By Amnesty International
Responding to reports that Israeli forces intercepted 22 vessels and detained around 175 crew members of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was attempting to break Israel’s illegal blockade and deliver essential humanitarian aid to the occupied Gaza Strip, amidst Israel’s ongoing genocide, Amnesty International’s Senior Director for Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns, Erika Guevara Rosas, […] The post Israel’s brazen interception of Global Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza sparks fears for 175 arbitrarily detained appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
His health is not good, but he is strong in spirit Besigye is strong in spirit. He continues to state his innocence, and he continues to remind people that all this is political and that you never give up what you believe in, what you stand for politically, just because you are being persecuted. So, […] The post He continues to resist despite his frail health: wife of jailed Ugandan politician Kizza Besigye appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Laura O'Flanagan, PhD Candidate, School of English, Dublin City University
Twenty years after the first instalment catapulted Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt onto Hollywood’s A-List, The Devil Wears Prada is back with a second incarnation. The sequel reunites the pair with Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci for a fun, frothy – but not very devilish – time.
Set at Runway, a thinly veiled fictional version of Vogue magazine, much has changed in the world of journalism since the first film was released in 2006.
Anne Hathaway’s Andy Sachs has spent the intervening years becoming…
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By Rassim Khelifa, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology; Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Global Change Biology, Concordia University
Carlos Antonio Lopez Manzano, Master's student, Department of Biology, Concordia University
Black soldier fly larvae can convert Canada goose feces into protein and fertilizer, transforming an urban nuisance into an agricultural resource.
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By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
Breast, bowel, kidney, pancreatic and ovarian cancer were among the types of cancer found to be increasing in people aged 25 to 49.
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By Elisabetta Magnanti, Visiting Research Fellow, English, Trinity College Dublin
Mark Faulkner, Assistant Professor in Medieval Literature and Director, Trinity Centre for the Book, Trinity College Dublin
The manuscript had long been presumed lost and, as a result, had never previously been examined in detail by Bede scholars.
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By Judith Brocklehurst, Visiting Lecturer, BA Fine Art Mixed Media, University of Westminster
The term “handpicked” suggests a bouquet that has been chosen carefully, each flower selected for its colour, form or meaning and relation to the others. The curators of this new exhibition at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge have certainly achieved a complex yet complementary arrangement.
This small but rich exhibition was picked and approved with the help of The Kettle’s Yard Community Panel – a collective of Cambridge…
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By Caroline Wagner, Professor of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University
James Olds, Professor of Neuroscience, Policy and Government, George Mason University
The Trump administration fired the entire board that oversees the National Science Foundation, raising an age-old question about the separation of science and state.
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By Sarah J. Morath, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for International Affairs, Wake Forest University
A case involving the potential dangers of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the weed killer sold as Roundup, could affect broader consumer-protection efforts.
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By Kyle Fiore Law, Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Sustainability, Arizona State University
Stylianos Syropoulos, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University
Caring about future generations means believing that people who will live decades or centuries from now deserve ethical consideration. In practice, that means taking their interests into account when making all kinds of decisions across a range of issues – from aggressively cutting carbon emissions to investing in pandemic preparedness initiatives and regulating powerful emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence.
While it may sound like a niche moral view to care about future generations in this way, our…
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