by Savannah Jenkins | 2 Apr 2020 | Discovery, Eyewitness, Personal Reflections, Podcasts
COVID-19 has forced billions of people into lockdown. Two survivors of earlier crises tell how solidarity and patience are antidotes to fear. Patients receive blood transfusions in Karachi, Pakistan, 1 April 2020. A lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic has created...
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by Sarah Edmonds | 12 Sep 2019 | Climate change, Discovery, Environment, Eyewitness, Personal Reflections
(French countryside viewed from a TGV fast train. Video and photos by Sarah Edmonds) By Sarah Edmonds I am suffering an acute case of flight-shame. Yes, that’s a thing. The Swedes, with their skill for coining simple terms for complex and timely phenomena, have made...
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by News Decoder | 29 Aug 2019 | Personal Reflections
By Lauren Heuser Google recently published Community Guidelines, an official policy to guide — and effectively moderate — the communications of its roughly 100,000 employees. Internal company policies don’t usually make international headlines. But Google’s did, in...
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by News Decoder | 14 Aug 2019 | Personal Reflections
By Robert Holloway The United States and Russia have scrapped a disarmament treaty that removed thousands of nuclear weapons from Europe. Influential voices led by the head of the United Nations now fear a new arms race. That possibility might be more chilling to...
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by News Decoder | 5 Aug 2019 | Asia, China, Discovery, Identity, Personal Reflections, Youth Voices
By Kaitlyn-Lee Mun It was a Sunday afternoon in early June at Hong Kong’s Kowloon Park. Cicadas buzzed incessantly, delivering a deafening chorus. On this humid day, the air like soup, people gathered to watch a weekly Kung Fu performance. I was in the crowd,...
