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An Education Exoskeleton

An Education

This is how it starts. My brother’s school asks me to be a guest teacher for their Day of Mauritian Literature. His lycée is part of the French system: private, proud, with only three or four such schools across the island. They are the institutions of choice for wealthy Mauritian…
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June 22, 2020
Toppling of statues in West prompts reflection in Russia, Ukraine over Soviet monuments Ukraine

Toppling of statues in West prompts reflection in Russia, Ukraine over Soviet monuments

By Maria Vasilyeva and Margaryta ChornokondratenkoMOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) - The targeting of colonial-era monuments in some Western nations has prompted activists in Russia and Ukraine to reflect on how their own countries dealt with Soviet-era statues and, in some cases, to ask whether it was good enough.Protesters have toppled or vandalised…
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June 22, 2020
Big Tech Is Using the Pandemic to Push Dangerous New Forms of Surveillance Singapore

Big Tech Is Using the Pandemic to Push Dangerous New Forms of Surveillance

For more than two decades, the ankle shackle has remained the standard electronic monitoring (EM) device. While cellphones, tablets, smartwatches and laptop computers evolved, the black plastic band remained — bulging out under socks and scraping the skin off criminalized legs. Even at this stage of the Fourth Industrial Revolution,…
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June 22, 2020
The Virtuous Side of Viruses Antibiotics

The Virtuous Side of Viruses

As drug-resistant superbugs spread, researchers are turning to microbes that kill bacteria Credit: Fatinha Ramos This year the world awakened to the fact that the most powerful and sophisticated species on earth is tragically vulnerable to the tiniest and most basic of creatures. Infectious disease specialists have been warning about…
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June 22, 2020
French citizens’ council on the environment proposes making ‘ecocide’ illegal Yellow Vests

French citizens’ council on the environment proposes making ‘ecocide’ illegal

After nine months of deliberations, a citizens’ council set up by French President Emmanuel Macron to explore measures for cutting carbon emissions urged the French leader on Sunday to hold referendums on adding environmental protection to the Constitution and making the destruction of nature a crime. The Citizens’ Convention on Climate (CCC), made up…
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June 22, 2020