Blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon, off Louisiana, in 2010. The losses produced by polluting companies should cost as ‘negative’ for a country’s growth.
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Lorenzo Fioramonti, University of Pretoria
A new accounting system that goes beyond the capitalist understanding of value is bubbling under and could topple capitalism itself.
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Health + Medicine
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Dixon Chibanda, University of Zimbabwe
Initiatives to help women suffering postnatal depression are needed and should be encouraged and integrated as part of routine antenatal and postnatal care.
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Arts + Culture
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Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Johns Hopkins University
There is a thriving counter-current of transnational African literary life that confounds rather than caters to an international taste for "digestible" fiction.
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Science + Technology
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Alan G Morris, University of Cape Town
A rush of ancient DNA projects in Africa has presented the curators of archaeological skeletons with ethical issues because research requires the destruction of human bone.
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Sergey V. Popov, Cardiff University
His work on behavioural economics helps us better understand why people make bad financial decisions.
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Gemma Briggs, The Open University; Graham Hole, University of Sussex
Beware unicycling clowns ...
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Katie Edwards, University of Sheffield; Meredith J C Warren, University of Sheffield
We still live in a violent world – and the Bible can help children understand it.
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Lewis Borck, Leiden University; D. Shane Miller, Mississippi State University
Anti-immigrant policies ignore that American ideals like liberty, equality and the pursuit of happiness can be traced back to the indigenous pioneers who once moved freely across North America.
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