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Two years before the #MeToo campaign started a national conversation about sexual harassment in the U.S., Brazilian women took their fight against sexism online with viral hashtags. Since then, this “Women’s Spring” has just continued to grow. Scholars Alvaro Jarrin and Kia Lilly Caldwell examine how black activists in Brazil have organized nationwide to ensure that this feminist resurgence tackles the particular harms facing women of color, from discrimination in health care to the cultural ideal of white beauty standards.
And, hydropower is a key energy generator all over Africa. Today in sub-Saharan Africa it accounts for 20 percent of electricity production and is likely to grow rapidly. That’s why there are plans to build more dams. But, writes researcher Declan Conway, their problematic locations could put the future security of the electricity supply at risk.
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Intersectionality in action: Brazilian women are organizing across class and race lines to decry inequality in a country that remains deeply ‘machista.’
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Alvaro Jarrin, College of the Holy Cross; Kia Lilly Caldwell, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Before #MeToo, Brazilian women launched #MyFirstHarrassment and marched for racial equality. Today, this feminist resurgence is tackling health care, plastic surgery, violence and more.
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Environment + Energy
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Declan Conway, London School of Economics and Political Science
Large hydropower dams planned for parts of Africa could double its current capacity. But several factors like climate conditions around the dams could put the security of electricity supply at risk.
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Politics + Society
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Melanie Baak, University of South Australia
Recent media reports of South Sudanese 'crime gangs' do nothing to offer young people what they most need: inclusion, acceptance and employment.
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Henry Giroux, McMaster University
Donald Trump's language has disturbing similarities to the words and verbal tactics used by fascists, including his cries of "fake news" and his obsessive exaggerations about his achievements.
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Science + Technology
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Sebastian Deffner, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
A future that continues to have increasingly fast computing depends on quantum physics – but research is showing that there are limits to how fast quantum computers can go.
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Romain Garrouste, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN) – Sorbonne Universités
Bed bugs make us shudder and cringe. So arm yourself with the courage to learn about the biology and successes of Cimex lectularius -- as well as the ways to get rid of it.
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Business + Economy
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Alice de Jonge, Monash University
The Chinese government will use its consolidated power to try to reign in some of the biggest problems facing its economy in 2018.
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Education
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James Njenga, University of the Western Cape
E-learning is both a technological and a social innovation. At its best, it can address problems within a particular social context.
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Arts + Culture
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Caillan Davenport, Macquarie University
If you’ve ever wondered why our 12-month year ends with names that mean the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth months, you can blame the Romans.
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