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Family doesn't guarantee anything, if you are a sea creature
O brother, where art thou?bensonkuaThe often remade song “He Ain’t Heavy… He’s My Brother” probably owes a good deal of its enduring popularity to its depiction of the loving familial bond between two...
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Loss of innocence: the experience of exonerated death row inmates
Juan Melendez – one of 150 innocent people who have been released from death row. Witness to InnocenceJuan Melendez spent 17 years, eight months, and one day on Florida’s death row for a crime he did...
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L’Afrique façonne son avenir nucléaire (avec Moscou et Pékin)
Nombre de pays africains entretiennent une lubie nucléaire. Les États possédant des programmes relatifs à cette énergie sont perçus comme prospères et technologiquement en pointe, jouissant ainsi d’un...
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How time-poor scientists inadvertently made it seem like the world was...
A plague, or just an artefact?Jacob Gruythuysen, Author providedWhen is a jellyfish plague not (necessarily) a jellyfish plague? When time-poor scientists selectively cite the literature to make it...
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Comment des scientifiques trop pressés ont fait croire à une invasion de méduses
Méduses bleues.ProjectManhattan/WikimediaQuand est-ce qu’une invasion de méduses n’est pas (nécessairement) une invasion de méduses ? Lorsque des scientifiques, faute de temps, citent des textes de...
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Assessing the risk from Africa as Libya loses its chemical weapons
The threat of chemical weapon attacks is on the rise globally.Reuters/Ueslei MarcelinoLibya’s remaining chemical weapons left over from the Gaddafi regime are now being safely disposed of in a German...
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Seagrass is a marine powerhouse, so why isn't it on the world's conservation...
Seagrass meadows are often overlooked by the public but vital to the ocean ecosystem.Ben Jones, Author providedSeagrass has been around since dinosaurs roamed the earth, it is responsible for keeping...
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Far-sighted adaptation to rising seas is blocked by just fixing eroded beaches
Beach erosion in Nags Head, North Carolina, photographed May 15, 2005.Soil Science, CC BYCoastal communities around the world are struggling to adapt to rising sea levels and increasingly severe...
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All public universities get private money, but some get much more than the rest
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has more than $3 billion in its endowment.AP Photo/Gerry BroomeU.S. universities raised nearly US$47 billion in the academic fiscal year that ended in...
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WeWork debacle exposes why investing in a charismatic founder can be dangerous
WeWork wanted to be a lot more than a shared workspace. rblfmr/Shutterstock.comWeWork went from unicorn darling with a nearly US$50 billion valuation to a cautionary tale for gullible investors worth...
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Meditation apps might calm you -- but miss the point of Buddhist mindfulness
The market has been flooded with apps related to Buddhism and most of them claim to teach meditation.akiragiulia (pixabay.com)In today’s stressful world, mindfulness – a type of popular spirituality...
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Social distancing works – just ask lobsters, ants and vampire bats
Caribbean spiny lobsters normally live in groups, but healthy lobsters avoid members of their own species if they are infected with a deadly virus. Humberto Ramirez/Getty ImagesSocial distancing to...
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How subversive artists made thrift shopping cool
Customers shop during at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation's Out of the Closet thrift store in Columbus, Ohio.Jay LaPrete/APNational Thrift Shop Day (August 17) exists alongside other quirky holidays like...
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« Je suis accro au travail, mais je me soigne ! » : la pleine conscience au...
Connaissez-vous la « boulomanie » ? Il s’agit de l’addiction au travail, un terme issu de l’anglicisme « workaholism » pour décrire le besoin incontrôlable de travailler sans cesse, inventé par le...
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Zulu monarchy: how royal women have asserted their agency and power...
EPA-EFE/Phill Magakoe/AFP PoolThe passing away of South Africa’s Zulu king Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu in March 2021 refocused attention on the role of royal women in Zulu leadership. After the official...
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'A toxic policy with little returns' – lessons for the UK-Rwanda deal from...
One afternoon in mid-June, I sat with Ethan*, a local islander, at Nauru’s boat harbour. He was speaking about how life had changed in the country since the asylum deal with Australia was agreed. Just...
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We mapped a lost branch of the Nile River – which may be the key to a...
The pyramids at Giza, like dozens of others, are located several kilometres west of the current path of the Nile.Alex Cimbal / ShutterstockThe largest field of pyramids in Egypt – consisting of 31...
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