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Forgotten women of science win recognition online
Royal Society and Wikimedia UK mark Ada Lovelace Day with event to promote work of female scientists By late afternoon scores of red women on Sam Haskell’s list had turned blue: female scientists, some dead and some living, many immensely distinguished, some geniuses, but whose names have almost been forgotten…
Expert warns world needs to move ‘rapidly’ toward ‘population shrinkage’
The world’s most renowned population analyst has called for a massive reduction in the number of humans and for natural resources to be redistributed from the rich to the poor. Paul Ehrlich, Bing professor of population studies at Stanford University in California and author of the best-selling Population Bomb book…
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