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Study shows UK school textbooks teach a highly simplified version of US civil rights movement
Martin Luther King, Jr. giving his 'I Have a Dream' speech during the March in Washington, D.C., on 28 August 1963. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA As children return to school in the UK, they will encounter a curriculum that still pays little attention to black British history or culture. ThisContinue Reading
Novichok: how are victims surviving poisoning?
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is likely to survive a suspected poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok, according to the hospital treating him. There have now been at least six known cases of serious Novichok poisoning in the past two years. But only one victim tragically died from it. WhyContinue Reading
Yuzvendra Chahal, Dhanashree Verma Groove To Yashraj Mukhate Rap Song, Chris Gayle Replies. Watch | Cricket News
Yuzvendra Chahal and fiancee Dhanashree Verma’s rap rendezvous was a hit.© Yuzvendra Chahal/Instagram Yuzvendra Chahal and his fiancee Dhanashree Verma’s professions are poles apart. While Chahal is a professional cricketer, Dhanashree is a content creator. However, the impact of the COVID-19-induced lockdown is such that Chahal has seamlessly blended intoContinue Reading
Brexit: as the deadline looms, why are negotiations stalling?
EPA/Olivier Hoslet The UK left the EU on January 31 this year. Yet, the trading relationship between the two parties will not change until January 1 2021, when the transition period agreed by both sides expires. And with negotiators heading into their eighth round of talks to decide what theContinue Reading
Harbhajan Singh Pulls Out Of IPL, Says “Personal Reasons” To CSK | Cricket News
Veteran off-spinner Harbhajan Singh has decided to pull out of IPL 2020.© BCCI Veteran off-spinner Harbhajan Singh has decided to pull out of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 due to personal reasons. Harbhajan conveyed his decision to the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on Friday. He became the second cricketer fromContinue Reading
“Khon Kaen’s Had Enough”: Pro-democracy protest in northeast Thailand · Global Voices
Around 1,500 people gathered in front of the Democracy Monument Protesters held up signs and tablets showing their support for the movement’s three main demands: 1. Dissolving of parliament 2. End to the harassment of dissidents 3) Drafting of a new, democratic constitution. Photo by Adithep Chanthep. Caption from TheContinue Reading
Colombian and Chilean psychiatrists plead to care for mental health by avoiding COVID-19 overexposure of (fake) news · Global Voices
Misinformation should be avoided at all costs Photo from Pexels, under Pexels license Claudio Gonzalez, a Chilean man who lives alone in Punta Arenas, at the very south of Chile, is anguished about his future. He misses human contact and spending time with his loved ones. When in despair,Continue Reading
‘Curing blindness’: why we need a new perspective on sight rehabilitation
Many blind people want sight rehabilitation technologies to increase their independence. Tracy Spohn/ Shutterstock In a society focused on visual communication, being blind can have severe disadvantages. In fact, research shows blind people are at higher risk of unemployment, social isolation, and lower quality of life than sighted people. GivenContinue Reading
Netizens across former Yugoslavia celebrate 75 years of women’s suffrage · Global Voices
‘And women managed to win that right — be careful not to faint — under communism’ A married couple of Yugoslav Partisans in a photo taken in Slovenia, 1944. Source: znaci.net. Public Domain. This past August 11 marked 75 years since now-dissolved Yugoslavia’s granted women the right to vote. Human rightsContinue Reading
Why low and alcohol free beers could be considered health drinks
Refreshing in the scientific-medical sense, not just the pints-after-work sense. Syda Productions/Shutterstock It is often said that weak beer was drunk in preference to dirty water in European towns during the middle ages. This fact is probably overstated, but the idea that beer was nutritionally important in the medieval periodContinue Reading