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Global crises have shaped our world over the past two decades, affecting education systems everywhere. Higher education researcher Emmanuel Ojo has studied the impact of these disruptions on educational opportunities, particularly in southern Africa.

The physical impact alone has been seismic, but has the pandemic also altered how we see ourselves and the world?

In Philadelphia, fatal overdoses are the No. 3 cause of death after heart disease and cancer. That’s been the case each year since 2016, except in 2020 and 2021 when COVID-19 deaths outpaced overdose deaths. The vast majority of fatal overdoses in Philly involve the synthetic opioid fentanyl.

Seeing falsehoods everywhere is as damaging as believing too much. Our focus should be on helping people interpret information better

From yesterday's column by Prof. Zeynep Tufekci: [T]o promote the appearance of consensus [that the COVID-19 pandemic was definitely caused… The post N.Y. Times Columnist on the Deception Surrounding the COVID-19 Origin Debate appeared first on Reason.com.

Five years ago, on 17 March 2020, France went into lockdown in an attempt to contain the spread of a new virus that came to be known as Covid-19. President Emmanuel Macron on Monday hailed France's solidarity during this period, which he and others say is crucial to remember in…

The new, coarser world will likely be with us for years to come.

Pandemic panic led to ‘millions of taxpayers’ cash blown on measures with no apparent plan or proof that it was working to protect public health’

Researchers hope experiments planned at high-security Hong Kong labs can determine further risks from virus

Five years after the first lockdown, millions of lives are still being ruined by this debilitating disease. You wouldn’t know it, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

From chatshows in spare bedrooms to the sheer terror of infecting Hollywood megastars, making television in lockdown became utterly wild. The insiders tell all