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Stronger work-family policies help women entrepreneurs build better businesses

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imageWomen who live in countries with more generous childcare policies are more likely to start growth-oriented businesses.Reuters

Today, November 19, marks Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, an opportunity to celebrate and raise awareness about women entrepreneurs around the world.

Entrepreneurship is arguably crucial for job creation and economic...

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Toilet talk: meeting one of the world's grand challenges with innovation

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imageChildren in Ethiopia wash their hands outside a school latrine.Unicef Ethiopia, CC BY-NC

How is it possible that 2.4 billion people lack access to improved sanitation facilities in 2015?

While many westerners use their bathroom time as “me time,“ 40% of the world’s population may be pooping outdoors, in an unsanitary latrine, or in...

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Why do public bathrooms make us so anxious, and why aren't we doing anything about it?

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imageThe treacherous toilet. Rebecca Boyd/flickr, CC BY-NC

“Public” and “toilet” don’t go together, except when they must. And that “must” is the moment we’re not home – when we need to go and can’t hold it in any longer.

Only then do we face the predicament of having to perform a deeply private...

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Talking heads: what toilets and sewers tell us about ancient Roman sanitation

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imageRuin of a second-century public toilet in Roman Ostia.Fr Lawrence Lew, OP, CC BY-NC-ND

I’ve spent an awful lot of time in Roman sewers – enough to earn me the nickname “Queen of Latrines” from my friends. The Etruscans laid the first underground sewers in the city of Rome around 500 BC. These cavernous tunnels below the...

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Why 1904 testing methods should not be used for today's students

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imageWhy are archaic tests being used today?Clemens v. Vogelsang, CC BY

When I was an elementary school student, schools in my hometown administered IQ tests every couple of years. I felt very scared of the psychologist who came in to give those tests.

I also performed terribly. As a result, at one point, I was moved to a lower-grade classroom so I could...

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With #OpISIS, Anonymous hacktivists contribute virtual boots on the ground

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imageAnonymous wants to make sure militant Islamist propaganda video, like this being filmed in Syria, doesn't make it online. Reuters/Stringer

The Islamic State, or ISIS, as well as other terrorist groups, use the internet – and more specifically, social media – as a public relations outlet. They release their public campaigns through...

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