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Butchers’ shops sales boosted by local support under lockdown
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Coronavirus: Kazakhstan denies ‘unknown pneumonia’ reports but has imposed second national lockdown
Industrial premises being disinfected in Kazakhstan's capital, Nur-Sultan city. Turar Kazangapov Kazakhstan became the first country in the world to enter a second nationwide lockdown on July 5 following a spike in coronavirus cases. The two-week lockdown, which could be extended if the spread of the virus continues, restricts publicContinue Reading
Why Londoners in the blitz accepted face masks to prevent infection – unlike today’s objectors
People going to work during the blitz. Imperial War Museum/Wikimedia Commons As COVID-19 spread in Britain, journalists and politicians took to comparing the pandemic to the blitz. From the “blitz spirit” to the death toll, the German bombing campaign in the second world war has become a go-to for evaluatingContinue Reading
Here’s how scientists know the coronavirus came from bats and wasn’t made in a lab
Motortion Films/Shutterstock One of the conspiracy theories that have plagued attempts to keep people informed during the pandemic is the idea that the coronavirus was created in a laboratory. But the vast majority of scientists who have studied the virus agree that it evolved naturally and crossed into humans fromContinue Reading
Through the Orientalist looking-glass: An interview with Moroccan artist Lalla Essaydi · Global Voices
Lalla Essaydi, Harem #2, 2009. 71 × 88 in 180.4 × 223.5 cm. Moroccan artist Lalla Essaydi, 64, is well known for her dazzling, multidimensional staged photographs, which in spite of their simplicity, masterfully capture and challenge the complexities of social structures, women’s identities and cultural traditions. Essaydi‘s artworks not onlyContinue Reading
Year One: A Farm Can’t Survive Without Customers
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These communities are experimenting with greener and fairer ways of living
Springhill Cohousing Community, Stroud. United Diversity/Flickr, CC BY-SA Frankie lives in a six-bedroom house on the outskirts of Leeds. She is her own landlord, but doesn’t own the house. Instead she is part of a co-operative housing group: together, they have been able to buy the house and then rentContinue Reading
This women’s college in Ghana leads the way on e-learning during the pandemic · Global Voices
St. Teresa’s College uses Telegram and WhatsApp to engage students Veronica Kissiedu Emefa, a student teacher at St. Teresa’s College in Hohoe, Ghana, Volta Region, seen in class before the pandemic. Now, most courses have gone online. Screenshot via a trailer for documentaries produced by Elio Stamm for Transforming TeacherContinue Reading
Coronavirus media coverage must avoid the mistakes of the Aids pandemic in Africa
As COVID-19 becomes the most intensely covered virus in history, there are important lessons to be drawn from the media’s reporting of another global pandemic: HIV/Aids. Whose lives the world deems worthy of saving depends, at least partly, on the stories that journalists tell. This was one of the findingsContinue Reading
Alzheimer’s disease: protective gene uncovered in human cell model – bringing promise for new drug discoveries
Our method could someday potentially detect the disease before it starts developing in a person's brain. Robert Kneschke/ Shutterstock Every three seconds, someone in the world develops dementia. The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease. While researchers have identified a number of risk factors that are linked toContinue Reading