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Investing In Health Workforces: The Path Towards The Sdgs Starts Here

Last month marked a transition from one era of global health and development to the next. Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals were agreed by 193 heads of...

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Sustainable Development

Berlin's Preeminent Vr Artists Explain Why Augmenting Reality Matters

Skyping with the Deutschland duo, we chatted about how 3D camera technology is going to be a part of your life sooner than you think, how the technology can be applied at n...

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Gender

How Do We Keep Girls In School?

Following the World Development Report (2012), we discuss policies that can change the price of schooling under three categories: (i) direct costs; (ii) indirect costs; and...

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Environment

How India's 'Sand Mafia' Pillages Land, Terrorizes People, And Gets Away With It

Nicknamed "red gold," the sand's individual particles are larger than those of other varieties, and its compressive strength makes it especially useful ? and highly prized ...

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Sustainable Development

The Creator of 'Ethical Ad Blocker' Is Trying to Build an Ethical Tech Business

Since its release, Kazemi has received emails from users who didn’t get the joke. One person wondered why they couldn’t access the BBC website because they didn...

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Sustainable Development

How A Pair Of Old Mines Helped Win A Nobel Prize In Physics

According to the Nobel prize committee, “the discovery has changed our understanding of the innermost workings of matter and can prove crucial to our view of the univ...

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Gender

Gender Parity Could Add 60% To India’s GDP By 2025

“The report analysed 15 gender equality indicators for 95 countries home to 93 per cent of the world’s women and 97 per cent of the world’s GDP”. An...

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Sustainable Development

Finally, A 'Reasonably-Secure' Operating System: Qubes R3

Last week, the software project announced the official release of Qubes R3, which includes major advances both for Qubes and for the future of secure operating systems. It ...

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Sustainable Development

On The Anniversary Of Sputnik, Here’s What The Probe Actually Discovered

Today marks the 58th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite ever to grace orbit, as well as the starting pistol of the space race. As ...

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Sustainable Development

What Do The Global Goals Mean For Girls?

17 is a magic number. Apollo 17 went to the moon, Michelle Obama was born on January 17, John Lennon met Paul McCartney when he was 17, and I am 17 years old. But perhaps m...

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