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Meet 12 Badass Scientists…Who Also Happen To Be Women

Everywhere you look, odds appear stacked against women in STEM. Young male scientists receive up to twice as much funding as their female counterparts in Boston&r...

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Festivals

Films From Alaska And Around The World Screen At Anchorage Festival

At the Anchorage International Film Festival, which takes place Dec. 4-13, the cinematic fare ranges from serious to absurd, informative to atmospheric, animation to Alaska...

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Hollywood

Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2016 Competition, Next Films

The latest films by returning Park City alums So Yong Kim, Antonio Campos, Jeff Baena and Chad Hartigan; timely documentaries on gun control, abortion rights...

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Health

Maternal Mortality Declining But Still Above Goal

Maternal mortality rates have dropped substantially over the past quarter century but still are not declining fast enough to meet ambitious international goals for eradicat...

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Gender

13 Women Who Transformed The World Of Economics.

Economist Justin Wolfers recently wrote about how female economists are airbrushed out of academic discussion when they have a male co-author. We decided to bring...

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Festivals

Sundance 2016 Film Festival: Latinos Represent In The World Cinema Competition.

The Sundance Film festival has announced its competition slates with many Latinos among the World Cinema Competition. This year Colombia will be presented with the new film...

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Environment

Climate Warriors – 13 Women, Activists, Diplomats & Un Climate Change Chief

Every year, the?United Nations holds a summit on climate change, where?it works?to persuade countries large and small to give up fossil fuels. This annual gathering, now in...

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Kaleidoscope

7/7/07: Heart Of Darkness

Reyhaneh Jabbari was just nineteen when she was arrested for the murder of a man who tried to rape her. After six years of torture and torment she was hanged in October 201...

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Retroscope

Retroscope - Unsung Talents

It was the day they got married, remembers Mrs Salil Chowdhury, chuckling to herself, when the letter arrived inviting Chowdhury to Bombay. The particular letter that was t...

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Gender

How Far Have Women's Rights Advanced In The Past 20 Years?

Extreme poverty won’t end until gender inequality ends. That’s the unavoidable reality. The continued oppression of women around the world generates t...

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