Science
Tired of forgetting? Sleep on it.
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A Washington University St. Louis study on memory revealed that “sleeping on it” is, in fact, the most productive plan of action.
Culture
Tanzania proposes highway in the Serengeti
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Conservationist groups say the proposed highway will decimate migrating wildebeest herds.
Culture
Bundanoon: a new verb—and green movement—from Oz
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“Bundanoon” is a new green verb referencing an Australian town that prohibited bottled drinking water in 2009.
Democracy
‘Morality police’ are watching your every move on Arabian Peninsula
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New Kuwait all-women morality police will enforce laws against LGBTS, transvestites and the “flirtatious.” In Saudi Arabia, women are fighting back.
Democracy
Bridging nations no longer a figurative task
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Though attempts to build symbolic bridges between Armenia and Turkey have effectively ceased, plans to reconstruct a literal one are underway.
Democracy
Fired for not speaking English
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Three Filipino nurses at a Baltimore hospital have filed a formal complaint with the with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging they were fired for violating their employer’s English-only rule.
Culture
The retrofitting of suburbia
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“We tend to think that downtowns should be dynamic, and we expect that. But we seem to have an expectation that the suburbs should somehow remain frozen in whatever adolescent form they were first given birth to. It’s time to let them grow up.”
Democracy
Bhopal gas victims still searching for justice after 25 years
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Activists cite a double standard in the U.S. response to Gulf Oil Spill versus the U.S. response to Union Carbide’s Bhopal Disaster, which killed up up 23,000 people.
Culture
Bol’s fatal skin disease baffling, excrutiating
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Former NBA star Manute Bol, the 7-foot-7 Sudanese tribesman who died at 47 on June 19, succumbed to kidney failure and a baffling, deadly skin disease called Stevens-Johnson syndrome.
Democracy & Civics
Slang constitution attempts to popularize Kenyan law
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In an effort to familiarize young voters with Kenya’s draft constitution, a website has translated the document into the slang language Sheng.