Men Struggle To Read Tweets Sent To Female Sports Reporters

In 2014, video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, along with critic Anita Sarkeesian, were the victims of an online harassment campaign known as Gamergate. This...

Film Festivals Set For Next Week

Seen & Heard’ column by Dave MabellTV shows may come and go, but some films live on forever. Others, that really should be seen, may never reach their intended au...

Designing A World Where Environmentalists Win

“Captain Planet! He’s our hero…”
If you’re a millennial, you can probably fill in the rest. While the green-mulleted eco-hero didn&rsquo...

Bee Extinction Is Threatening The World’s Food Supply, UN Warns

Last Monday, members of nearly 100 national governments met in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur for a weeklong conference to discuss the threats facing animal pollinators...

Democracy's Dirty Word

- Is politics overtaking India's inherent humanism?

Why have we become so intolerant of the term "intolerance"? Crisscr...

Indian Women Seeking Jobs Confront Taboos and Threats

On a humid, sweaty, honking afternoon last summer, two women were making their way through the court complex in the north Indian city of Meerut, searching for the office of...

In Developing World, Cancer Is A Very Different Disease

In the United States the median age at which colon cancer strikes is 69 for men and 73 for women. In Chad the average life expectancy at birth is about 50. Children who sur...

Earth's Deepest Lake Is 'Seriously Ill'

Stretching for 395 miles, thirty-million-year-old Baikal is the world?s deepest lake, its volume roughly equivalent to the five Great Lakes of North America combined. A UNE...

What Works And What’s Missing In The New Global Goals

At the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in September, the U.N. officially launched the new global Sustainable Development Goals. These 17 goals and 169 associa...