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Population Control: An economic approach
How population control influences economic growth Economic growth is often heralded as the guarantee of future prosperity for a countries inhabitants and the leading measure of a modern civilisations progression, but is it po...
A Sharply Divided Brazil Re-Elects Dilma Rousseff. Let The Healing Begin?
Brazilians reelected Dilma Rousseff as president on Sunday in the most competitive vote since the end of the country’s military dictatorship and the beginning of direct elections in 1989. The incumbent from the Workers’...
‘Me’: On Gender Constructs
This poem is about attitudes that try to define a particular gender, and how different societal labels lead to subtle discrimination. I was born, and you looked at your weighing scales. I babbled, she smiled and filled ...
The Logic Of Our Sex Laws, Part 3: Altering The Acceptable
Previously: The Logic of Our Sex Laws, Part 2: Moving Forward The Nordic countries are often at least one step ahead of the rest of Europe when it comes to social progression. It’s perhaps unsurprising then, that the...
Indonesia’s virginity tests: A growing women’s rights violation
Indonesia’s city of Jember recently proposed imposing a state-sponsored two-finger test to check for the virginity of female high school students, preventing those who have engaged in pre-marital sex from receiving their ...
Just Because My Face Is A Little Different
The natural course of any language shows that some words, more than others, are likely to disappear. An advance in technology or a gradual cultural evolution can trigger the phenomenon. For instance, words such as mongolism or ...
