By Chantal Gautier, Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Sex and Relationship Therapist, University of Westminster
Warning: contains minor spoilers for Dying for Sex.
When Molly (Michelle Williams) learns that her breast cancer has returned and time is now slipping through her fingers, she decides she isn’t ready to write off her ending. Not before living the chapter she’d never dared to start: the one about self and sexual discovery.
The Disney+ series Dying for Sex opens with a couples’ therapy moment that, as a sex and relationships therapist, I know well. Molly is craving more sex but her husband Steve (Jay Duplass) just isn’t feeling it. After one final attempt to elicit…
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By Jose Maria Barrero, Research Scientist, CSIRO
Gloria A. Adazebra, Research Scientist and Plant Breeder, CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute
Jerry A. Nboyine, Principal Research Scientist, CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute
TJ Higgins, Honorary Research Fellow, CSIRO
Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) is an indigenous and staple crop in sub-Saharan Africa, but it has an enemy: an insect called the legume pod borer (Maruca vitrata). This pest can cause yield losses of more than 80%. The pod borer, originally from south-east Asia, attacks the flowers, pods and seeds.
Conventional cowpea varieties lack resistance to the insect. Insecticide is the primary control…
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By Jason Hawreliak, Associate Professor, Game Studies. Department of Digital Humanities., Brock University
Video games are a very different media from films, with different functions and representational strengths and weaknesses that make adaptations challenging.
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By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor
It’s getting hard to figure out who all the US-sponsored talks over ending the conflict in Ukraine are supposed to benefit. Listening to Donald Trump over recent weeks, you could be forgiven for thinking it’s all about him.
In the past 48 hours, the US president has berated both the Ukrainian president, Volodymr Zelensky, and Russia’s Vladimir Putin for apparently dragging their heels over an agreement.
At present it’s Putin who is on the naughty step (although as we know this can change quite rapidly). After Russia launched strikes against Kyiv overnight on Wednesday,…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image European Union flags wave in the wind as pedestrians walk by EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File The European Union’s new Forced Labor Regulation will require companies to identify and eliminate forced labor in their operations and supply chains, Human Rights Watch and the Cornell Global Labor Institute (GLI) said today, releasing a question-and-answer document about the new law. The question-and-answer document provides details and guidance to companies and other stakeholders so that they can begin…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Buddhist monks mark the Songkran celebrations at Wat Pho temple in Bangkok, Thailand, April 13, 2025. © 2025 Anusak Laowilas/NurPhoto via AP Photo Ethnic Malay Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand shot dead Pongkorn Chumapan, 16, and wounded Pokanit Morasin, 12, on Tuesday when they attacked a pickup truck taking Buddhist monks and novices from Wat Kura temple to collect alms in Songkhla province’s Sabayoi district.Children have frequently been victims of the separatist conflict in Thailand’s southern border provinces, which has claimed more than 7,000 lives—mostly…
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By Arzu Geybullayeva
The proposal seeks to amend several key legal codes, including the Turkish Penal Code and the Law on the Establishment and Broadcasting Services of Radio and Televisions.
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By Forus
Frank Mugisha and Rosanna Flamer-Caldera are LGBTQ+ activists from Uganda and Sri Lanka respectively. Despite violence and social reprisal, they continue to fight against their countries' anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.
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By Nurbek Bekmurzaev
Turkmen riders covered 4,300 kilometers on Akhal-Teke horses in 84 days, including a 360-kilometer crossing of the Karakum desert without water and food for three days.
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By Amnesty International
Dozens of men on death row in Saudi Arabia for drug -related crimes are terrified for their lives amid a dramatic surge in executions for drug offences in the country over recent months, Amnesty International said today, based on information from family members of detainees on death row. Between January and April 2025, the Saudi […] The post Saudi Arabia: Families fear imminent execution of loved ones amid surge in drug-related executions appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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