In 2011, two German pre-historians started a project called “Tracking in Caves” [i]. The premise of their idea was simple: Pastoors and Lenssen-Erz invited three San hunter-gatherers from the Kalahari in Namibia to help them interpret some human footprints they had found in a cave in the Pyrenees.
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In Arusha and Moshi, Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania, tourism is the bee’s knees to a degree. Tanzania, with Mount Kilimanjaro and the Northern Safari Circuit (with National Parks like Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Lake Manyara) being key attractions, has attracted more than a million tourists in recent years.
Read MoreThe Legalization of Medical Aid in Dying in Quebec: A Doctor’s Perspective
On June 5th 2014, Quebec became the first province in Canada to legalize medical aid in dying, defined as ‘an act that involves deliberately causing the death of another person to put an end to that person’s suffering’. This phrasing carefully avoids the negative stigma associated with the term euthanasia, which literally means ‘good death.’
Read MoreFinding 'Truth' in Psychiatric Diagnoses
We've all encountered mental illness in some form or another. Maybe someone in your family suffers from depression, or someone from your school was rumoured to by “crazy”, or perhaps you are convinced that the homeless man on the sidewalk who yells a lot has schizophrenic paranoid delusions
Read MoreMaking Marriage Perfectly Queer: A Gay Marriage Critique
Ah, yes, that polarizing gay marriage debate, infused with the ‘you’re either with us or you’re against us’ mentality frequently pervasive in hot-button social issues. I’m not here to write an article about how I am gay and what gay marriage means to me; there are plenty of those around already.
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