Clockwise from higher left: Mahamat Djouma, 14, fled the conflict in Sudan with out mother and father and together 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 varieties 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 numerous vary of subjects. The subjects usually contact on deep and typically painful feelings — but additionally can supply hope, like insights into constructing shut bonds with brothers and sisters.
- A bit of-known virus that is worrying the consultants
- The best way to get alongside higher together with your siblings
- The Taliban’s determination to stone adulterers — particularly girls
- The best way to 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 associate/child/housemate get it and I did not?
With out additional ado, here is our prime 11 record: the Goats and Soda tales with essentially the most pageviews in 2024. When you missed them the primary time round, it is by no means too late to catch up.
Mercy me: Images present what people have carried out to the planet within the Anthropocene age
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It is a virus chances are you’ll not have heard of. This is why scientists are apprehensive about it
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Beautiful images of an enormous e-waste dumping floor — and people who make a residing off it
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What it is like residing by means of a 121 diploma day
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How do you get siblings to be good to one another? These Latino households have a solution
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Taliban affirms that stoning will probably be punishment for adulterers — particularly girls
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RFK Jr. shouldn’t be alone. Greater than a billion individuals have parasitic worms
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Trapped in Rafah, U.S. medical volunteers say they can not save lives and may’t evacuate
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A brand new strategy to forestall HIV delivers dramatic ends in trial
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Coronavirus FAQ: My associate/roommate/child acquired COVID. And I did not. How come?
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Remarkably resilient refugees: A teen on his personal, a girl who was raped
Your Flip: Do you will have questions on any of those tales? What was the inspiration? What was essentially the most difficult a part of reporting and writing them? Electronic mail us at goatsandsoda@npr.org with the topic line “2024” and we’ll reply your queries in an upcoming previous.
