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RPGCast – Episode 450: “In VR, The Shark Jumps You”

RPGCast – Episode 450: “In VR, The Shark Jumps You”

RPGamer has been covering RPGs since 1998, with the current version of the site launched in 2018. Due to the wholesale change in our back-end and systems only certain content created from 2018 onwards has…

RPGCast – Episode 449: “Bread Formed Bag”

RPGCast – Episode 449: “Bread Formed Bag”

RPGamer has been covering RPGs since 1998, with the current version of the site launched in 2018. Due to the wholesale change in our back-end and systems only certain content created from 2018 onwards has…

Why the UN is establishing a database of worldwide companies working in Israeli settlements

Why the UN is establishing a database of worldwide companies working in Israeli settlements

Hundreds of companies are doing business in around 250 illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, that are effectively subsidised and maintained by the Israeli government. In December, a United Nations’ database of businesses that…

A Delicate Weave: people singers from Western India have a good time range within the face of intolerance

A Delicate Weave: people singers from Western India have a good time range within the face of intolerance

A Delicate Weave (Jhini Bini Chadariya), a documentary film set in Kachchh, Gujarat in Western India, traces four different musical journeys, all converging in the ways they affirm religious diversity, syncretism (blending of religions and…

For LGBTI staff, working abroad could be a lonely, irritating and even harmful expertise

For LGBTI staff, working abroad could be a lonely, irritating and even harmful expertise

In Indonesia, severe public penalties are inflicted upon people found to be in same-sex relationships. Beawiharta Beawiharta/Reuters Published: November 22, 2017 2:05pm EST Authors Miriam Moeller Senior Lecturer, International Business, The University of Queensland Jane…

How Hong Kong Umbrella motion was crushed and pro-democracy activists steadily silenced

How Hong Kong Umbrella motion was crushed and pro-democracy activists steadily silenced

Young Hong Kong democracy activists Joshua Wong, Alex Chow and Nathan Law were released on bail from jail on October 23. They will now appeal against the prison sentence for their role in the 2014…

Earthquakes brought on by industrial actions: what are the dangers and the way can they be decreased?

Earthquakes brought on by industrial actions: what are the dangers and the way can they be decreased?

On September 3, 2016, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck just northwest of Pawnee, Oklahoma, causing moderate to severe damages in buildings near the epicenter. It was the largest ever recorded in the state. The Pawnee earthquake followed…

Design international, manufacture native: a brand new industrial revolution?

Design international, manufacture native: a brand new industrial revolution?

What if globally designed products could radically change how we work, produce and consume? Several examples across continents show the way we are producing and consuming goods could be improved by relying on globally shared…

A detailed-up have a look at what occurs when vacationers and Maasai communities meet

A detailed-up have a look at what occurs when vacationers and Maasai communities meet

My study of interaction between tourists and a Maasai community raised questions about the boundaries between research, tourism and entertainment. For one thing, the local Maasai generally classify overseas visitors, whether researchers, NGO workers, businessmen…

El flagelo del aborto ilegal en América Latina: ¿hay democracia sin derechos reproductivos?

El flagelo del aborto ilegal en América Latina: ¿hay democracia sin derechos reproductivos?

Read in English . Tres cuartos de todos los abortos en América Latina se hacen de forma ilegal. Junto con África y Asia, esta región reune gran parte de los 17.1 millones abortos realizados de…

Dams on Myanmar’s Irrawaddy river may gasoline extra conflicts within the nation

Dams on Myanmar’s Irrawaddy river may gasoline extra conflicts within the nation

Myanmar makes many headlines these days. While most of the focus has been on the Rohingya issue, the country is also heading towards an important economic and livelihood crisis. Myanmar was once called “Asia’s rice…

The search to revive extinct Aurochs to revive historical lands

The search to revive extinct Aurochs to revive historical lands

Rewilding and restoration of land often rely on the reintroduction of species. But what happens when what you want to reintroduce no longer exists? What if the animal in question is not only locally extinct,…