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Why we need to decolonise the skies

Astronomer Dr Tana Joseph explores how rethinking way we look at the stars could improve our relationship with our own planet and make it a healthier place to live.

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When you can’t return home

Migrants and refugees cannot choose to return home, so homesickness becomes a profound and long-lasting feeling. This powerful force infuses migrant cultures, and is rarely given the serious attention it warrants.

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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean

Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.

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Healthy scepticism

Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.

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  • Cape Town, South Africa: The docks at Cape Town. Photograph by George Washington Wilson, 1896.
  • Cape Town, South Africa: Table Mountain from The Vineyard Hotel at Newlands. 1896.
  • Line drawing of the Burroughs Wellcome & Co. office, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Cape Town, South Africa: Adderley Street. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Cape Town, South Africa: Government Avenue. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Ink sketch of Farmer Peck's refreshment station, on the road from Simon's Town to Cape Town, South Africa 1844.
  • Cape Town, South Africa: houses of parliament. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Cape Town, South Africa: Parliament House with Table Mountain behind. Photograph by George Washington Wilson, 1896.
  • South Africa: Cape Town and Table Mountain from Table Bay. Photograph by George Washington Wilson, 1896.
  • Cape Town, South Africa: a tree-lined road and mountains. Photograph by Dr Tempest Anderson, 1905.
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