Netflix’s Pamela, A Love Story overturns stereotypes about victims of intimate partner abuse: Pamela Anderson’s Netflix documentary is worth watching for many reasons, but one of the greatest lessons it has to offer is what a victim-survivor of intimate partner abuse looks like: resilient, resourceful, eternally optimistic and compassionate. Unlike most other victim-survivors, Anderson has …
Red Lady of Paviland: the story of a 33,000 year-old-skeleton – and the calls for it to return to Wales: Human remains dating back more than 30,000 years were found at Paviland cave in Gower. Left: Leighton Collins/Shutterstock; right: Ethan Doyle White CC BY-SA 3.0. When William Buckland from the University of Oxford grabbed his …
From a ‘deranged’ provocateur to IBM’s failed AI superproject: the controversial story of how data has transformed healthcare: US health data pioneer Ernest Codman at work on his national registry of patient outcomes, 1925. Roy Mabrey/Boston Medical Library Just over a decade ago, artificial intelligence (AI) made one of its showier forays into the public’s …
Land is a heated issue in South Africa – the print media are presenting only one side of the story: South Africa’s vast commercial press is dominated by four conglomerates. Moeletsi Mabe/Sunday Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images The land question was at the heart of the South African national liberation struggle. The 1913 Natives Land Act restricted …
Netflix’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover reduces this tale of class conflict to a simple love story: The film's Lady Chatterley and her Mellors have an easier path to love than their literary counterparts. Parisa Taghizadeh/Netflix It is easy to understand the appeal of D. H. Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) for filmmakers. The issues the …
The Wonder: Netflix’s story of 19th century ‘fasting girls’ reminds us starving bodies remain a public spectacle today: Florence Pugh stars in The Wonder. Christopher Barr/Netflix In October, US tabloid the New York Post reported somewhat gleefully that the early 2000s trend for “heroin chic” is back. After a brief period of limited body diversity, …
The story of the purple tomato — and why its success is a win for GM foods: Purple tomatoes have been approved for sale in the US. JIC Photography/ flickr The first genetically modified (GM) food ever made commercially available to the public was a tomato, invented in the US in 1994. Since then, a …
The Lindisfarne Gospels: the story of how a medieval masterpiece was made: A detail of the _incipit_ page with the first words of the Gospel of John: _In principio erat Verbum_, "in the beginning was the Word". The British Library Sometime around the turn of the 8th century, on Lindisfarne, a windswept island off the …
Nigeria at 62: five essential reads on why there isn’t an inspiring story to tell: em_concepts/shutterstock As Nigeria marks its 62nd independence anniversary, many will be checking to see if there is indeed any reason for celebrations. Reasons for pessimism are not hard to find. Major statistics for the economy, security and human development paint …
Keir Starmer needs to tell a bolder story about Britain’s future to convince voters to back him: Leadership in any group, whether it’s a team, an organisation, a community or a country, always requires the skill and insight to tell what Marshall Ganz of Harvard University calls a “story of us”. A story of us …
The story behind Joplin, the open source note-taking app: The story behind Joplin, the open source note-taking app Richard Chambers Mon, 09/26/2022 – 03:00 In this interview, I met up with Laurent Cozic, creator of the note-taking app, Joplin. Joplin was a winner of the 20i rewards, so I wanted to find out what makes …
The untold story of a mid-20th century group of women fighting for equality in marriage — and why it matters today: In 1938, a group of feminist agitators came together in London to tackle what they saw as the most pressing issue of their time: inequality in marriage. For the Married Women’s Association, the right …
Kenya’s Lamu Port was meant to deliver great things. But, as the story of local fishermen shows, it hasn’t: A container ship docks at the Lamu Port in Kenya. Dihoff Mukoto/AFP via Getty Images For nearly two decades, successive Kenyan governments have promoted mega infrastructure projects as a pathway to development. The Lamu Port has …
Check out this South African City image: British Library digitised image from page 65 of “The Story of South Africa … Copiously illustrated with … maps … portraits, sketches, etc. (Vol. 1 by J. C. Ridpath and E. S. Ellis.-Vol. 2 by G. B. Barton, Frank Wilkinson, and others.)” Image by The British Library Image …
The inside story of the CIA v Russia – from cold war conspiracy to ‘black’ propaganda in Ukraine: In the early 1990s, Senator Patrick Moynihan campaigned for the abolition of the CIA. The brilliant campaigner thought the US Department of State should take over its intelligence functions. For him, the age of secrecy was over. …
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Lilian Ngoyi: an heroic South African woman whose story hasn’t been fully told: Detail of a photo of Lilian Ngoyi making a speech in 1960. Azola Daniel/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Despite her key role in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, details about Lilian Ngoyi’s life remain sparse. The short paragraphs on her legacy …
Revealed: untold story of the CIA/Stasi double agent abandoned after 22 years of service: I was naked, tied to a hard chair with handcuffs. Three or four burly fellows in uniform are standing around me, one of them behind me with a truncheon… ‘Sie sind ein Verräter! [You are a traitor!],’ they snap. These are …