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Human Rights

Katherine Johnson: Advanced Human Rights With A Slide And Pencil

When I was growing up, in segregated South Carolina, African-American role models in national life were few and far between. Later, when my fellow flight students and I, in...

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Environment

All That Glitters Is Not Green: Costa Rica's Renewables Conceal Dependence On Oil

Unless you’ve avoided social media for the last week, you probably know that last year, Costa Rica was able to produce 98% of its electricity without oil – a fe...

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Hollywood

Djimon Hounsou Visits Nigeria With Oxfam

Earlier this month, Academy Award-nominated actor and Oxfam Global Ambassador, Djimon Hounsou, visited Nigeria to meet families living in desperate conditions as they face ...

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Trending

At 13, Indian Girl Invents Revolutionary Band-Aid That Bags Her Google Science Prize

While some professions rely on the skill and experience of their workers, the tech industry thrives on constant growth and innovation. None exemplify this better than the p...

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Gender

This Terracotta Invention Is Easing Periods For Young Rural Girls

In India, anything related to menstruation is treated like a state secret, whispered about behind closed doors and wrapped in brown paper. As a result young girls across th...

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Environment

Grass Was Greener But Wildlife Struggled In Muggy 2016

Farmers made hay but rampant grass growth in 2016 made life hard for butterflies and even puffin chicks, according to a review of the year’s wildlife and weather by t...

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Kaleidoscope

All It Takes Is Courage

Sushmita Mukherjee’s new one-woman show, Naribai, has her play a face-off between two been interesting women of different social strata. Sunaina is an upper clas...

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Alternative Entertainment

Pedro Almodovar Has Made 20 Films And Is Still Making Great Ones

Is there anyone like Pedro Almodóvar? For those who know his work—and for a sometimes-experimental queer Spanish director, that’s more people than you&rs...

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Health

‘Reproductive Health Services, Female Education Can Slow Population Growth’

The analysis says achieving the SDGs set by the UN in 2015 for the period up to 2030 would lead to a global population of between 8.2 to 8.7...

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Health

Growing Up Stunted

Shivraj, namesake of the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, lost his one-year-old son Dharmraj in August this year. “His growth was extremely slow, and he was getting ...

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