Tom Wang/Shutterstock What makes language special is part of what makes us special, so understanding what language is made of and how we learn it brings us closer to our human nature. Is language special because it runs on its own unique piece of mental software written into our DNA?Continue Reading
Erdene shares her story of coming out in Mongolia A rainbow flag outside the Great Khural, Mongolia’s parliament building, Ulaanbaatar, March 2019. Photo (c): The LGBT Centre Mongolia. Used with permission. During the summer of 2017, I spent some months in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia’s capital city. There, I met a youngContinue Reading
Mass protests, strikes and calls for Alexander Lukashenko to step down after a disputed election have raised the prospect that his long grip on power in Belarus may be coming to an end. But Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, is widely expected to play a decisive role in what happens nextContinue Reading
Dias Santana is 80% an Angolan production and 20% South African Netflix advertisement for the movie Santana, to be premiered on 28 August. Screengrab. Image text: “I want Dias Santana and his brother dead” From August 28, an Angolan production will appear for the first time in Netflix’s catalogue. It isContinue Reading
In the summer of 1940, with the threat of German invasion in the air, some of the wealthy and influential of Britain began privately evacuating their children to the USA and Canada. The result was an impression of grave social injustice. When the Conservative MP and socialite Henry “Chips” ChannonContinue Reading
Alexei Navalny, a prominent Russian opposition politician and activist, has been hospitalised after a suspected poisoning. Navalny’s spokeswoman suggested he was poisoned by something in tea he drank on the morning of August 20 before boarding a flight from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow. While on the flight,Continue Reading
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Concert with Uyghur musician (the one holding the guitar) Perhat Khadiq from the group Qetiq. Screenshot from YouTube video. In many societies living under oppression and cultural denial, music is often the only space and form of resistance. This is particularly true for the 11 million Uyghurs in Western China,Continue Reading
The answer: It depends. A selection of headlines from Anglophone media showing diverse editorial practices with the surname of Belarus’ longtime ruler. Belarus provinces map by Golbez (CC BY-SA 3.0). Image of Alexander Lukashenko by Serge Serebro, Vitebsk Popular News (CC BY-SA 4.0). Graphic remixed by Georgia Popplewell (CC BY 3.0)Continue Reading
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