TEDxWomen: Showing Up – Review

On Saturday December 1st, TEDxUniversity of Edinburgh hosted their first event of the semester, a series of talks entitled “TEDxWomen:...

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Without a doubt, one of the most fascinating and complex organs of the human body is the eye, second only...

Ivory trading has been illegal since 1989, but 40,000 elephants die each year because of this multibillion dollar industry. Could...

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Prejudice is generally considered to be one of humanity’s fundamental defects. Our negative and unsubstantiated judgment of another person or...

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a virus that damages the cells of the immune system, which weakens the body’s...

Each year approximately 500,000 people die from malaria. Most are children. In fact, by the time you have finished reading...

“Eating fat will make you fat!”, seems obvious doesn’t it? This dietary mantra is deeply and securely enshrined in our...

Wars, climate change, overpopulation, scarce resources – the world is doomed, isn’t it? The late Hans Rosling, professor of International...