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 solid 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 recuperate the copper wiring.
Clockwise from high left: Claire Harbage/NPR; Danielle Villasana for NPR; Muntaka Chasant for Fondation Carmignac; Garry DeLong/ Science Supply
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Clockwise from high 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 various 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-known virus that is worrying the specialists
- Easy methods to get alongside higher along with your siblings
- The Taliban’s choice to stone adulterers — particularly ladies
- Easy methods 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 high 11 record: the Goats and Soda tales with essentially the most pageviews in 2024. In the event you missed them the primary time round, it is by no means too late to catch up.
Mercy me: Pictures present what people have accomplished to the planet within the Anthropocene age
It is a virus chances are you’ll not have heard of. This is why scientists are frightened about it
Gorgeous photographs of an unlimited e-waste dumping floor — and those that make a residing off it
What it is like residing 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. shouldn’t be alone. Greater than a billion individuals have parasitic worms
Trapped in Rafah, U.S. medical volunteers say they cannot save lives and might’t evacuate
A brand new strategy to forestall HIV delivers dramatic ends in trial
Coronavirus FAQ: My associate/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 have got questions on any of those tales? What was the inspiration? What was essentially 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.