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A Second Glance at Education: Julia Cahn at TEDxCHSNED

Inspiration? Grades? Standardized tests? As a high schooler, Julia has had to face them all. In her slam poem, she attacks the system that demands that students are inspire...

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Gender

Learn About Challenges For Women With Disabilities

Last week, actress and feminist powerhouse Emma Watson made waves in the media after announcingthat she would be taking a year off of acting for “personal development...

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Teacher Wins $1-M Prize For Peace Lessons

A primary school teacher from a refugee camp in conflict-torn Palestine has won $1-million Global Teacher Prize for educating her students about non-violence, beating nine ...

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Festivals

SXSW: The Best And Weirdest Films From The Texas Film Festival

Indie film legend and writer-director of Boyhood Richard Linklater has called Everyone Wants Some!! the "spiritual sequel" to his Generation X comedy-drama Dazed and Confus...

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US School Girls Develop App 'Pharm Alarm' To Help Alzheimer's, Dementia Patients

Six young school girls in the US are currently developing an app to help patients suffering from Alzheimer's and dementia, remember to take their medications.
The seve...

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Alternative Entertainment

Farhan Firebird: How Class Politics Neglects White Working Class Girls

There's a risk that staging a play about the Rochdale child sex rings could descend into voyeuristic rehashing of real-life horrors. Luckily, Phil Davies has, in his debut ...

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Gender

Still A Man's World

IT IS still common to see headlines announcing the first woman to occupy some important post or other. Asako Suzuki has just been appointed the first female board member at...

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Health

WHO Outlines Ways To Prevent And Mitigate Childhood Hearing Loss

Nearly 32 million children across the world live with disabling hearing loss. A new WHO report, "Childhood hearing loss: act now, here’s how", suggests that 60% of th...

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Thought Factory

DEMOCRACY

I grew up in several places in India, amidst many changing political times as we know.
I lived with the two books, Discovery Of India by Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru,...

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Health

Stanford-Led Study Underscores Huge Gap Between Rich, Poor In Global Surgery

The number of surgeries performed worldwide has grown steadily, particularly in the developing world, yet there remains an enormous gap in surgical care between rich and po...

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