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WHO’s first chief scientist talks about her journey, interest in TB and her father MS Swaminathan

Soumya Swaminathan and her colleagues were among the first to scale up the use of molecular diagnostics for TB surveillance.

Papiya Bhattacharya
· Oct 26, 2019 · 09:30 pm
Mattel’s Rosa Parks Barbie doll peddles a simplistic version of history

Mattel’s description of Parks’s life after 1955 reflects a widespread habit of presenting the Civil Rights Movement as having a successful mid-1960s endpoint.

David Ballantyne, The Conversation
· Sep 04, 2019 · 11:30 pm
With their bravery at Peterloo massacre, British women changed English politics forever

In 1819, a peaceful rally for political reform in Manchester turned violent after police attacked protestors, especially women, with truncheons and sabres.

Robert Poole, The Conversation
· Aug 20, 2019 · 09:30 pm

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