A decade on the front line: what mobile data has taught us about responding to Ebola and other outbreaks
From West Africa in 2014 to the Bundibugyo outbreak in DRC and Uganda in 2026, GeoPoll has spent more than ...
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There’s a certain type of son who loves his father deeply but cannot sit in a room alone with him for more than twenty minutes — not because there’s anything wrong, but because neither of them was ever taught what men say to each other when nothing needs fixing
I have noticed, over a long time, that there is a twenty-minute limit on the kind of conversation I can ...
I stopped offering my opinion in family group chats six months ago, no commentary, no reactions, no jumping in to smooth things over, just to see who would notice my absence, and the silence taught me something I had been working hard not to know for about twenty years
Silence inside a family is not the absence of information. It is the information. Most of what you need to ...
My father grew up in the 1960s and he’s the toughest man I know — not because he’s never been broken, but because I have never once seen him stay broken, and the speed with which he gets back up has always looked to me less like strength and more like a man who was simply never taught that staying down was an option
There’s a particular sound a man makes when he’s trying to hold it together in front of his kids. It’s ...
Research suggests adults who find it easier to bond with animals than with people aren’t antisocial — they’re drawn to a form of connection where the terms are visible, the loyalty isn’t conditional, and the relationship doesn’t require them to monitor a constantly shifting set of expectations that human attachment taught them to treat as a second job
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Women over 60 who say they’ve never been more confident didn’t suddenly find self-esteem—they all stopped performing these 7 things that most women are taught to maintain from adolescence onward
Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. Last week at a coffee shop, I overheard a conversation that stopped ...
Psychology says people who always back into parking spots and people who pull straight in process decisions in fundamentally different ways — the backers-in are running a future-cost calculation before every action because someone in their childhood taught them that the hardest part of anything is getting out, not getting in
Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. You know that moment when you’re circling a crowded parking lot, and ...
Psychology says the adults who seem the most put-together — the ones who never complain, never ask for help, never fall apart in public — are often the ones whose childhood taught them that being low-maintenance was the price of being loved, and they’ve been paying it ever since
Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. You know that friend who never seems to need anything from anyone? ...
What replacing my tires taught me about planning for retirement
When my family and I moved to Canada seven years ago, we spent months driving through neighbourhoods trying to decide ...
I spent 35 years thinking my mother was cold until I learned these 8 ways women of her generation were taught to love without showing it
Growing up, I genuinely believed my mother didn’t love me the way other mothers loved their children. While my friends’ ...
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