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When Food Is Commercialized, It Removes People from Their Culture

Because mass-produced food has become more convenient than cooking at home, and because many people work two or three jobs, those...
Alicia Kennedy
4 min read

Violence Spreads Like A Disease. It Can Be Stopped Like One, Too

The "Cure Violence" model works by "interrupting transmission" of violence-employing street workers to intervene and try to cool down conflicts, preventing...
Samira Shackle
4 min read

How Outdated Cars Live On in a Smoggy Afterlife

Guatemala, like many developing countries, has serious air pollution issues driven by an influx of used vehicles from countries with tighter...
Martha Pskowski
8 min read

Is Your Fertility Data For Sale?

Could the sexual history information collected by period trackers be used by governments, corporations, or legal professionals to control or persecute...
Sian Williams Page
4 min read

WhatsApp Wants You To Stop Sharing Fake Stories

WhatsApp has key differences with platforms like Facebook and Twitter: it is private social media, which makes it harder to study...
Samira Shackle
3 min read

Quality Over Quantity: Bioethics at the Vatican

Several hundred scientists, physicians, and policymakers gathered in Rome in April 2018 for the International Vatican Conference, to discuss ethics in...
Joanne Lee
3 min read

Fact, Fiction, and the Future

These publications were meant to educate–but also to entertain. Their illustrations were drawn by artists who were also some of the...
Darren Garrett
9 min read

Please YouTubers, Don’t Make Us Pay To Interview You

Why should someone whose days are spent talking to a camera for money not talk to a journalist for money as...
Ian Steadman
2 min read

Outbreak

If an enterprising bookmaker decided to offer odds on which apocalyptic event is most likely to wipe out the human race,...
Simon Parkin
10 min read

The Human Machine

A series about the increasingly blurred lines between us and our machines.
Ian Steadman
1 min read