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“I was stranded on the IJP road and then later at the I-8 for hours on end with the roads all practically flooded. We were literally two people driving the car: one mistimed gear shift and we would have been stranded in the rain on the road for the next 6 […]

Welcome to Meine Kleine Farm (My little farm), where you actually get to meet the meat you’re going to eat. Seriously, say hello to the cute piggy face on your sausage label — because one could not exist without the other. That’s the point of the new German online initiative, […]

In 2008, our world crossed a demographic Rubicon: for the first time in history, more people lived in urban areas than in rural ones. On a planet effectively bursting at the seams, where megacities are growing faster than ever before, the question of whether the built environment is sustainable is […]

Dr Farrukh Ali Khan, a US based Pakistani doctor, predicts that the incidence of  hepatitis C will triple in next 10 years, if it keeps on increasing at the current rate. Such a statement throws a glaring light on the ineffective policies and planning of the government and its inability to control the […]

It seems that it just takes a couple of brave students plus one collective vision in order to awaken a society’s hunger for democracy. In the final months leading up to the Mexican presidential elections, 131 students from a private university– Universidad Iberoamericana– decided to defy the media’s allegedly favorite […]