The Jakarta Post: Artificial intelligence may be ready to wipe out cervical cancer, after a study has shown Thursday that computer algorithms can detect cancerous lesions much better than trained experts or conventional screening tests. According to the World Health Organization, cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women with about 570,000 new…
Shannon Sims Freelance journalist writing for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and CityLab/ The Atlantic Land rights, education, the economy, and public security lie at the nexus of the Brazilian president’s priorities and critics’ concerns. If you’re shocked by the transformations that Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s new president, is planning for his…
Lila MacLellan/QUARTZY The earliest surviving film to depict African-American actors in an intimate moment made its online debut to modern audiences last month—on social media, of course. Viewers found the 29-second silent film, Something Good — Negro Kiss, made in 1898, deeply moving. “The restored film opens on a couple with lips locked in a…
Cyril Almeida, Member of staff/ Dawn, Pakistan THE emperor walked beneath the beautiful canopy in the procession, and all the people in the street and in their windows said, “Goodness, the emperor’s new clothes are incomparable! What a beautiful train on his jacket. What a perfect fit!” No one wanted it to be noticed that he…
DOT Desk: The Strategic Business Conference- 2019 of Mercantile Bank Limited was held at FARS Hotel & Resorts, Dhaka yesterday, reports The Financial Express. The heads of the Bank’s 138 branches and Head Office Divisions participated in the conference. A.K.M. Shaheed Reza, Chairman of the Board of Directors was the chief guest in the conference…
Shweta Sengar/ India Times East African country, Rwanda, has officially banned skin lightening and bleaching products. The Rwandan government is now sending officials across the country to enforce the ban. The country is leading a campaign against skin bleaching and substandard cosmetics, particularly products that include hydroquinone. “It is being implemented by the Ministry of…
Pranitha Menon, Freelance writer based in Dubai/Gulf News There’s immense beauty in strength and resilience and that’s something not to be missed It had been a warm morning. I stood under the shade of a lone tree that had miraculously escaped the axe at a busy intersection at one of the many popular commercial hubs…
Abrar Hussain of DOT The prime minister will sit with the political parties again for a dialogue at Gono Bhaban, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader announced yesterday. The parties will be invited to the Gono Bhaban through letters, Quader told media at the AL office on Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka. They were previously invited…
DOT Desk: Residents of some areas in Chattogram have been suffering immensely for a week due to low gas pressure for inadequate LNG Supply, reports The New Age. Officials of Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Company Limited and Petrobangla blamed inadequate supply of LNG for the crisis. For about a week, from morning till 2:00pm daily, many…
Science Alert: New guidance for under-18-year-olds from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in the UK said the evidence that time in front of a screen has a negative effect on children is “contested” and that the “evidence of harm is often overstated”. The evidence is so weak, the group said, that it…