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Politics of Identity, Not Identity Politics
Progress -- we’ve seen it. Or, we had been seeing it: steps in the right direction toward equality. With…
A Review of 2018 BIXI Usage in Montreal
November 15 saw the end of Bixi Season in Montreal. First launched in 2009, the popular bike-sharing system is one…
A Closer Look at the Data: Testicular Cancer
Movember is an annual event that takes place during November to raise awareness and support for issues related to…
America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in Danger
In her recent article for New York Times Magazine, writer Linda Villarosa details many disturbing revelations about…
The Brain Drain, the Civil War, and Angola’s…
The Angolan Civil War began as a proxy war between the United States and the Soviet Union. After successfully…
Big Soda and Soda Taxation: A Brief History
If anecdotal evidence means anything in the discussion of soda taxation, then one needn't look any further than the…
Prevention Over Protection: A Liberal Approach to HIV…
On December 1st, 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood on Parliament Hill and raised a red and white flag in…
The Global Burden of Disease: Use and Abuse of Health…
Three decades ago, the introduction of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) into the human population sparked one…
Kangaroo Mother Care: A Case Study on KMC’s…
Editor’s Note: This article was written by Courtney Fang, Zoë Goldstein, Morgan Kennedy, Carla Achcar, Bidjinie…
The Hidden Economics Behind Antibiotic Resistance
Late last year, a woman in Nevada died of an infection inflicted by a pan-resistance bacterium. The bacteria was…
How the World Bank is Aggressively Targeting Childhood…
Stunting (also referred to as stunted growth or nutritional stunting) is the limited growth of human development in…
A Non-Political Solution to Global Healthcare
This article is the third of Kara Anderson's ongoing series on contemporary artificial intelligence and its…