Meanwhile, similar open-source community efforts are in the pipeline Collage of Odia Book Covers. Image via Flickr by Erin Mclaughlin. From the Flickr set Odia Book Covers. CC-BY 2.0. While open-source initiatives are still underway, Google and Microsoft have both added the Odia language of India to their respective machine translationContinue Reading
Challenges at the intersection of health, ecology, and climate science A forestry worker, wearing a face mask for protection against coronavirus, gathers fallen wood from a tropical area, in Guinée, Africa. Photo courtesy Aboubacarkhoraa Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) COVID-19 lockdowns have yielded dramatic scenes of natural recovery: smog disappearingContinue Reading
k.nykyforova Chocolate in all its forms is something that I, along with many others like to indulge in on an almost daily basis. But chocolate as it’s enjoyed today is quite different from when it first arrived in Europe from South America around the 16th century. To the indigenous AztecContinue Reading
Coronavirus is back in large numbers across Europe. Since governments began to lift lockdowns at the start of the European summer, positive cases of COVID-19 have been steadily increasing in countries that previously had the spread of the disease under control, including Spain, France, Italy and Germany. In recent days,Continue Reading
Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock School closures across the world as a result of the coronavirus pandemic have caused significant disruption to the education system at all levels, affecting children, parents and school staff. Now, the closures across the UK are ending. Children went back to schools in Scotland from August 11Continue Reading
Protesters in Minsk on August 14, 2020. Photo by Melirius via Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. This story is based on reporting by Global Voices’ content partner Meta.mk News Agency, a project of the Metamorphosis Foundation. The recent political turmoil in Belarus has been accompanied by an increased amount of disinformation aboutContinue Reading
'What happened to Joe Biden?' A 2020 Trump campaign attack advert. Donald J Trump/YouTube A wave of political adverts is beginning to flood the American media as the November presidential election approaches. A major theme will be attack adverts in which one candidate will highlight the shortcomings of their opponent.Continue Reading
Pearl PhotoPix/Shutterstock The “infodemic” of misinformation about coronavirus has made it difficult to distinguish accurate information from false and misleading advice. The major technology companies have responded to this challenge by taking the unprecedented move of working together to combat misinformation about COVID-19. Part of this initiative involves promoting contentContinue Reading
Victims of mob attacks turned into rioters by the police Mobs stormed the Yuen Long Subway station on 21 of July 2019. Screen capture from a viral video on Twitter A Hong Kong lawmaker, Lam Cheuk-ting was arrested on August 26, along with 12 other individuals, in a case related toContinue Reading
Watering plants in Ethioipa: how young lives have been affected by COVID-19. © Young Lives / Mulugeta Gebrekidan For many young people around the world, the economic effects of lockdown policies have been more significant than the health impacts of coronavirus. Young people are going hungry, facing widespread job lossesContinue Reading
