By Gaston Adoyo, Lecturer and researcher, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Coconut trees are iconic plants found across the world’s tropical regions. They’re called “nature’s supermarket” or the “tree of life” in several cultures because every part of the coconut tree is used. Its leaves can be used to thatch homes, its heart can be eaten and its roots have medicinal uses.
The refreshing liquid found within a young green coconut is a highly prized component of the coconut palm. Coconuts are unique in the world of fruits because they have a large internal cavity filled with water. Other fruits typically store water within individual cells or pulp.
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By Martina Calçada Kohatsu, PhD Candidate in Educational Psychology, McGill University
Dialogue can offer a way out of the polarization created between parents and their children by the internet and long online hours.
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By Luc Rouban, Directeur de recherche CNRS, Sciences Po
The ruling in a Paris court that the far-right leader is guilty of misappropriating public funds will probably eliminate her from the 2027 presidential election.
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By Nieves Cubo Mateo, Investigadora Princial del Centro de Investigación ARIES, Directora del Grado en Ing. biomédica., Universidad Nebrija
Over the past decade, 3D printing has gone from being a futuristic idea to a revolutionary tool. In medicine, its ability to produce custom-made, complex structures is changing the way doctors treat injuries and diseases – especially when it comes to rebuilding bones and other body tissues.
Additive manufacturing (as 3D printing is technically known) creates objects based on a digital model, building them layer by layer. In medicine, this technology is being used to make inert objects like implants and prosthetics, but it can also create living tissues that help the body repair itself.
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By Mohsen Rasoulivalajoozi, PhD candidate, Individualized Program, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University
Carmela Cucuzzella, Dean, Faculty of Environmental Design, Université de Montréal, Full Professor School of Design, Université de Montréal
Inclusive design can not only improve the physical well-being of people with disabilities but also improve social interactions and trust in mobility aids.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov in the defendants' cage on the last day of his trial on charges related to the July 2022 protests in Nukus, the main city in Karakalpakstan, at a court in Bukhara, Uzbekistan on January 31, 2023. © 2023 Eurasianet New allegations of ill-treatment and torture by Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov, the wrongfully imprisoned Karakalpak blogger and lawyer, have emerged following a prison visit by his lawyer.In a March 24 statement, Tazhimuratov’s attorney, Sergey Mayorov, detailed “mental and physical torture,” including beatings by other inmates…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Bangladesh Federation of Worker Solidarity activists hold a rally in Dhaka on May 7, 2023 to mark ten years since the Rana Plaza building collapse that killed more than 1,130 people. © 2023 Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto via AP Twelve years ago this April, the Rana Plaza factory building in Bangladesh collapsed, killing more than 1,100 garment workers and injuring more than 2,000 in one of the largest workplace disasters in modern history.The Rana Plaza tragedy fueled a global movement calling for mandatory human rights rules for businesses, which ultimately led the…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A Tokyo public high school corridor. © 2023 Bede Sheppard / Human Rights Watch Japan’s parliament, the Diet, voted this week to make public high school free for all children. Tuition fees had been abolished in 2010, but then reinstated in 2013.The new measure, approved in the budget, will expand equal opportunity in education, and should increase education access and certainty for children of parents with unstable incomes or from immigrant and other marginalized backgrounds who sometimes struggle with the bureaucracy of tuition subsidies.The initiative was pushed…
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By Hong Kong Free Press
"Whynot is down to earth. It understands what is actually happening in China. It tends to tell the stories of individual people and their fates. These stories will be lost."
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By Irvin Kinnes, Associate Professor of Criminology, University of Cape Town
The story is told from the inner sanctum of the state security apparatus that fought an urban terror campaign in South Africa between 1998 and 2002.
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