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Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

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Le « chemo brain » et d'autres séquelles du cancer ne perturbent pas seulement le quotidien : ils rendent aussi les sites web, les applications et les smartphones plus difficiles à utiliser. Thirdman/pexels

Les séquelles du cancer compliquent souvent l’usage des outils numériques

Rachel F. Adler, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Devorah Kletenik, Brooklyn College

Lire un texte trop petit, suivre des instructions complexes ou remplir un formulaire en ligne peut devenir un véritable obstacle après un cancer.
Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in an ice hockey match between former NHL stars and officials at the Shayba Arena in Sochi, Russia, in 2015. A patriarchal notion of masculinity has been central to Putin’s rule. (AP Photo/Artur Lebedev)

Vladimir Putin, the czar of macho politics, is threatened by gender and sexuality rights

Valerie Sperling, Clark University; Alexandra Novitskaya, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York); Janet Elise Johnson, Brooklyn College, and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, University of British Columbia

Putin has been consumed with presenting a hyper-macho image throughout his presidency. And in recent years, he’s ramped up sexist and LGBTQ-phobic rhetoric.
Police patrol outside the Embassy of Taiwan in Port-au-Prince on July 9, 2021, after 11 suspected assassins of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse broke into its embassy in an attempt to flee. Valerie Baeriswyl/AFP via Getty Images

Assassinations and invasions – how the US and France shaped Haiti’s long history of political turmoil

Jean Eddy Saint Paul, Brooklyn College

Local power struggles and strong US interests have long shaped political leadership – and presidential assassinations – in Haiti, limiting nation-building projects on the Caribbean island.
Students involved with the Resilient Schools Consortium in New York City quickly grasped the need for climate resiliency in their school buildings. Students from Mark Twain Intermediate School are seen here in October 2017. (Heather Sioux)

Students become school boiler‑room sleuths to assess climate change risks

Jennifer D. Adams, University of Calgary; Alexandra Gillis, Brooklyn College, and Brett Branco, Brooklyn College

After Hurricane Sandy, educators in New York City partnered with environmental and governmental organizations to put youth at the centre of preparing for risks and hazards in their school buildings.
A combination of education and care makes Sweden’s early childhood education so much better than Australia’s. Ebba Dahlqvist

Why Swedish early learning is so much better than Australia’s

Monica Nilsson, Jönköping University; Beth Ferholt, Brooklyn College, and Karin Alnervik, Jönköping University

Most people have heard that Finland leads the world in education, but fewer have heard that Finland’s neighbour, Sweden, is the international leader in early childhood education and care.
Turkey erupts in protest at the death of a 15-year-old boy. Depo photos/EPA

Turkish students and academics treated as state’s enemy within

Louis Fishman, Brooklyn College

Demonstrations have broken out across Turkey following the death of Berkin Elvan, a 15-year-old boy, who fell into a coma during last summer’s Gezi park protests after he was struck in the head by a teargas…

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