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Un país del Sur ante problemas de salud similares a los del Norte
Written by Nicolás Tereschuk
Argentina, a country of medium income, shows some figures of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) similar to an industrialized country. ¿Which public policies are starting to take into account this problem, which in some decades can be a threat for the whole Health System?
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Beyond Statistics: Informal Employment and Mexico City’s Subway
Written by JuanPedroLgs
I take Mexico City’s subway twice a day. It is normal to hear “150 songs in MP3 format! It has been tested! It is guaranteed! Take it! Take it!”, or to exit the station to see an entire outdoor market has formed, where you can find anything from perfumes to […]
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The Social Pipeline: Identity within the Global Village
Written by Clément Renaud
All articles you read, videos you watch, posts you tweet and things you like can now automatically be reposted to all your online profiles, creating a social pipeline. In China, activists use this method of mass propagation to fight against the amnesia that strikes their posts when deleted by censorship. But at the […]
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Would you pave paradise to put up a parking lot?
Written by purpleromero
Let everyone first understand what the problem is – and then we can come up with the appropriate solutions.
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Fair dinkum, that’s good tucker!
Written by Lourdes Gomez
Good tucker that’s not Macca’s! There’s an old expression, “you are what you eat.” I used to think to myself, “I don’t get it…how could I be a cheeseburger? I certainly don’t feel like a cheeseburger.” The Australian Insitute of Health and Welfare indicates that ‘a higher proportion of Indigenous […]
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Economic success at Europe’s expense?
Written by Tibor Blažko
“Millions of rapacious Germans are coming every year as tourists and eating us out of house and home, tearing up our first class roads, taking shameless advantage of our cheap services, fantastic food and boundless hospitality. … And rapacious Germans forced people to invest their capital in German industry. Germany thrives […]