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Clara Steitz

No Clarity Over Chadian Opposition Member’s Death

On February 28, 2024, a key Chadian opposition politician, Yaya Dillo, was killed during an assault carried out by state security forces on his party’s headquarters in Chad’s capital, N’Djamena. A year on, authorities have yet to clarify the circumstances surrounding his death.

The U.S. resumes hundreds of millions in security aid to Taiwan, annoying China

A man stands in front of Taiwanese navy ships anchored at the harbor in Keelung, near Taipei in northern Taiwan, on Dec. 11, 2024. I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images hide caption The U.S.

How the CCP infiltrates American media and academia

The Chinese Communist Party (“CCP”) is using disinformation and lawfare to target Americans, particularly Falun Dafa practitioners, as part of a whole-of-government strategy. Leaked communications and whistle-blowers have revealed the CCP’s plans.

The FDA Bans Popular Food Coloring Red Dye No. 3

Walking down the various grocery aisles, you've undoubtedly noticed bright red candies, colorful sodas and even pink-tinted medicines on store shelves for years. Many of these products owe their eye-catching color to a substance called Red Dye No.

The damage education does

What is the purpose of education? Is it to educate you so that you become a more thoughtful, more creative or wiser person? Is it to teach you how to think for yourself? No. It’s to prepare you for work and to train you to become obedient to what

Escaping the Trap of ‘Realism’ and ‘Utopianism’: Towards Programmatic Synthesis

[T]he strongest and most efficient of megamachines can be overthrown[…] The collapse of the Pyramid Age proved that the megamachine exists on a basis of human beliefs, which may crumble, of human decisions, which may prove fallible, and human consent, which, when the magic becomes discredited, may be withheld.

Rethinking Rank and Privilege in Human Societies

This article was produced by Human Bridges. For two centuries, archaeologists, historians, and social scientists studied human societies in search of the origins of hierarchy—a layered structure where power and privilege are concentrated in the top layer. Realizing that this model failed to account for the real-life complexity of

As climate change supercharges disease, Trump pulls US from World Health Organization

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Canada: ‘Woke’ ideology is on its way out

In Canada, several major corporations, including Walmart, Starbucks and Ford Motor Company, have moved away from diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) practices in 2024. Walmart announced sweeping changes to its DEI policies, including erasing DEI-related terminology, ending DEI training programmes and shifting away from prioritising under-represented groups in hiring practices.

If the Gene Technology Bill is passed, how many additional doctors will New Zealand need?

Currently, there are 19,350 doctors in New Zealand; that’s one for every 264 people.

The LA Fires and the Big Bang

What’s happening right now in Los Angeles is almost too painful to write about.

Coley’s Toxins

Coley’s Toxins, also known as Coley’s vaccine or Coley’s fluid, are a mixture of toxins filtered from killed bacteria of species Streptococcus pyogenes and Serratia marcescens. Developed by William Coley, a surgical oncologist in the late 19th century, these toxins were used as a treatment for cancer.

Review: In the Drift by Michael Swanwick

In the Drift By Michael Swanwick Original edition: Ace Science Fiction Books, Feb. 1985, 184 pp. Reissued in various print and ebook editions. Michael Swanwick’s 1985 novel In the Drift takes place in an alternate reality in which the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident—rather than remaining a