Older South Africans need better support and basic services – and so do their caregivers

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In South Africa, most long-term care for older people happens at home through the efforts of family members, largely female kin, not through government services. With South Africas population growing older, combined with...

Nuclear energy is a risky investment, but that’s no reason for the UK government to avoid it

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The UK governments investment of around 14 billion in a new nuclear power plant marks a big economic shift for the countrys approach to energy. The Sizewell C plant in Suffolk will be the second of a new generation of...

House tax-and-spending bill and other Trump administration changes could make millions of people lose their health insurance coverage

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President Donald Trump has promised not to cut Medicaid many times over the past decade, including in the tax-and-spending legislative package he has made a top priority in his second administration. But several provisions...

Colorado’s fentanyl criminalization bill won’t solve the opioid epidemic, say the people most affected

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Colorado passed the Fentanyl Accountability and Prevention Bill in May 2022. The legislation made the possession of small amounts of fentanyl a felony, rather than a misdemeanor. Felonies are more likely than misdemeanors...

News of the Air India plane crash is traumatic. Here’s how to make sense of the risk

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On Thursday afternoon local time, an Air India passenger plane bound for London crashed shortly after takeoff from the northwestern Indian city of Ahmedabad. There were reportedly 242 people onboard, including two pilots...

Why anti-trafficking measures alone won’t save Africa’s pangolins

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Nigeria accounts for the largest volume of detected pangolin scales illegally traded from Africa. Between 2010 and 2021, 190,000kg of scales representing nearly 800,000 African pangolins were seized in shipments linked...

Netflix’s Dept Q. suggests that psychological trauma might help a detective investigate – neuroscience backs this up

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Carl Morck is psychologically damaged. Hes socially insufferable. And hes a departmental embarrassment. Yet this broken man becomes an incredibly effective investigator. Welcome to the brilliant paradox of Netflixs Dept....