The case against pets: is it time to give up our cats and dogs?
weird feelings about pet ownership. Read it.
Delta variant Covid symptoms ‘include headaches, sore throat and runny nose’
Researchers warn that UK’s most widely established variant may be mistaken for milder illness
New Zealand to ban most single-use plastics by 2025
The new bans were an important step, but still missed many of the largest producers of plastic waste in New Zealand, said Assoc Prof Terri-Ann Berry, the director of Environmental…
Poetry sales soar as political millennials search for clarity
Andre Breedt, for Nielsen, said that sales were booming because in times of political upheaval and uncertainty, people turn to poems to make sense of the world: “Poetry is resonating…
Syphilis, sex and fear: How the French disease conquered the world
It got its name in the mid 16th century from a poem by a Renaissance scholar: its eponymous hero Syphilus, a shepherd, enrages the Sun God and is infected as…
A woman’s greatest enemy? A lack of time to herself
If what it takes to create are long stretches of time alone, that’s something women have never had the luxury to expect {read}
Republicans accused of obstructing satellite research into climate change
The Republican majority in the US Congress has been accused of deliberately obstructing research on global warming after it emerged that a critically important technique for investigating sea-ice cover at…
Meet the new hotshots of American film-making
Rees nods, “It’s like my dad would say: ‘You have to work twice as hard to get half as far.’ As a woman, you are presumed incompetent until proven otherwise.…
Children are straitjacketed into gender roles in early adolescence, says study
Global study finds girls are considered vulnerable and protected, while boys are set free to roam and explore, with lifelong consequences patriarchy is bad for everyone …The researchers found that…
Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde review – prophetic and necessary
The black lesbian feminist writer and poet, who died 25 years ago, is better known than ever, her words often quoted in books and on social media {read}