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Hurricane Katrina gave former prisoners a fresh start in new cities – how to give more people this route out of crime
Hurricane Laura’s landfall on the coasts of Louisiana and Texas came just as New Orleans prepared to mark the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and with the region already reeling from the coronavirus pandemic. For many, the wounds of the COVID-19 disaster and now Hurricane Laura are all too reminiscentContinue Reading
Are women leaders really doing better on coronavirus? The data backs it up
Over the last few months, there has been much discussion of leadership during the pandemic. What constitutes good leadership? Who has performed better and which countries have been worse? One pattern that emerged early on was that female leaders were seen to have handled the crisis remarkably well. Whether itContinue Reading
India’s Odia language added to Google and Microsoft translation services · Global Voices
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
The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for the environment · Global Voices
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
A brief history of chocolate – and some of its surprising health benefits
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
How worried should we be about the coronavirus resurgence in Europe? Three experts weigh in
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
Pupils in England and Wales head back to school: how teachers feel about the return
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
Disinformation about Belarus spreads in the Balkans via online portals and social media · Global Voices
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
How political attack adverts can backfire
'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
Misinformation: tech companies are removing ‘harmful’ coronavirus content – but who decides what that means?
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