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Could AI create a new form of inequality in South Africa?
If AI is not designed properly, inequalities can reappear in new, digital forms.
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Kenyans living in towns are farmers too: what this means for rural landscapes
The increasing control of rural agricultural land by urban residents has implications for rural people and spaces.
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Supporting women in early labour is important for safe maternity care
The Nottingham maternity review shows why women need better assessment and support at the very start of labour.
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Does traffic drive street crime? Our study investigated
Motor traffic makes residents feel less safe from vandalism, burglary and violence.
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Is the Pope’s AI encyclical a warning on Tech Messianism?
We are living in a world backed by technology that seems to have a spiritual project of its own. Are the fears of the Pope’s AI-critical encyclical founded?
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‘This was something new’: what people in Greenland told us about learning to live with wildfires
It’s the new reality in an Arctic where the climate is changing fast.
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The condition that causes people to get lost in their own home
The condition is more than merely being bad with directions.
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Colombia’s new president ‘El Tigre’ promises an iron fist – but that may not solve the violence he has inherited
Dismantling the 2016 peace agreement and introducing a military clampdown is not the answer to rising levels of violence.
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Medical museums often display infant remains – how they were acquired was frequently harrowing and involved eugenic thinking
The inequality, stigma and eugenic thinking that led to their acquisition is often obscured or erased.
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New obesity figures highlight the income divide
New data shows obesity rising fastest among the young and the poor, while it’s mainly the better off who are seeing the benefit of weight-loss drugs.
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America at 250: the Britons who supported the War of Independence
America’s struggle for independence from Britain was supported by some highly influential thinkers in 18th-century Britain.
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Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy – an uncompromising memoir told through a difficult parent-child relationship
An uncompromising look at her own life through her complicated relationship with her mother.