Two weeks of fun in the sun?
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Vacations can tell us many things about sex and power in our own culture.
Vive la Résistance.
EPA/Philippe Wojazer
When he interred four anti-racist and secularist icons in Paris’s Panthéon, François Hollande perhaps hoped some of their legacy would rub off on him.
Justice Secretary Michael Gove is overseeing human rights reform.
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The Conservatives have got it half-right by seeking to repeal the Human Rights Act. Too bad they want to replace it with something almost as unhelpful.
Sleep before you speak.
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Social biases like racism and sexism can be weakened after a good night’s sleep, suggests study.
Looks pretty bad from where we stand.
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Football is a huge deal in Europe but less so in the states. So why did it take action from Loretta Lynch to topple FIFA?
Sunrise, sunset: Syrian refugees arrive on the Greek island of Kos.
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The EU’s proposal to relocate 40,000 Syrian and Eritrean nationals from Greece and Italy to other EU Member States is not what it seems.
“I’m looking forward to the day all this needle-hunting is computerised, to be honest.”
Jean-François Millet
The UK and other governments seem set on the idea that finding needles can be made easier by radically increasing the size of the haystack.
Zurich: while FIFA bureaucrats are in crisis mode, referees train for the Women’s World Cup.
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While FIFA officials face charges, women footballers face poor conditions and underinvestment ahead of the World Cup.
Time to reflect.
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Blair’s time as peace envoy left a lot to be desired.
How the Daily Mail reported Jeffrey Spector’s final meal with his family.
A recent ombudsman’s report suggests that most people are more concerned with end-of-life care than the right to end their lives.
Kafka’s creepy descendent.
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Watch The Shining after reading this and you may find that the Czech author haunts The Overlook Hotel just as much, if not more, than any of its regular spectral figures.
Inspiring role models can help more girls consider a career in science.
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The new government should link policies on education, career progression and welfare to tackle the lack of women in science.
What we may imagine isn’t necessarily the truth.
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What we see in online dating is not always what we get.
Demonstration in favour of legalising assisted dying in London, November 2014.
David Holt
There’s massive support for the legalisation of assisted dying, but getting UK parliaments to pass a law remains a problem.
The higher they are, the further they have to fall.
Ramil Sagum
Software is now too critical to how the world works, so we need to enforce ways to ensure it’s better.
Still on lease: the Chagos island of Diego Garcia.
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Why are the UK’s left-over possessions in the Indian Ocean still the subject of furious legal dispute?
A disaster waiting to happen?
A new study rejoices at being able to predict crowd movements and size with phone data. But those methods won’t keep us safe.
She’s got skills.
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The new government wants to take on failing and coasting schools, but they may not have the right tools for the job.
Questions to answer: Walter De Gregorio, FIFA Director of Communications and Public Affairs.
EPA/Ennio Leanza
Charges of corruption by US prosecutors against FIFA have parallels to the IOC’s problems in the 1990s.
Now then, where was I?
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Our minds have always adapted to their environment but advertisers are exploiting opportunities for distraction like never before.
Sources close to the code.
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Software freebies can help businesses grow, innovate and attract staff – assuming they’ve worked out how to protect against the dangers.
Take one healthy T cell … and modify some things.
NIAID
If you can’t find the specific T cells you need to fight a cancer, make them.
Cameron is in a real hurry to get the referendum underway.
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The promised referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU is now firmly on the parliamentary agenda. Opening parliament on May 27, the Queen announced that the government would introduce early legislation…
Working one day, gone the next.
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The government’s commitment to boosting employment is undermined by the proliferation of harsh and insecure temporary jobs with no long-term prospects.
Self-help.
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It’s not all isolation and cyber-bullying: technology offers access to communication and therapies that could help sufferers of mental illness.