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Air Pollution Kills 5.5 Million People A Year — Over Half Of Them In China, India

Air pollution caused more than 5.5 million premature deaths in 2013, with more than half of those occurring in China and India, according to a new study, and pollution mort...

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Gender

Women Considered Better Coders – But Only If They Hide Their Gender

When a group of computer science students decided to study the way that gender bias plays out in software development communities, they assumed that coders would be prejudi...

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Environment

The Train Derailment That Gushed Oil Into A Quebec River Has Spawned Freaky Fish

What is shocking, however, is the extent of the problem: the rate of the deformations in one sample was found to be ten times higher than normal.
The 2013 derailment o...

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Environment

Greenhouse Gases Could Eventually Heat The Earth Enough To Boil Its Oceans Away

In 2013, NASA’s former chief climate scientist James Hansen published a short whitepaper that warned if humans burned all the planet’s available fossil fuels, i...

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Sustainable Development

The Destructive Influence Of Imaginary Peers

We humans irrationally think we’re rational. We think that we decide how to behave by weighing the pros and cons. In reality, the strongest influence on our decisions...

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Health

The Zika Declaration

THE Zika virus has been the predominant item across news agencies this past couple of weeks. Until the outbreak in Brazil in May last year (2015), most of us can probably s...

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Human Rights

Universal Human Rights - The Foundations Of The Global Goals

This April will mark the third anniversary of one of the world's worst industrial disasters in history. In 2013, over 1,100 workers were tragically killed during the collap...

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Human Rights

India: Supreme Court Revisits “Sodomy” Law

India’s Supreme Court agreed on February 2, 2016, to hear an appeal of its2013 decision that upheld a discriminatory law criminalizing same-sex relations, Human Right...

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Bollywood

Kalki Koechlin: In Bollywood, The Hero Leads The Script

With her unconventional looks, choice of roles and rare candour, Kalki Koechlin's stock in Bollywood as a nonconformist has steadily risen over the years. Last month, she a...

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Another Chance: The Supreme Court Holds Out A Sliver Of Hope That Section 377 May Be Legally Diluted

Hope flickers again. The curative petition on the Supreme Court’s 2013 judgment upholding Section 377 has been referred to a larger five-judge constitutional bench. S...

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