Bitter Honey by Lola Akinmade Åkerström explores how mothers carry their histories into their daughters’ lives

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In Bitter Honey, novelist Lola Akinmade kerstrm explores the emotional undercurrents of motherhood and daughterhood. The novel reflects on how the past bears down on the present. How mothers carry their histories into...

Mrs Dalloway at 100: Virginia Woolf’s timeless novel is a work of pandemic fiction

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Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway, set on a June day in 1923, is unusual in that its two protagonists society hostess Clarissa Dalloway and shell-shocked veteran Septimus Smith never meet. Published 100 years ago on May 14...

How 7,000 steps a day could help reduce your risk of cancer

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Physical inactivity costs the UK an estimated 7.4 billion each year but more importantly, it costs lives. In todays increasingly sedentary world, sitting too much is raising the risk of many serious diseases, including...

From boomers to Gen Z: How to solve the public sector succession crisis

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Public servants are the backbone of Canadian government. Canadians expect them to act in the best interest of society, to uphold Canadian democratic institutions, to steward public monies and to deliver programs and...

Koyo Kouoh – tribute to a curator who fiercely promoted African art

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The sudden death of the Cameroon-born curator Koyo Kouoh, at the age of 57 and at the height of her career, has shaken the art world. Her passing has left a void in the African arts scene, one which extends far beyond the...

Improving human beings to make them perform better: Why is transhumanism so harmful?

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The goal of transhumanists is to improve human beings so they will perform better. In doing so, they contribute above all else to creating people perfectly suited to capitalism. Its important to step back and take a...

Social platform Stocktwits and other sources of ‘alternative data’ may be hurting financial analysts’ long-term forecasts

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Since the beginning of the century, the number of satellites orbiting Earth has increased more than 800%, from less than 1,000 to more than 9,000. This profusion has had a number of strange and disturbing repercussions....