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The technology underlying Bitcoin is starting to spread its wings.
Slugs are voracious feeders.
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The nematode that can turn slugs into zombies.
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We’re often less careful when talking to people we know well than we are when we talk to strangers. That can be a mistake.
The UN Security Council has proved powerless to stop Assad’s use of chemical agents.
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Nothing the world has done has stopped Bashar al-Assad’s regime from using chemical weapons – but it’s imperative to keep trying.
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The satirical opposition group has failed to enter the Hungarian parliament, but it has scored a victory of sorts.
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A third landslide victory leaves the right-wing leader on a collision course with Europe.
A protest in Jerusalem on April 3 against the deportation of African asylum seekers from Israel.
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A day after agreeing a deal on resettling African asylum seekers with the UNHCR rather than forcibly deporting them, Israel announced the deal was off.
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To mark the 20th anniversary of the agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland, this episode of the podcast looks at its history, its legacy and the impact of Brexit on its future.
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A century ago, utopian thinkers and practitioners predicted the coming of a nude world of liberated bodies.
A Presbyterian church in Belfast.
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Twenty years after the Good Friday Agreement, churches have tended to marginalise the mavericks who helped bring about peace.
2001: A Space Odyssey’s sentient computer will only ever be a work of science fiction, says a cognitive neuroscientist.
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Anyone who thinks that Bond women can’t fight back have not been watching closely enough.
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The citizens of Northern Ireland were ready for peace long before national leaders signed on the dotted line.
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In the decades since the first shitpost, the practice has become widespread and sophisticated – especially among today’s young people.
Anything to declare?
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Sharing data about users’ HIV statuses is bad enough. But why collect it in the first place?
Tributes in Tottenham, London.
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The British government is not facing up to the serious challenges it faces.
German Sinti and Roma awaiting deportation from Asperg in southwestern Germany, May 1940.
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Some 20,000 Sinti and Roma died in Auschwitz alone.
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Safe spaces are fundamentally at odds with the rigorous intellectual exchange central to the idea of a university.
Memories of pre-invasion Iraq live on.
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After the US invasion brought their dictator down, Iraqis’ everyday lives were marked by chaos and violence.
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Why you might soon be paying more for your favourite sugary drink.
Swing low: Leeds male voice choir.
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Derbyshire police’s male-voice choir is out of tune with the modern world in refusing to admit women.
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Racist behaviour in universities manifests itself in nuanced and covert ways.
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A mythical Amazonia of lost tribes or lost cities is easy to challenge on a factual basis, but such objections appear rather feeble in the face of the power of cliché.
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Companies should abide by a set of principles in their engagement in schools to ensure they provide accurate and positive portrayals of menstruation.
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Cleaning up the oceans will require much better waste management in poorer countries.