The Purpose of Street Art: Saving Humanity, One Bee at a Time
What does street art do? Is it protest? Is it a statement? Is it a tool for social change? The very act of street…
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How inequality shapes your experience of a heatwave
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Cambodia: A Forgotten Generation
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Ancient Tattooing in Polynesia: World’s oldest toolkit found in Tonga
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How black slaves were routinely sold as ‘specimens’ to ambitious white doctors
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The World’s Most Delicious Heritage: An Interview with Grandmas Project founder Jonas Pariente
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The Museum Of Broken Relationships
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Dougie Wallace interview: Road Wallah – a requiem to Mumbai’s cab drivers in photos
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How to assess political stability? Follow the bread path
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Surviving climate change means transforming both economics and design
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Gurus, gas attacks and pubic hair: the strange history of Japan’s new religions
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Meet the Many Faces of India: Hugging the Western Coastal Plains
Make your way down India’s coastline of startling juxtapositions; from the frenetic metropolis of Mumbai to the downtempo havens of Goa and Kerala. At…
Climate change in Bangladesh: how rising sea levels are giving rise to poverty and sinking local culture
The effects of climate change have led to a growing sense of outrage in developing nations, many of which have contributed little to the…
Commodifying Banksy
Take a selection of artworks by the most famous illicit artist in the world, add a city that’s passionate about its street art and…
A Controversial History of Cricket in Afghanistan
On March 27th, Afghanistan secured a historic victory over West Indies, defeating them by 6 runs. In qualifying and mixing with giants such as…
The pioneering queer artists who opened Vietnam to gay culture
In an historical decision, Taiwan’s top court has ruled in favour of gay marriage. The May 26 verdict raised the hopes of many LGBT…
Refugee Trails: A European Odyssey – a deeper perspective on the refugee situation
Since 2015, we have been witnessing one of the worst global humanitarian crises of our time – the Syrian Civil war. Millions of innocent…
Is Costa Rica the world’s happiest, greenest country?
Costa Rica was the most environmentally advanced and happiest place on earth last year, followed by Mexico, Colombia, Vanuatu and Vietnam. That was the…
Food security: how drought and rising prices led to conflict in Syria
Aled Jones, Anglia Ruskin University In 2015 the Welsh singer and activist Charlotte Church was widely ridiculed in the right-wing press and on social…
Why you shouldn’t dismiss Jeremy Corbyn as a leader
Words by Tom McGivan Like most people, I’m fairly wary of unsubstantiated claims. Particularly at election time. One I’ve repeatedly noticed over recent…
The artist and the Kurdish revolutionaries
It’s the middle of a war zone, and something unexpected is taking place: a Dutch artist has joined with Kurdish revolutionaries to build their…
The forgotten half-widows of Kashmir’s armed conflict
Among the devastating effects of war is one that is often witnessed yet hard to truly quantify: hundreds of thousands of people go missing…
What does the solar system sound like?
“In space, no one can hear you scream” was the tagline of the 1979 box office film success Alien. And it’s true. Sound waves…
Calling a Cambulance: the Desert’s Answer to Emergency Services
In developed countries, an ambulance can reach the scene of a medical emergency in a matter of minutes, with first world innovations and infrastructure…
Welcome to City Plaza, Athens: a new approach to housing refugees
There are now around 55,000 people stranded in Greece as a result of Europe’s failed response to the so-called migration crisis – and many…
Guernica: Where the wall speaks
The bombing of Guernica (26 April 1937) was an aerial attack on the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. It was…
Five films that will help you understand the modern Arab World
A number of catastrophic events have afflicted the Arab world in recent years. Western news reporting and Hollywood cinema tend to present these crises…
Can animal interactions and wildlife conservation ever be compatible?
Recent controversies including the death of Harambe the gorilla at Cincinnati Zoo in May last year have caused an outpour of anger towards…
Worried Trump’s Presidency will be a disaster? Don’t be. It probably won’t be that bad.
——- Before reading on, I should clarify something. By ‘disaster’, what I am referring to is a ‘major political disaster’ on an international scale….
Why do we deny rape culture?
Ask anyone whether rape is wrong and you will almost always receive the answer of ‘yes, of course’. Why is it then that…