Category: Culture
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Rohingya Woman May Soon Become First In India To Attend College
A young Rohingya woman is leading other Rohingya by example toward a better future. Meagan Clark writes.
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Policing the Public Schools: How Schools Are Becoming Even More Like Prisons
Every schoolchild knows that school is a commuted sentence. Kerry McDonald on just how real the metaphor is.
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Building Design Requirements Should Be Reformed, Not Abolished
The solution to poor regulation in Arkansas is unregulation. Bad idea. Daniel Herriges writes.
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Comics Offer Radical Opportunity to Blend Scholarship and Art
In the search for better representation in world histories, historians are discovering the power of comics. Trevor R. Getz writes.
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A Brief History of April Fool’s Day
Mark Taylor-Canfield delivers unto thee a brief history of yon Aprille Foole.
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It’s Not the Park, It’s the GAME: A Kingdome Reminiscence
Dennis Nyback’s oral history of Seattle visits the 19-years-defunct Kingdome
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What Migrants Leave Behind
The constant presence of absence along the trails of migration leaves a trail. Archaeologist Gabriella Soto writes.
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So Close, Yet So Far: Why “The Pill” for Men Isn’t Right Around the Corner
Family planning is an important component in many relationships; this includes preparing for planned pregnancies and navigating ways to prevent unplanned pregnancies. Since prescription-based birth control hit the market, women have mainly been responsible for taking “the pill” and utilizing other methods of pregnancy prevention,…
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Why Are Linguists Afraid to Study Emerging Sign Languages?
Emerging sign languages could reveal how all language evolved – but keeping these fragile languages isolated for research may mean the people who rely on them lose out.
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Watching the Black Body
When you’re black, dissent is treated as extremism by those in power. Malkia Cyril on how tech surveillance plays into the old narrative.
