America’s dogs are a husk(y) of what they once were.
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America’s early dogs are all gone – save for their rather nasty cancer.
Debates over the history of colonialism have sparked controversies on university campuses in recent years, as illustrated by the removal of a statue honoring Cecil Rhodes at the University of Cape Town in 2015.
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Would an academic work that makes a case for genocide be fair game for publication, or is it beyond the ethical bounds of legitimate scholarly debate?
Empires massively affected the development of science.
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This episode of the In Depth Out Loud podcast outlines the importance of finding a way to remove the inequalities promoted by modern science.
An 1870 news report said wild horses were “hated and shot by all”. What has changed since?
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Brumbies have a devoted following among high country locals, despite the fact that they were despised by colonial settler farmers. Their mythical status today owes a lot to cultural figures such as Banjo Paterson.
A map from 1794 shows Fuego Volcano next to Antigua and Nueva Guatemala.
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Fuego and other volcanoes are considered sacred in the Maya culture, but forced Spanish colonisers to move their new capital city.
The Kowie River follows a ‘horseshoe bend’ between Port Alfred and.
Bathurst.
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The analysis of the Kowie River rehearses the warnings provided by the colonial and post-colonial destruction of culture and nature.
Still from the movie Un rêve français (“A French Dream”) by Christian Faure, which tells the story of a young Guadeloupean couple during a little-known, tragic time of French post-colonial history.
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Great Britain was not the only country behaving badly with its Caribbean population: France also experienced similar waves of post-war migration.
SpongeBob Squarepants has become a cultural icon.
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The cartoon-turned-Broadway sensation is set in a place named after the Bikini islands, which has a dark history of forced removal and exile of native people from their land.
In this file photo, cognitive scientist and psychologist Steven Pinker addresses the Origins Symposium at Arizona State University on April 6, 2009 in Tempe, AZ.
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Steven Pinker’s latest work disturbingly casts aside the violent exploits and mechanistic logic of Eurocentric “progress.”
The Russian bear still stalks the world.
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Vladimir Putin’s Russia is as much an imperial power as its Soviet and Tsarist predecessors were.
Anti-apartheid cleric Trevor Huddleston, centre, with South African liberation struggle icons Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela in 1991.
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Bishop Huddleston’s criticism of Enoch Powell’s incendiary “Rivers of blood” speech was both a history lesson and a call to action against racism.
The rebellious French generals Edmond Jouhaud, Raoul Salan, and Maurice Challe (from left to right) leave the General Delegation in April 23, 1961 in Algiers, after taking power (with General Zeller) to oppose the Algerian policy of General de Gaulle. The Public Salvation Committee intended to preserve French Algeria was formed on 13 May 1958 with General Massu as its president.
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In May 1958 General de Gaulle returned to power and established the Fifth Republic. Yet despite the monumental changes of that time, many in France today still don’t understand what really happened.
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It’s not far-fetched to suspect that the common understanding of the idea of “mother tongues” in South Africa is coloured by outside influences.
Uganda has some of the most severe anti-gay laws in the world.
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Of the 72 countries that still criminalise gay sex today, at least 38 of them were once subject to British colonialism.
The spectacular Wellington Caves are a tourist attraction - and a fossil site.
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The 19th-century British anatomist Richard Owen downplayed the role of colonial contributors and largely ignored the importance of Aboriginal testimony and knowledge in describing the marsupial lion.
The statue of Captain Cook in St Kilda, Melbourne, was painted pink on January 25 2018.
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The federal government will spend nearly $50 million over four years to commemorate Captain Cook’s first landing. But some have questioned the spend.
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A furious Twitter row between a TV personality and South African politician about slavery sheds light on the failings of arguments in 280 characters.
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AI seems able to answer questions at the heart of humanitarianism – questions such as who we should save, and how to be effective at scale.
Thomas Johnson’s illustration of his banana plant from The Herball Or Generall Historie of Plantes.
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The story of Britain’s favourite tropical fruit (and how it came to dominate the world).
Anti-cholera inoculation in Calcutta in 1894.
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A long read on how science’s dark imperial past still shapes research today – and what to do about it.