Clockwise from higher left: Mahamat Djouma, 14, fled the struggle 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 sort however worm researchers consider it may 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 worldwide matters get the eye of readers?
From our roundup of most seen tales of 2024, Goats and Soda can state that our on-line viewers is extremely interested by various vary of matters. The matters usually contact on deep and typically painful feelings — but in addition can supply hope, like insights into constructing shut bonds with brothers and sisters.
- Somewhat-known virus that is worrying the consultants
- The way to get alongside higher together with your siblings
- The Taliban’s choice to stone adulterers — particularly girls
- The way to survive a 121-degree day
- And … even SARS-CoV-2 made the checklist because the pandemic entered its fourth 12 months as we investigated the query: Why did my associate/child/housemate get it and I did not?
With out additional ado, this is our prime 11 checklist: the Goats and Soda tales with probably the most pageviews in 2024. If you happen to missed them the primary time round, it is by no means too late to catch up.
Mercy me: Images present what people have accomplished to the planet within the Anthropocene age
It is a virus you might not have heard of. This is why scientists are frightened about it
Gorgeous photographs of an enormous e-waste dumping floor — and those that make a residing off it
What it is like residing by 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 can be punishment for adulterers — particularly girls
RFK Jr. is just not alone. Greater than a billion folks have parasitic worms
Trapped in Rafah, U.S. medical volunteers say they can not save lives and might’t evacuate
A brand new method to forestall HIV delivers dramatic leads to trial
Coronavirus FAQ: My associate/roommate/child obtained COVID. And I did not. How come?
Remarkably resilient refugees: A teen on his personal, a girl who was raped
Your Flip: Do you might have 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.