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As data accumulate that, in some places, people of colour are much more likely than white people to become ill and die of COVID-19, more discussions are grasping at factors beyond race to explain why. I’m used to this. When my book on environmental racism came out last year, one…

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Climate change threatens prospects for further progress in cancer prevention and control, increasing exposure to cancer risk factors and impacting access to cancer care, according to a new commentary by scientists from the American Cancer Society and Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. The commentary, appearing in CA:…

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I am trying to help my family find their own special connection to the holy month this year. May 16, 2020 A mosque in Hanover, Germany, set up for social distancingAll photographs by Eman HelalI started my Ramadan prep late this year. Usually, I would have spent the weeks leading…

The 1950s is remembered as an era of ideal homes and perfect housewives. Yet this decade marked the beginning of a momentous social change: the rise of the working wife and mother. Poor women had always laboured when they needed to earn a crust for their families, often through casual…

You may have seen an image on social media about meat availability suggesting contacting local farmers to buy a steer. In some cases, that's just not possible. JEFFERSON COUNTY, Tenn. — You may have seen an image on social media about meat availability suggesting contacting local farmers to buy a…

As the Coronavirus pandemic continues to sweep across the globe, many Americans confined at home have enthusiastically turned bread-baking into the de facto new hobby of social isolation. To many contemporary commentators, the rush on flour is a sign of the need for structure and comfort in these increasingly unstructured…

Beyond Meat stock and Bitcoin are trading in an almost identical pattern. Both BYND and BTC/USD have been accused of being bubbles, in the past and neither will like the comparison with the other. Wall Street doesn’t seem to care. Beyond Meat (NASDAQ: BYND) and Bitcoin (BTC/USD) have both enjoyed…

Research of the Week We forage for information in our minds the way we foraged for food as hunter-gatherers. Full lockdowns don’t seem to have had much effect in Western Europe. Deep genetic history of the Andes. Factors most associated with death from COVID-19 in the UK: maleness, old age,…