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Recycled waste water is perfectly safe to drink, but many people aren’t keen to use it for anything other than watering plants.
In contrast to what its promoters claim, the four-day week does not guarantee more motivated workers.
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Working better or working less? Yaëlle Amsallem and Emmanuelle Léon explain how the four-day week raises questions about the meaning we give to work.
Sergei Guriev, one of the main minds behind western sanctions on Russia, is adamant about their restraining power on the Kremlin.
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One of the main minds behind sanctions on Russia, Russian economist and political refugee Sergei Guriev is adamant about their restraining power on the Kremlin.
Inaugurated in February, the new Arena Porte de La Chapelle, which will be used for gymnastics and badminton, is seen as an opportunity for the area to shed its poor reputation.
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Do big sporting events such as the Olympics help boost tourist numbers in the long run? It all depends on where they take place, according to research.
Francisco Franco at a sailing regatta in the bay of La Concha in San Sebastián. The even was later broadcast in NO-DO 1028A.
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During the Franco dictatorship, Spanish cinema goers were forced to watch the regime’s propaganda newsreels before every film.
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We often put artists on a pedestal, but if we look at their personalities closely, we see that they aren’t so different from the rest of us.
Robert Badinter sits at the National Assembly on 17 September 1981, during the examination of his bill on the abolition of the death penalty. The death penalty was abolished in France on 9 October 1981.
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The death in February of the man who abolished the death penalty inspired a national homage in France. Yet, Robert Badinter remains little known outside of the country.
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Europe’s ageing population means that Generation Z stands to inherit huge amounts of property in the coming years, resulting in reduced demand for mortgages.
Susana and the elders, as depicted in the Biblia Sancti Petri Rodensis, BnF, Latin 6 (3), f. 66v.
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Written medieval records clearly show that women publicly and successfully reported men to the local authorities for sexual assault.
European farmers took various demands to Brussels on February 1, 2024, clogging the streets with 1,300 tractors as EU leaders met for a summit.
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At the farmers’ protests in Brussels in February, there were some who demanded for authorities to cut back red tape, while others rallied against market concentration. But such a polarisation isn’t insurmountable.
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Tobacco harms the very structure of our cells, and affects almost every part of our bodies and nervous systems.
Photograph of historic town of Ani, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016, one of the few cultural enclaves of Armenian origin in Turkey that has not been destroyed.
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Azerbaijan’s cultural genocide against Armenian heritage sites has long been overlooked by the international community.
Women donning gorilla masks pose in front of the original Guerilla Girls posters, as part of the ‘Disobedient Objects’ exhibition at the V&A in 2014.
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Notwithstanding the proliferation of exhibitions devoted to women, the question that feminists asked in the 1980s is more relevant than ever.
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Hours of screen time causes eye damage among millions of people worldwide, but it can be avoided by taking these precautions.
Children who attended a Montessori school found it easier to put themselves in other people’s shoes.
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Montessori education is as popular as ever. But is the teaching method really more effective than conventional schooling?
View of the new excavations in front of what is currently left of the Ilsenhoehle under the Ranis castle. Photo by Karen Ruebens. This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
New discoveries of bone fragments at Ranis cave in Germany prove the early presence of cold-adapted Homo sapiens in northern Europe
Environmental philosopher Andreas Malm has described Sainte-Soline as an “avant-gardist struggle”.
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Protests against massive water reservoirs and new skiing infrastructure are some of the events in 2023 that have thrust climate adaptation politics into the limelight. Here’s why it matters.
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We are constantly talking to ourselves, but our internal monologues have received surprisingly little attention from philosophers, until now.
A mannequin in a coffin illustrates the distress of many farmers who have been demonstrating for several days on the A7. Photo taken on 24 January near Montélimar.
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Why are French farmers blocking the roads? An academic who has been studying discontent within the farming world since 2019 provides some clues.
Golden wheat fields in Morocco.
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New research shows that Neolithic migrants from Spain brought agriculture to Northern Morocco over 7,500 years ago.