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, by CHATTERGIE Paroma
Fierce debates about visual depictions of the sacred have existed for centuries. An art historian explains the controversies in the Byzantine Empire over images of Christ.
An adjunct lecturer at Hamline University recently lost her job for showing an image of Prophet Muhammad in an art history (...)
, by WOODRUFF Matthew
The new bivalent boosters against COVID-19 have failed to halt omicron infections. However, new technologies are being developed that pave a way forward.
By almost any measure, the vaccination campaign against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been a global success.
As of (...)
, by FARKAS Kata, JONES Davey
Nearly all the wastewater samples from aircraft arriving in the UK showed evidence of COVID-infected passengers on board.
Small traces of many pathogens, such as viruses we may be infected with, are excreted when we go to the toilet. Ultimately, these agents find their way to municipal (...)
, by BONHOMME Marc, PRICE Susan
Green Left’s Susan Price spoke to Canadian ecosocialist Marc Bonhomme about the 2022 United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15), which took place in Montreal from December 7‒19.
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Susan Price: COP15 in Montreal received far less media attention than COP27 in Egypt. Why is (...)
, by GRUBER Christiane
An art historian describes the two historical representations of Prophet Muhammad that led to a controversy at Hamline University.
A painting showing the Prophet Muhammad raising his hands in prayer while standing on the Mountain of Light in Mecca. Siyer-i Nebi (Biography of the Prophet), (...)
, by LI Promise
As the late Samir Amin wrote in 2006, “the challenges with which the construction of a real multipolar world is confronted are more serious than many ‘alterglobalists’ think.” Sixteen years later, Amin’s call for nations to “delink” from the Western-led economic order appears more ignored by state (...)
, by EASTON Victoria
After a year of omicron variants, will we ever see a new variant of concern?
The omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has now been around for more than a year. Before omicron became dominant, there had been a quick succession of named variants of concern – from alpha, (...)
, by VOS Theo, WULF HANSON Sarah
While there are still far more questions than answers about long COVID-19, researchers are beginning to get a clearer picture of the health and economic consequences of the condition.
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
Even mild COVID-19 cases (...)
, by KING Helen
The clitoris is not small at all, it’s just that only 10% of the organ is actually visible... It sometimes seems medical science has been far more interested in the penis than the clitoris.
“What’s the difference between a bar and clitoris? Most men have no trouble finding a bar.” In the world of (...)
, by ESSF, NOVAK Adam, ROUSSET Pierre
The year 2022 was as exceptional as 2021. Geostrategic conflicts have become more complex and deeper. The consequences of the climate-ecological crisis have been particularly devastating. Popular resistances of a rare magnitude have asserted themselves. International attention has been focused (...)
, by BONHOMME Marc
Who would have bet that the COP15 on biodiversity, which ended in Montreal this Monday (December 19), was going to stumble on the question of funding, would have risked nothing. The problem of the final sprint is understood as follows:
“The main objective of the Montreal conference is to reach (...)
, by Associations (ecology, oceans, debt)
A statement from a variety of campaigning organisations about the debates at COP 15 on biodiversity in Montreal from December 7-19 issued during the debates there
Read also : Why the CADTM disputes the “Swapping public debt for climate action" proposal
1. At the UN Biodiversity Conference, or (...)
, by RAMANA M.V.
• On December 13, the US Department of Energy announced that the National Ignition Facility had reached a “milestone”: the achievement of “ignition” in nuclear fusion earlier in the month.
• While the step has been described as a milestone in clean energy, generating electricity commercially or at (...)
, by KELLAWAY Dave
Dave Kellaway reviews the Making Modernism art exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, until the 12th February 2023.
At the start of the 20th century, women were still not allowed to go to official art schools. This exhibition shows how women artists, mostly based in Germany, made significant (...)
, by EISENBERG Marisa, MARTIN Emily Toth
Masks are an easy and low-cost way to reduce the amount of virus entering the air and spreading to others.
The cold and flu season of 2022 has begun with a vengeance. Viruses that have been unusually scarce over the past three years are reappearing at remarkably high levels, sparking a (...)
, by BONHOMME Marc
“At the front of the gathering, Indigenous delegations from Quebec and Western Canada, but also from South America and Africa, led the way. […] The march brought together 3,500 people, according to the Collectif COP15, the CBD Alliance and the Global Youth Biodiversity Network, as well as (...)
, by PAGEL Christina , YATES Christian
There have been enough COVID infections in the UK since March 2020 for every person to have been infected between 1.3 and two times, according to mathematical modelling.
Of course, some people will have had COVID more than twice, and some won’t have had it at all. But COVID is not a “one and (...)
, by BONHOMME Marc
After China withdrew last summer due to covid, COP15 on biodiversity was transferred to Montreal, where its permanent secretariat is located. It will be held from December 7 to 19. This COP is much less publicized than the one on climate, although the current catastrophe it is supposed to (...)
, by THORNETT Alan
Alan Thornett offers his thoughts on a troubling end to COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh.
COP27, the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, held last month in Sharm El-Sheikh to confront the planetary emergency caused by climate change, failed spectacularly in (...)
, by GRIFFIN Stephen, WILLIAMS Simon Nicholas
Almost three years into the pandemic, myths and misinformation remain widespread. Here we, a virologist and a public health researcher, debunk some common misconceptions about COVID.
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Myth 1: The virus is becoming milder
There’s a prevailing myth in the omicron era that (...)
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