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WHO Is Fighting False COVID Info On Social Media. How's That Going?
Open up any social media app on your phone and you'll likely see links to COVID-19 information from trustworthy sources.Pinned to the top of Instagram's search function, the handles of the U.S. Centers...
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The Pandemic Pushed This Farmer Into Deep Poverty. Then Something Amazing...
The pandemic has been tough for Eric Dossekpli. The 49-year-old farmer from Anfoin Avele, a town in the west African country of Togo, had trouble selling his peanuts, black-eyed peas, maize and cassava...
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What A 30,000-Person Survey Reveals About Day-To-Day Life In The Pandemic
Everybody knows that the pandemic has had a chilling impact on people's daily lives.But how bad is it? And in particular, how are people faring in countries that aren't as well-off as, say, the United...
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'Why Is A Red Stain A Disaster?' Tips On Fighting Period Stigma (Plus A Zine!)
It's been a couple of years, but I can't get this viral tweet out of my mind. It was from 2019, and it asked: "Women, what is the dumbest thing a man ever said to you about ... menstruation, etc.?"I...
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Ghana Greets Historic Vaccine Delivery With A Dose Of Skepticism
In the middle of a pandemic, Mavis Owureku-Asare is optimistic.The reason? On February 24, her homeland, Ghana, became the first low-resource country to receive free COVID-19 vaccines through COVAX."I...
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Coronavirus World Map: We've Now Passed The 100 Million Mark For Infections
This page is updated regularly. In late January 2020 only a few dozen COVID-19 infections had been identified outside of China. Now the virus has spread to every corner of the globe. More than 100...
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Why This World Food Prize Winner Wants You To Reconsider Anchovies
If you had to choose between eating a nice, tender fillet of salmon or ... umm, anchovies ... which would you choose?You'd probably choose the salmon, right?But Shakuntala Thilsted, the winner of this...
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These Teens Don't Want To Be The U.N.'s Token Youth Activists
Yande Banda, 17, and Selin Ozunaldim, 18, don't want to be the world's token youth activists.But that's how they felt at the Generation Equality Forum in Paris last week.The three-day in-person and...
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Two 14-Year-Olds Grill An Author About The Future Of Humanity
What kind of world will Gen Z live in 20 years from now?That's one of the questions that Charles Kenny aims to answer in a new book targeted to 12-15 year olds in Your World, Better: Global Progress...
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The Pandemic Changed The World Of 'Voluntourism.' Some Folks Like The New Way...
Last summer, Becca Morrison, 21, was all set to volunteer at a community arts nonprofit in Zomba, Malawi. She'd work with the marketing team as a copywriter and social media manager. Then the pandemic...
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'High On The Hog' Chefs Bring Bold New Flavors To Benin's Cuisine
When Sedjro Ahouansou was a kid growing up in the West African country of Benin, he loved eating a traditional dish called piron, a starchy accompaniment made of cassava flour that's served with meat...
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A Retiring Aid Worker Reflects On How To Repair The World — Without Wearing A...
Joel Charny has been a humanitarian aid worker for 40 years — but one of the first valuable lessons he learned about the job was as a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1970s.At 21, he was assigned to work...
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Why Peter Singer — The 'Drowning Child' Ethicist — Is Giving Away His $1...
Say you're walking past a shallow pond and see a child drowning. Would you try to rescue the child? That's the famous "drowning child" scenario by Peter Singer, the Australian philosopher, presented in...
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New USAID director aims to shake up 60-year-old aid agency. Here's her 'new...
Sixty years ago this week, President John F. Kennedy established the United States Agency for International Development.It's one of the largest foreign aid agencies in the world. With a budget of tens...
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Looking for a laugh? Here are some of NPR's favorite funny books of 2021
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Our 11 most-read global pandemic stories of 2021
For the second year in a row, the global pandemic has dominated our blog — and our readers' attention. Our top COVID stories reveal the ever-changing nature of the crisis. In February, readers were...
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The riddle of Japan's dramatic drop in COVID numbers
In mid-August, not long after the Tokyo Olympics had wrapped up, the situation in Japan looked grim to Dr. Hideaki Oka, an infectious disease expert at the Saitama Medical University Hospital outside...
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Editors' pick: 11 hidden gems on our global health blog in 2021
Some stories on our blog Goats and Soda find an audience. Sometimes they don't. And when that happens, we editors get really bummed out!That's why we're putting the spotlight on stories from 2021 that...
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How to raise kind kids, a booze ban, BTS at U.N.: Our top non-pandemic global...
Our top stories on the Goats and Soda blog in 2021 were mostly about the pandemic. But that's not the only topic that made readers click.Even as the world worries about COVID-19, people made time for...
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Flood survivors, former sex slaves, fantastic masks: Top global photo stories...
This year, Goats and Soda published a number of photo essays from photographers and artists from around the globe. One story gives a human face to the problem we've all heard about: food insecurity in...
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