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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Across the African continent—from Nigeria and Ghana to South Africa—widespread protests have taken place to demand police reform in the wake of police misconduct and brutality. A continent-wide survey done in 2022 shows very low trust in the police and a prevailing perception of the police as the most corrupt among key institutions. …

Framework for understanding lack of resources and mental health problems among members of mixed-status families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Credit: Health Equity (2023). DOI: 10.1089/heq.2022.0141 From the start of the pandemic, the general population faced several fears amidst the rising death toll, business shutdowns, circulating virus, and overall uncertainty of the future. At the same time, the federal government…

Developments in fatigue, policy stringency, and daily COVID-19 deaths (September 2020–July 2021). Solid lines are developments in fatigue based on our survey data using a lowess smoother. Dashed lines are developments in stringency of government responses to COVID-19 (based on the Oxford Stringency Index). Red areas are developments in daily COVID-19 deaths per million using a kernel smoother. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…

The elaborately prepared feast at uber-exclusive restaurant Hawthorne, the setting of the new gourmand-culture thriller The Menu, is so photogenic that snapping pictures has been expressly forbidden; food in general, however, doesn’t come off looking so good.The dishes whipped up by self-serious celebrity chef Julian (Ralph Fiennes) and his militaristic fleet of obedient kitchen staff aspire to profundity rather than settling for the merely appetizing. As foodie douche Tyler (Nicholas Hoult) mansplains to his unimpressed…