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March 24, 2020
‘The Saviour of the Mothers’ in times of Covid-19: A Brief History of Hand-Washing
Guest post by Vanita Suneja of WaterAid Covid-19 is currently occupying our collective mind space. Apart from avoiding mass gatherings, the foremost message given through public media and health advisories across the world is on hand hygiene. We are being been advised to clean our hands regularly and thoroughly with soap and water or with […]
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March 23, 2020
Links I Liked, Covid Edition
CAD: Corona Attention Deficit. Is it a thing? Certainly feels like it – my aim this week is to stop endlessly browsing social media and take advantage of lockdown to get stuck into some serious reading. In the meantime, here are some of the fruits of my twitchy social media-hopping…… Coronaviral: the best memes, tweets […]
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March 21, 2020
March 20, 2020
COVID-19 and the Global Education Emergency
By Prachi Srivastava, Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario Nous sommes en guerre. ‘We are at war’—President Macron, 16 March 2020. With global attention rightfully focused on immediate health impacts, the fact that COVID-19 has brought about an unprecedented immediate global education emergency of unimaginable magnitude, is now catching attention. On 4 March 2020, UNESCO […]
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March 19, 2020
What Might Africa Teach the World? Covid-19 and Ebola Virus Disease Compared
This is an edited-down version of a post by Paul Richards that first appeared yesterday on African Arguments, launching its promising new ‘Debating Ideas’ series. Covid-19 is a flu-like illness (symptoms include fever, cough, and breathing problems) caused by a corona virus (SARS CoV-2). Like Ebola, the virus causing Covid-19 circulates within populations of bats […]
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March 18, 2020
Why Abortion is becoming more available and safer around the world
If you were to buy just one issue of The Economist a year, the edition just before International Women’s Day is usually a good bet. Even though it seldom mentions IWD directly, the issue usually sneaks in some fascinating gender-based pieces (eg this 2017 article on gender budgeting). This year it ran pieces on femicide […]
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March 17, 2020
Highly Topical Book Review: Plagues and the Paradox of Progress, by Thomas Bollyky
If you want to step back and think more broadly about Coronavirus, the Universe and Everything, you could do worse than start with Plagues and the Paradox of Progress, by Thomas Bollyky, which combined a ‘germ’s eye view’ of human history with some powerful reflections on the challenges that face us over the coming decades. […]
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March 16, 2020
Links I Liked
Only one topic really, isn’t there? Anne Marie Darling turns graphs (for geeks) into cats (for everyone, except dog lovers, and they don’t count). She’s a PhD epidemiologist, btw. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Health are offering a free on-line course (MOOC) on Covid 19 – they are world leaders. Starts week of March […]
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March 14, 2020
March 11, 2020
Singapore: the politics of taking sand to make land
Madhumitha Ardhanari is a 2019-20 Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity at the International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics. She has worked as a sustainability strategist and futures researcher at Forum for the Future, and has five years of experience coaching businesses and organisations to adapt to long-term sustainability challenges. Until six months […]
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