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Women #metoo - online and in real life - trends are growing worldwide. While there is no one solution to ending harassment in all its different forms, Virginia García Beaudoux explains why it would be good to start with the media given that TV commercials continue to use outmoded gender roles that relegate women to the home.
In Mali, the government has set its hopes on tackling endemic poverty in the country by exploring vast oil and gas reserves in the Taoudeni Basin. But Julie Snorek warns that the strategy might backfire given the security situation in the country. Meanwhile efforts to rid the continent of landmines has just been given a boost with the finding that African elephants have joined the list of animals and insects – like dogs, large rats and bees – that are good at sniffing them out. Ashadee Kay Miller explains the research.
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Advertising continues to portray women as charming keepers of the home, making it harder to succeed at work.
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Virginia García Beaudoux, University of Buenos Aires
TV commercials continue to traffic in outmoded gender roles, relegating women to the home. A media scholar explains how these stereotypical portrayals can fuel workplace harassment by powerful men.
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Business + Economy
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Larisa Yarovaya, Anglia Ruskin University
Islamic markets were not rocked by the 2007-08 financial as much as conventional markets.
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Environment + Energy
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Julie Snorek, Autonomous University of Barcelona
The ‘war on terror' in Mali is building alongside a growing number of multinationals hoping to extract the oil and gas reserves of the Taoudeni basin, and a strong foreign military presence.
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William Moomaw, Tufts University; Asaf Tzachor, UCL
Marine microalgae are full of nutrients and can be raised indoors using much less land and water than meat or even plants. Could algae-based foods replace meat, eggs and milk on our tables?
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Ashadee Kay Miller, University of the Witwatersrand
Elephants have the highest count of olfactory receptor genes of any species tested to date. This suggests that they may be the best smellers in the animal kingdom.
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Health + Medicine
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Ronald Labonte, University of Ottawa
As government representatives meet at the WHO global conference on noncommunicable diseases in Uruguay this week, their focus should be on reducing the health impacts of trade deals.
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Politics + Society
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Jinghan Zeng, Royal Holloway
Still smarting from centuries of ancient humiliation, China is ready to rise to global supremacy.
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Anwar Mhajne, University of Cincinnati ; Crystal M Whetstone, University of Cincinnati
Activists often face intransigent regimes and ruthless warlords. But women can use traditional insights into femininity and motherhood for political mobilisation and resistance.
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Science + Technology
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Robert Deng, Singapore Management University
Cloud computing is on the rise, but so are questions about its security. This is why we need systems where the data itself enforces security, not just the cloud system within which it is contained.
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