Five Key Takeaways from the European Elections in Poland

by Daniel Tilles Poland’s European elections resulted in a clear victory for the ruling national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, which won by an even greater margin than polls predi…
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Japan bombed an asteroid and now it's preparing to collect the debris

The Japanese Space Agency's Hayabusa 2 shot a cannonball at Ryugu and is ready to scoop up some of the ejected rock.
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Barcelona’s radical plan to take back streets from cars

Introducing "superblocks."
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'We're Not Being Paranoid': U.S. Warns Of Spy Dangers Of Chinese-Made Drones

The Department of Homeland Security is warning about the dangers of using Chinese-made drones, while some lawmakers want to prevent transit systems from buying Chinese-made subway cars.
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Sweden’s recycling is so revolutionary the country has run out of rubbish

Sweden’s recycling is so revolutionary, the country has to import rubbish from other countries to keep its recycling plants going. What lessons can we learn, asks Hazel Sheffield
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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, President Ulysses S Grant

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Grant's role in reconstructing the USA after the Civil War
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In my studio

Analog photo by Sandy Anciaux (Ghent, Belgium, 2019)
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Happy birthday GDPR. You're awful; you're great

European regulators are only warming up. Year Two of GDPR promises to be "interesting."
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Japan Then, China Now by Stephen S. Roach

Back in the 1980s, Japan was portrayed as the greatest economic threat to the United States, and allegations of intellectual property theft were only part of Americans' vilification. Thirty years later, Americans have made China the villain, when, just like three decades ago, they should be looking squarely in the mirror.
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China on the trade war.

Escalating the fervor.
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Why Las Vegas Is Betting on Elon Musk

Even if the Boring Company's “people mover” for the Las Vegas Convention Center is a bust, it helps burnish the city's high-tech brand.
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Chernobyl: the wildlife haven created when people left

Rare and endangered animals have thrived in the Chernobyl disaster zone since it was evacuated in 1986, as a new wildlife tour in southern Belarus shows
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These scientists are setting a forest on fire — and studying it with drones

Data from the blaze in Utah could improve models of how wildfire smoke spreads.
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10 reasons why van life is the best way to travel

Once reserved for hippies and retirees, van life is being embraced wholeheartedly by a new generation of modern nomads. Are you one of them?
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For Israelis the Nakba is a footnote. For Palestinians it's the heart of the conflict

Israelis tend to view the Nakba as a small, local affair that was quite restrained compared to Nazi genocide. For Palestinians, it is an ongoing dispossession. By Sam Freed.
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Meanwhile, in ancient Egypt

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The Most Over-the-Top First Class Airline Suites

From in-flight showers to video chats with flight attendants when you don't feel like getting up, here's what you could be enjoying in the skies.
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An Indian Political Theorist on the Triumph of Narendra Modi’s Hindu Nationalism

The writer Pratap Bhanu Mehta discusses the Indian Prime Minister’s huge win, the differences between him and other authoritarians, and what the future holds for India’s Muslims. By Isaac Chotiner.
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Sing Sing Sing

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Iran War Scenarios

Radio War Nerd (July 24, 2018)
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How “The Big Bang Theory” Normalized Nerd Culture

The series, which ended its twelve-season run on Thursday, brought tech concepts to an older generation as the field grew from a curiosity to a vexation to an inescapable substrate of American life.
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Washington state lawmakers just approved human corpse composting

Alternative burial options are growing in popularity.
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How Australia’s Labor Party Lost an Un-Losable Election

Pundits are blaming the Australian Labor Party's left-wing turn for its shocking defeat in Saturday's election. But the failure lies in the fact that this leftist program came too little, too late. By Daniel Lopez.
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How the dangerous evolution of Pakistan’s national security state threatens domestic stability

Escalating tensions between India and Pakistan over the disputed Kashmir border are a stark reminder that the subcontinent is one of the world’s likeliest nuclear flashpoints.
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Colorado becomes first state in nation to cap price of insulin

Diabetics in Colorado who use insulin to control their blood sugar levels won’t pay more than $100 per month for the drug starting in January thanks to a bill signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday. “Today, we will declare that the days of insulin price gouging are over in Colorado,” Polis said in his…
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After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed

In a quiet corner of my high school’s study room in 2009, I booted up my busted laptop while making sure nobody could peer over...
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Faith, Friendship, and Tragedy at Santa Fe High

Sabika Sheikh, a Muslim exchange student from Pakistan with dreams of changing the world, struck up an unlikely friendship with an evangelical Christian girl. The two became inseparable—until the day a fellow student opened fire. By Skip Hollandsworth.
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In India, One Publisher’s High-Stakes Fight for a Caste-Free Society

In May, 2015, Sagar Shejwal, a young, male nursing student in the west Indian state of Maharashtra, was murdered by a group of men who’d overheard his ringtone... By Liesl Schwabe.
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'Meteor' Captured on Camera over Australia

The piece of space dust put on a spectacular show in the night sky of South Australia.
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Men who receive paid paternity leave want fewer children, study finds

Spain’s paternity leave was part of a set of policies to promote gender equality in the labor market and at home, a researcher said
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Radioactive pigs are wandering Central Europe, 30 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

Thirty years after a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, radiation is still turning up in some unexpected places: for instance, in the wild boars tramping through the...
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How These Elite Civil War Marksmen Changed the Face of Warfare

Sharpshooters wore camo and hefted state-of-the-art rifles with longer, flatter trajectory 
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'Flying vehicles' could hit Paris 'within five years' says French capital's public transport operator

Fully electric “flying vehicles” could join Paris’ transport network “within five years”, according to the French capital's public operator RATP.
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Homeless population jumps by thousands across the San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco, like other cities and counties across the Bay Area, reported Thursday that homelessness has increased dramatically over the last two years.
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The curse of genius

We see exceptional intelligence as a blessing. So why, asks Maggie Fergusson, are so many brilliant children miserable misfits?
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China’s new ‘social credit system’ is an dystopian nightmare

Imagine calling a friend. Only instead of hearing a ring tone you hear a police siren, and then a voice intoning, “Be careful in your dealings with this person.” Would that put a damper on your rel…
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How a Mormon lawyer transformed archaeology in Mexico—and ended up losing his faith

The scientific legacy of a quest to prove the Book of Mormon
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More Than Half of Americans Reportedly Think We 'Shouldn't Teach' Arabic Numerals

If a recent poll conducted by the US market research company CivicScience is to be taken at face value, roughly one out of every two Americans doesn't think Arabic numerals should be taught as part of the curriculum in US schools.
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Is First Class Going Extinct?

Short version: It is, but it won't die tomorrow, and you can still book exceptional first-class seats on points and miles.
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Unknown Until Now–The Ongoing Effort to Identify the Dead in the Fredericksburg National Cemetery

The officer stood over the freshly exhumed grave with a pencil and ledger in his hands. He told others to search the remains as he struggled to decipher the crude etching on a weath…
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Will a Documentary Take Down the Polish Government?

A film exposing sex abuse by Catholic priests also exposes the corrupting ties between the church and the ruling political party.
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Inside China's Massive Surveillance Operation

In Xinjiang, northwest China, the government is cracking down on the minority Muslim Uyghur population, keeping them under constant surveillance and throwing more than a million people into concentration camps. But in Istanbul, 3,000 miles away, a community of women who have escaped a life of repression are fighting a digital resistance.
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Is California ready to ban gas-powered cars? Not yet. But they're thinking about it

A top regulator came close Thursday, but ultimately backed away from directly raising the notion of giving the boot to exhaust-belching automobiles.
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$100M ‘GozNym’ Bank Trojan Gang: 6 Arrested, 5 at Large - Security Boulevard

11 members of the GozNym malware network have infected 41,000 PCs via phishy spam campaigns. Six have been apprehended and are in custody.
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Inside One Woman's Journey to Photograph Every Native American Tribe

"Each of us has a responsibility to build relationships with the indigenous people of the territories that we're occupying."
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Canberra will be the first Australian city to run on 100 per cent renewable energy from October

Canberra will be effectively powered by renewable energy from October 1, according to the ACT's Climate Change Minister.
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The world’s oldest vegetarian restaurant

For more than a century, one family has helped transform the way Europe eats.
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The Arctic Farmer Growing Food in -30C

How is this man growing vegetables in the most northerly major human settlement on Earth.
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Les drapeaux et hymnes soumis au vote des Martiniquais ont été dévoilés - Martinique la 1ère

Ça y est la Collectivité Térritoriale de Martinique a dévoilé ce lundi 8 avril 2019 les trois drapeaux et les trois hymnes retenus par les deux commissions de sélection. Les Martiniquais ont jusqu'au 15 avril 2019 pour formuler leur choix. 
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The Children Growing up in a ‘Motherless Village’

In Indonesia there are areas where almost all young mothers go to work abroad. Indonesians call them the "motherless villages".
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