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The new minimum standards for housing are not guaranteed to improve things if not accompanied by broader reforms.
Usually carried out in a public context, book burning is a method of censoring cultural, religious or political opposition.
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Struggles to uphold free speech throughout the centuries teach us that we should never take it for granted.
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A new law could make it harder for women to be publicly blamed for a marriage’s end.
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The Netflix adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter explores motherhood as complexly as the book, but some things get lost in translation.
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A professor of digital society and an ethics researcher discuss COVID passes and what they mean for the UK.
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Eight academics from across the world interviewed around 150 women about their stories of migration – revealing the threat many experience at every stage of their journey.
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New technologies known as vehicle to grid may allow us to power our houses and save money at the same time.
Worst cold ever? People claim that 2021 has delivered longlasting, debilitating colds.
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Our measures to stay safe during the pandemic may have made us more susceptible to other respiratory illnesses.
An empty street in Qionghai City, on China’s Hainan Island.
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Gay men in marginal provinces like Hainan are claiming spaces and building communities in their own secret worlds.
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Where solitary reading drives us into ourselves, reading aloud can be a deeply sensuous experience
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Government algorithms threaten our right to hold politicians to account.
Hydrogen may bomb.
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Everyone loves the idea of H2 cars, but they come with a huge disadvantage.
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Technology exists that can verify if you’ve come into contact with an infected person without revealing your location or identity – governments just need to be willing to use it.
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If it’s impossible to accurately predict the future then there may be limits to how smart artificial intelligence can become.
Artist Albert Robida imagined in 1882 how air travel might look in future.
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More than a century since humans learned to fly, we need to revolutionise how we stay up there.
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People could be asked to prove their identity to continuing posting political content or adverts on Facebook.
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Websites are trying to get around GDPR rules on giving you control over your data.
Mangroves growing strong.
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Mangrove forests grow in the tidal lagoons of tropical coastlines and they could actually benefit from climate change. Here’s what that means for us.
Smiles all round.
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If you’re a parent, there’s one less thing to worry about – your child is probably healthy even if they’re fussy about what they eat.
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Scientists asked young people to draw what they would like the natural world to look like when they’re older. Their imagination could help make conservationists more ambitious.
Are bulb bans a bright idea?
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Encouraging people to buy LED bulbs is not a long-term solution. We need lighting which is kind to the planet and our health.
‘Computer, compose tweet.’
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Our ‘Tony Stark’ image of tech moguls is obscuring the talent and toil of ordinary workers, and inflating the egos of the bosses.
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Why do some words sound pleasant to us, while others provoke disgust? Learning a new language can help us find out.
‘I used to love this track.’
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Being nostalgic about the past is linked to optimism about the future.
“We’re all mad here.”
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“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” To understand the universe, we need more Mad Hatter mathematicians.