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Medical museums often display infant remains – how they were acquired was frequently harrowing and involved eugenic thinking
The inequality, stigma and eugenic thinking that led to their acquisition is often obscured or erased.
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Colombia’s new president ‘El Tigre’ promises an iron fist – but that may not solve the violence he has inherited
Dismantling the 2016 peace agreement and introducing a military clampdown is not the answer to rising levels of violence.
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Kenyans living in towns are farmers too: what this means for rural landscapes
The increasing control of rural agricultural land by urban residents has implications for rural people and spaces.
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Could AI create a new form of inequality in South Africa?
If AI is not designed properly, inequalities can reappear in new, digital forms.
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Is the Pope’s AI encyclical a warning on Tech Messianism?
We are living in a world backed by technology that seems to have a spiritual project of its own. Are the fears of the Pope’s AI-critical encyclical founded?
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The condition that causes people to get lost in their own home
The condition is more than merely being bad with directions.
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‘This was something new’: what people in Greenland told us about learning to live with wildfires
It’s the new reality in an Arctic where the climate is changing fast.
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Do you want to be an astronaut? Career routes that can take you to space
There is no one way to be an astronaut; you can’t go to astronaut school.
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Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy – an uncompromising memoir told through a difficult parent-child relationship
An uncompromising look at her own life through her complicated relationship with her mother.
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America at 250: the Britons who supported the War of Independence
America’s struggle for independence from Britain was supported by some highly influential thinkers in 18th-century Britain.