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Each morning I wake to more devastating news from India, where I grew up and spent my early career as a health reporter. As the second wave of COVID-19 surged, India’s weak health infrastructure crumbled – leaving some people waiting outside overcrowded hospitals, gasping for oxygen and pleading for a bed. In my daily calls, I hear more names of friends, relations and familiar people who have died. Bodies line up outside crematoriums and cemeteries, with no place to accommodate them.
Texas State University’s Natasha Mikles, who studies how the dead are prepared for their final journey in Asian societies, writes how this “unprecedented cultural cataclysm” has forced people in India to change some age-old death rituals.
Also today:
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Kalpana Jain
Senior Religion + Ethics Editor
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Mass cremations in the city of Bengaluru, India, due to the large number of COVID-19 deaths.
Abhishek Chinnappa/Getty Images)
Natasha Mikles, Texas State University
As cremation grounds struggle to keep up with the long line of people dying from COVID-19, age-old customs are being pushed aside.
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Health
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Mousumi Som, Oklahoma State University
The CDC first paused, then unpaused, the administration of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine due to concerns about blood clots. But what are those clots, and how do they form?
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Travers, Simon Fraser University
Puberty-suppression therapy gives trans teens the gift of time and the ability to attain a more desirable appearance.
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Environment + Energy
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Gabriel Filippelli, IUPUI
President Biden has proposed spending $45 billion to replace every lead water pipe and service line in the nation. A public health expert explains why he sees this as a worthwhile investment.
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Scott Denning, Colorado State University
HFCs keep refrigerators cool, but when these short-lived climate pollutants leak, they warm the planet. The US EPA has a plan to phase them out, but what will replace them?
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Politics + Society
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Ronnie R. Gipson Jr., University of Memphis
Police officers who kill, injure or violate the rights of citizens are often not held accountable, even in civil court – because in most cases, they can't be sued for official acts.
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Education
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Narmada Paul, University of Kentucky
While writing can be a challenge, so can finding the motivation to revise one's work. A motivation specialist explains how to overcome the reluctance to take the first draft to the next level.
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From our International Editions
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Vageesh Jain, UCL
The deep-rooted issues at the heart of the current crisis.
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Mélissa Berthet, École normale supérieure (ENS) – PSL; Léo Migotti, École normale supérieure (ENS) – PSL
A wealth of online videos show dogs that, with the help of a keyboard, seem to be able to communicate with their masters. But does it really mean that dogs can "talk"?
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Charles Helm, Nelson Mandela University
It appears that the South African Cape south coast's dunes and beaches formed a vast canvas of sand on which our ancestors could leave their mark.
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