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Gender

Japan’s Gender-Bending History

I’m an anthropologist who grew up in Japan and has lived there, off and on, for 22 years. Yet every visit to Tokyo’s Harajuku District still surprises me. In th...

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Environment

Australia Placed On El Niño 'Watch' As Weather Bureau Puts Chance At 50% for 2017

Analysis shows steady warming in the Pacific Ocean and that Australia could be in for a warmer and drier year Australia could be heading into another El Niño year ac...

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Bollywood

Randeep Hooda Advocates Women’s Freedom Of Expression In The Promo Of MTV’s Big F – Watch Video

After tasting success with season one, MTV’s Big F is back. It has got bigger with Bollywood’s hunk Randeep Hooda as the narrator. The first season spoke about ...

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Environment

NASA Filmed Water Escaping Down Giant Cracks In The Greenland Ice Sheet

The Greenland ice sheet is melting, pushing more water out into the ocean, and contributing to global sea level rise—one of the major risks of climate change. Now, NA...

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TV

Wanted: Content For Change

Back in the 1990s, I was at a lesser known Irani bakery in Pune; other than the famous Shrewsbury biscuits, this one was also famous for bread rolls. My aunt made several v...

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Gender

What I Learned From ‘Gender Revolution’

“It’s hard to hate up close.”  ― Dr. Oz I have spent the last several months immersed in a documentary for National Geographic called “Gender...

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Sustainable Development

This Augmented Reality App Tells Indigenous Stories In Canadian Cities

Wikiupedia aims to be a digital network of Indigenous knowledge. Adrian Duke showed me his phone while we stood outside Vancouver's Skwachàys Lodge. An animated rave...

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TV

Of Meanies And Queens

What’s a soap opera without a couple of mean women or vamps? Call them what you may, these epitomes of the Wicked Witch from the West or East from the Wizard of Oz, a...

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Sustainable Development

Why The Higgs Boson Found At The Large Hadron Collider Could Be An ‘Impostor’

In 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland famously found a particle that acted like the Higgs boson, an elusive and long-theorized particle tha...

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Gender

Girls Rehabilitated From Red Light Areas To Model At Lakme Fashion Week

Fashion is transient. One day you’re trending, and then you’re not. Yet, the industry continues to boom, especially in India. Several designers have made their ...

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