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Spanish police have begun to piece together a comprehensive picture of the young men responsible for last week’s terror attacks in Spain which killed 14 people and left 100 injured. It’s been 13 years since Spain was last hit by a terrorist attack. In 2004 nearly 200 died in railway bombings in Madrid. Karl McLaughlin explains why country’s history makes it particularly vulnerable to jihadist terrorism.
Plus, comparing ISIS recruits to gang members, Sierra Leone grieves after last week’s devastating mudslides, curbing climate change, and more, today from The Conversation Global.
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A memorial on Las Ramblas following the attack.
EPA/Quique Garcia
Karl McLaughlin, Manchester Metropolitan University
A toxic combination of history and social tension makes Spain fertile ground for extremist recruitment.
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Arts + Culture
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Londa Schiebinger, Stanford University
Slaves were involved in medical experimentation in the 1700s – both as sources of knowledge and as nonconsenting participants.
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Adil Najam, Boston University
The partition of India led to a genocide that was unprecedented in scale. How far was one man, Lord Mountbatten, who hurriedly drew the new borders, responsible?
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Environment + Energy
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Kathryn Adamson, Manchester Metropolitan University
The ice sheet is melting and permafrost is thawing. What's happening in Greenland will speed up climate change across the world.
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Olumuyiwa Adegun, Federal University of Technology, Akure; Tobi Eniolu Morakinyo, Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Politics + Society
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James L. Gelvin, University of California, Los Angeles
With terrorists striking again in Spain and in Finland, one cannot help but ask -- again -- why people want to follow the Islamic State. Some new theories are emerging.
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Russell Cobb, University of Alberta
A war of words among Cuba, Venezuela and the United States sounds a lot like a Cold War revival. A closer look at the conflict reveals a new generation of contradictions.
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David Winter, University of Hertfordshire
Mass graves are being dug for hundreds of those killed in a nation once more gripped by grief.
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Science + Technology
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Alice H. Eagly, Northwestern University
Here's what research actually says about differences between males and females – and the question of what's innate and what's acquired.
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