Category: Science
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

With Monuments Falling All Over Europe, We Asked Historians and Artists to Weigh in on How They Should Be Replaced “If the community wants [monuments] to be removed, then they should be removed, but they should remain in public view, by creating museums for them, as a reminder so that we don’t make the same…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Why The Small Protests In Small Towns Across America Matter These protests cut across demographics and geographic spaces. They’re happening in places with little in the way of a protest tradition, in places with majority white population and majority black, and at an unprecedented scale. People who’ve watched and participated in the Black Lives Matter…
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The Week in Stories Across the Globe

‘A Disgusting Display’: Police Fire Rubber Bullets, Stun Grenades, and Tear Gas at Demonstrators Protesting Killing of George Floyd “Firing them is a good start, but we want to see justice for our family. We want to see them charged. We want to have them arrested,” said Tera Brown, Floyd’s cousin. “What they did was…
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The Trump Administration Is Rushing Deportations of Migrant Children During Coronavirus “The government is removing very young children to no one,” Cubas said. “But our courts are in a state of emergency. Our media is COVID-19 all the time. We don’t even have congressional hearings right now in full force. There is less scrutiny.” #Trump #Deportations #Mexico #LatinAmerica…
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Welcome to the Freak Show

“When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.” – George Carlin The World Has Too Many Freaks So far, 2020 has been one hell of a roller coaster ride that is yet to end. A global pandemic has hit the United…
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‘Dengue kills too’: Latin America faces two epidemics at once As the coronavirus kills thousands and dominates government attention across Latin America, another deadly viral infection is quietly stalking the region. #LatinAmerica #Dengue #COVID #Ecuador Hong Kong parliament in chaos as politicians fight for chair “Deadlock in a legislature often is part of a healthy democracy as…
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Younger blacks and Latinos are dying of COVID-19 at higher rates in California “It attacks who it’s going to attack,” she said. “I don’t think that knowing that would have saved Scott or any black person or Latino person. Because you’re black, or Latino or Asian, it doesn’t pick who it wants to make sick.…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Where You’re Out of Work Makes All the Difference in the World “When life goes back to normal, I’m going to be at the lowest rung of the ladder,” Bowen said. “I’m not going to have anything, and I’m going to be so behind on all my bills. It’s just going to be an avalanche.”…
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Anti-Corbyn Labour officials worked to lose general election to oust leader, leaked dossier finds One exchange shows a senior official described another from the left of the party as “pube head”. In another, months later, they called her a “smelly cow” and comment that she “had the exact same clothes on yesterday”. #LabourParty #Elections #UK #Corbyn Americans…
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Dismissed U.S. carrier captain gets hero’s ovation from crew He called for “decisive action”: removing more than 4,000 sailors from the ship and isolating them, and wrote that unless the Navy acted immediately it would be failing to properly safeguard “our most trusted asset – our sailors.” #GoNavy #COVID19 #Sailors #TrumpsAmerica “Shoot them dead”: Philippine President…