Text: “Woman takes helm of Japanese Aegis destroyer for 1st time” Extract: “Capt. Miho Otani became the first woman to take the helm of a Japanese Aegis destroyer on Monday, pledging to set an example for other female sailors to follow. “I expect you to pursue our missions without hesitation,” Read more
Text: “COVID-19 testing in schools works. So why aren’t more doing it?” Extract: “Asymptomatic screening dramatically increases case detection among students and staff in the K through 12 setting,” says M. Jana Broadhurst, a microbiologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center who led the team that designed and implemented Read more
The website Rejected Princesses focuses on an underrepresented part of history and uses a comic-style format: The website Rejected Princesses has a page on Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who is the deadliest female sniper of all time. https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/lyudmila-pavlichenko. The website focuses on an underrepresented part of history and uses a comic-style format. This website (and the Read more
Text: “Tokyo ward Shibuya certifies same-sex partnerships” Extract: The Shibuya ward in Tokyo has become the first place in Japan to recognise same-sex partnerships. It passed an ordinance allowing officials to issue certificates to same-sex couples this summer. The documents are not legally binding but the ward is calling on businesses Read more
Text: “Why ‘Maus’ remains ‘the greatest graphic novel ever written,’ 30 years later” Extract: “ART SPIEGELMAN didn’t set out to reinvent a swath of his chosen field. He was only trying to tap his family history, even as he sat clear across the country estranged from his New York father, several Read more