Junk food addiction: How Big Food hooks you just as cigarettes and cocaine trigger cravings

Junk food addiction: How Big Food hooks you just as cigarettes and cocaine trigger cravings

Along with speed, “addiction is also deeply enmeshed with memory and the memories we create for food are typically stronger and longer lasting than any other substance. Childhood memories of food can wield an uncanny power over our eating habits for the rest of our lives.”

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Why in Senegal’s capital Nicaragua is popular flight path for illegal migrants headed for US

Why in Senegal’s capital Nicaragua is popular flight path for illegal migrants headed for US

US authorities arrested Senegalese migrants 20,231 times for crossing the border illegally from July to December. That’s a 10-fold increase from 2,049 arrests during the same period of 2022, according to US Customs and Border Protection. Many like Ba cross in remote deserts of western Arizona and California.

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Ghana’s anti-gay law draws United Nations condemnation after it is passed by parliament

Ghana’s anti-gay law draws United Nations condemnation after it is passed by parliament

The United States said it was deeply troubled by the bill, saying it threatens Ghanaians’ freedom of speech and is urging for its constitutionality to be reviewed, said State Department spokesman Matthew Miller on Wednesday.

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India’s ruling Janata Party bets on women voters with sewing machines, piped water and cooking gas

India’s ruling Janata Party bets on women voters with sewing machines, piped water and cooking gas

Traditionally Indian women were more inclined to vote for Congress, the main opposition party, in part because it gave a country short of female role models its first woman prime minister, Indira Gandhi.

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With world’s lowest fertility rate already South Korean women prefer career growth to having babies

With world’s lowest fertility rate already South Korean women prefer career growth to having babies

Since 2018, South Korea has been the only Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) member with a rate below 1, defying the billions of dollars spent by the country to try to reverse the trend that led the population to decline for a fourth straight year in 2023.

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Why Uganda should rethink specialisation in higher education for turning over ‘sausages’ in the name of professionals

Why Uganda should rethink specialisation in higher education for turning over ‘sausages’ in the name of professionals

We are living in “A rapidly changing ‘wicked’ world, which demands conceptual reasoning skills that can connect new ideas and work across contexts.” We, therefore, need to quickly rethink education to train for now and the future, not for the past.

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Algeria inaugurates Africa’s largest mosque after years of political delays and cost overruns

Algeria inaugurates Africa’s largest mosque after years of political delays and cost overruns

The inauguration would guide Muslims “toward goodness and moderation,” said Ali Mohamed Salabi, the General Secretary of world union of Muslim Ulemas. Propagating a moderate brand of Islam has been a key priority in Algeria since government forces subdued an Islamist-led rebellion throughout the 1990s when a bloody civil war swept the country.

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Thy kingdom come: Revisiting political, cultural contests at the heart and soul of Busoga ‘Kyabazingaship’ in Uganda

Thy kingdom come: Revisiting political, cultural contests at the heart and soul of Busoga ‘Kyabazingaship’ in Uganda

The Kyabazinga is also called Isebantu, which means “father of the people”. This name was a symbol of unity derived from the expression and recognition by the people of Busoga that their leader was the “father of all people who brings all of them together”, and who also serves as their cultural leader. The wife of a Kyabazinga is called Inyhebantu or the mother of all Basoga.

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American students reeling under university loans forgiven as Biden writes off debts for 153,000

American students reeling under university loans forgiven as Biden writes off debts for 153,000

The first round of forgiveness from the SAVE plan will clear $1.2 billion in loans. The borrowers will get emails with a message from Biden notifying them that “all or a portion of your federal student loans will be forgiven because you qualify for early loan forgiveness under my Administration’s SAVE Plan.”

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US censorship: First Amendment must keep pace with ‘the rise of behemoth social media platforms’

US censorship: First Amendment must keep pace with ‘the rise of behemoth social media platforms’

An amicus brief is filed by non-parties to a lawsuit to provide information that has a bearing on the issues and to assist the court in reaching the correct decision.

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