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Menstruation is a global health problem – and we need to talk about it

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imageBreak the taboo.SuSanA Secretariat/Flickr, CC BY

Donald Trump did the girls and women living in developing world a great favor this week. He got menstruation – the taboo of all taboo words in polite society – onto the front page of the Sunday New York Times. That doesn’t happen every day. In fact,...

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US shouldn't fret over cheaper yuan: China's growing middle class will keep buying 'Made in America'

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imageA change in the scales isn't likely to put a major dent in the growth in US exports to China.Yuan dollar via www.shutterstock.com

News that the People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank, changed its formula for calculating the reference rate of the yuan (RMB) prompted the currency to fall to a four-year...

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Better policies are needed to support local adoptions for children orphaned by Ebola

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imageBetter policies could do a lot to help children orphaned by Ebola.UNICEF Guinea, CC BY-NC

While the worst of the Ebola epidemic has passed, its impact is far from over for the orphans left behind. In Sierra Leone alone, a country of just over six million people, the Ebola epidemic has orphaned more than 12,000 children who...

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Compton commodified: NWA was always a blend of fiction and reality

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imageThe biopic Straight Outta Compton tells the story of rise and fall of Los Angeles rap group NWA.Automotive Rhythms/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

Last week, Dr Dre released Compton: The Soundtrack – his first album in 16 years – with cover art that features the iconic Hollywood sign transformed to read C-O-M-P-T-O-N.

The...

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Big data algorithms can discriminate, and it's not clear what to do about it

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imageIt's all just data – how can it be prejudiced?Trey Guinn, CC BY-NC-ND

“This program had absolutely nothing to do with race…but multi-variable equations.”

That’s what Brett Goldstein, a former policeman for the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and current Urban Science Fellow at the University of...

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Your brief to the Paris UN climate talks: how we got here and what to watch for

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imageBonn in June: just a few steps away from the big show in Paris later this year. unfccc/flickr, CC BY-SA

As the preparations for the global climate change conference in Paris in December heat up in parallel with the planet, negotiators in the United Nations climate talks recent released a proposed skeleton agreement. The...

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Police should put away the military gear and build connections with young people

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imageAmarion Allen, 11, stands in front of police in Ferguson, Missouri on Aug. 9, 2015. Rick Wilking/Reuters

The ongoing protests in Ferguson one year after the shooting of Michael Brown highlight the elevated risks that African Americans face when interacting with police in the US.

While the protests bring awareness to the...

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