The national parliamentary election in India is about half over – but how do the ballots cast by 600 million people or more get counted? Election integrity scholar Poorvi Vora sets out the processes and technologies involved in keeping the world’s largest democracy answerable to its people.
Today is International Workers’ Day, also known as Labour Day. Celebrated in about 80 countries, the point is to celebrate gains made by workers and the labour movement, and to put the spotlight on shortcomings. For example, in Tanzania many workers don’t use protective gear to guard against potential hearing loss. Israel Paul Nyarubeli explains.
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A line outside a polling place in Guwahati, India, April 23, 2019.
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Poorvi Vora, George Washington University
Explaining the equipment and the process by which hundreds of millions of ballots are collected and counted in India.
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Manufacturing sites are high noise working areas.
Israel Paul Nyarubeli
Israel Paul Nyarubeli, University of Bergen
Measures to control or reduce workplace noise exposure are critical to reducing hearing loss in workers.
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Health + medicine
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Faith Osier, Wellcome Trust
Given the high burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, a partially effective vaccine is considered better than none.
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Katharina Busl, University of Florida
A recent study on the brains of pigs suggested that some activity could be restored even after the porkers had been dead for four hours. A neuroscientist who specializes in brain death explains.
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Energy + Environment
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Vu Hoai Nam Dang, University of Copenhagen; Martin Reinhardt Nielsen, University of Copenhagen
Our findings suggest that the demand for rhino horn is unlikely to fall because people's beliefs are firmly entrenched.
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Gervase Phillips, Manchester Metropolitan University
Russia isn't the only nation suspected of training marine mammals for military use – the US, UK, and Ukraine have all done so in the past.
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En français
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Michael J. Socolow, University of Maine
Malgré l’obsession de la presse américaine pour l’« empire » Fox News, l’idée que la chaîne d’information exerce un pouvoir politique sans précédent aux États-Unis est excessive.
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Marc Lazar, Sciences Po – USPC
La puissance des populistes provient de leur capacité à imposer leurs thématiques, leur temporalité de l’urgence, la simplification de leurs argumentaires et leur mode d’agir.
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