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Artemisinin: fighting coronavirus with this antimalarial drug is risky
Raffi Kojian/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Since the beginning of the pandemic, much work has been done to test whether antimalarial drugs can treat COVID-19. Hydroxychloroquine, the most well known, has been found to be ineffective. But in Africa, another drug has been attracting attention: artemisinin. Obtained from the sweet wormwoodContinue Reading
Why young people still want to go to university, even though it’ll be very different to usual
F8 studio/Shutterstock Applications to universities in the UK have increased during the COVID-19 lockdown. UCAS, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, has reported a 1.6% increase from last year, and over 40% of all UK 18-year-olds have now applied to university. This rise may come as a surprise. The universityContinue Reading
#BlackLivesMatter resonates in South Asia as Unilever drops ‘Fair’ from ‘Fair & Lovely’ cosmetic line · Global Voices
“This war of complexion has created a huge problem for our women” Fair and Lovely – Billboard for Skin-Whitening Cream – Chittagong – Bangladesh. Image from Flickr by Adam Jones. CC BY-SA 2.0. On 25 June, global cosmetic conglomerate Unilever announced a decision to re-brand its leading skin-lightening product ‘FairContinue Reading
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