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Joy,’ ‘OITNB’ Star Dascha Polanco On Female Empowerment In Hollywood

“I want you to smell me.” It’s not your typical conversation starter, sure, but Dascha Polanco— a star of both the Netflix series Orange Is the New ...

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Worries Grow Over Humanitarian Impacts Of 'Strongest El Nino'

The strongest El Nino on record is likely to increase the threat of hunger and disease for tens of millions of people in 2016 aid agencies say. The weather phenomenon is se...

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Health

BCG Vaccine Demonstrates Long-Lasting Effectiveness

Recent data showed the bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine reduced the risk for tuberculosis after 40 years of vaccination, suggesting the vaccine may be more cost-effec...

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Environment

Your Birth Control Pills And Hamburgers Might Be Making These Fish Intersex

A strange thing is happening to male smallmouth and largemouth bass swimming in waterways in parts of the Northeast: They are increasingly showing up with characteristics o...

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Sustainable Development

The Eight Best Extinct Species Discovered In 2015

2015 was an exceptionally productive year for paleontology. Brontosaurus made a comeback. Paleontologists further decoded the coloration patterns of long extinct animals. J...

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Hollywood

The Female Force Awakens as Star Wars Has Four Strong Women Roles

The Bechdel Test is a far from perfect measurement of the accuracy and integrity of gender portrayal, as Alison Bechdel herself has admitted, but it’s one that has fi...

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Bollywood

Priyanka Chopra Lends Support To Campaign Against Anaemia

The actress was in the national capital on Wednesday to launch the nationwide Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplement (WISF) awareness campaign along with Health Minister JP ...

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Environment

This Is What China Looks Like When Its Cities Are On A 'Red Alert' For Smog

A red alert is the highest of a four-level warning system aimed at communicating to the public the amount of hazardous particles in the air. The alert is triggered when the...

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Sustainable Development

Could A Big Cosmic Mystery Be Caused By Asteroids Slamming Into Dead Stars?

Since 2010, radio astronomers have been contending with a mystery: a handful of very intense, very short lived signals have been detected, and disappeared just as quickly. ...

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Gender

“Feminized Poverty”: Poverty A Woman’s Face?

Poverty has different connotations depending upon the circumstances under which we construe it. One such connotation is gender based poverty or feminized poverty. Feminizat...

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