now used to grow coffee will no longer be arable. Climate change is changing the game to such an extent that Canada could one day become a coffee producer.
People aren’t the perfectly rational, number-crunching risk-takers that traditional theory suggests. Research shows a whole variety of factors feed into risk-taking.
Fossils of a whale thought to be found only in southern waters have been discovered at two sites in the northern hemisphere.
China has successfully implemented afforestation to counter desertification. But, today, it faces another risk: its waters are declining.
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