Clockwise from higher left: Mahamat Djouma, 14, fled the warfare in Sudan with out dad and mom and along with his 5-year-old twin brothers, whom he now cares for. Eddie Almance (left) and his sister Leila of Texas pose earlier than heading to promenade. Their grandmother says that for seven generations, the members of the family have cast shut bonds. A magnification of the anterior of the larva of the pork tapeworm. This 12 months, the press reported on a previous deposition by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that he had been contaminated by a parasitic worm. He didn’t specify the kind however worm researchers imagine it might have been a pork tapeworm. Simon Aniah, a 24-year-old from Ghana, burns electrical cables to get well the copper wiring.
Clockwise from prime left: Claire Harbage/NPR; Danielle Villasana for NPR; Muntaka Chasant for Fondation Carmignac; Garry DeLong/ Science Supply
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Clockwise from prime left: Claire Harbage/NPR; Danielle Villasana for NPR; Muntaka Chasant for Fondation Carmignac; Garry DeLong/ Science Supply
What sorts of world subjects get the eye of readers?
From our roundup of most considered tales of 2024, Goats and Soda can state that our on-line viewers is extremely inquisitive about various vary of subjects. The subjects typically contact on deep and generally painful feelings — but in addition can provide hope, like insights into constructing shut bonds with brothers and sisters.
- Slightly-known virus that is worrying the consultants
- How you can get alongside higher along with your siblings
- The Taliban’s determination to stone adulterers — particularly ladies
- How you can survive a 121-degree day
- And … even SARS-CoV-2 made the record because the pandemic entered its fourth 12 months as we investigated the query: Why did my accomplice/child/housemate get it and I did not?
With out additional ado, this is our prime 11 record: the Goats and Soda tales with probably the most pageviews in 2024. Should you missed them the primary time round, it is by no means too late to catch up.
Mercy me: Photographs present what people have finished to the planet within the Anthropocene age
Gorgeous photographs of an enormous e-waste dumping floor — and those that make a dwelling off it
What it is like dwelling by way of a 121 diploma day
How do you get siblings to be good to one another? These Latino households have a solution
Taliban affirms that stoning might be punishment for adulterers — particularly ladies
RFK Jr. isn’t alone. Greater than a billion folks have parasitic worms
Trapped in Rafah, U.S. medical volunteers say they cannot save lives and may’t evacuate
A brand new option to forestall HIV delivers dramatic ends in trial
Coronavirus FAQ: My accomplice/roommate/child bought COVID. And I did not. How come?
Remarkably resilient refugees: A teen on his personal, a girl who was raped
Your Flip: Do you’ve questions on any of those tales? What was the inspiration? What was probably the most difficult a part of reporting and writing them? E mail us at goatsandsoda@npr.org with the topic line “2024” and we’ll reply your queries in an upcoming previous.