Places, Culture & Travel: 10 of 10
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How Tucson, Arizona is facing up to a megadrought
As the south-western United States faces the worst drought in more than a millennium, a city on the banks of a dry riverbed may have answers for gleaning water from the desert.
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The Only Way the U.S. Can Win the Tech War with China
The tech war between China and the U.S. over advanced semiconductors is rapidly heating up, but the U.S. needs allies to win
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Never Completely Dutch: Flemish Writers in the Land of Freedom
Writers Ivo Victoria, Sarah Meuleman and Geert Buelens all found it liberating to move to the Netherlands. But it wasn’t long before they encountered the downsides of their destination country.
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What’s the Real Cost of Mezcal?
Communities in Oaxaca, Mexico, are striving to produce mezcal sustainably—but soaring demand from across the border makes it tough.
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Texas Bookstores Are Writing Their Own Stories
Indie bookshops across the state are embracing change, to thrive and stay alive. But a lot depends on the upcoming holiday season.
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Dozens of once crystal-clear streams and rivers in Arctic Alaska are now running bright orange and cloudy and in some cases, acidic
This otherwise undeveloped landscape now looks as if an industrial mine has been in operation for decades, and scientists want to know why.
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Colette: The most beloved French writer of all time
An icon in her native France, Colette's scandalous life and works still captivate readers 150 years on from her birth, writes Alan Simpson.
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Best restaurant in Montreal according to Tripadvisor does not exist
Le Nouveau Duluth enjoyed an incredible reputation on Tripadvisor – raising questions over online reviews
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Study on former citizens of East Germany sheds light on why people may choose deliberate ignorance
A new study explored reasons why some citizens of the former East Germany chose not to view files that the Stasi, the notorious secret police force, kept of them when the archives were opened in 1991. The study was published in the journal Cognition. ...
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Bushwalkers accidentally discover Australia's first known bioluminescent millipedes
Scott Kemp first saw glow-in-the-dark millipedes in the Illawarra 18 years ago, but he had no idea he was making a significant scientific discovery.
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ANALYSIS | Twitter's time in Canadian politics began with an apology — and then it got worse | CBC News
Whenever and however the Twitter era comes to an end, its impact on Canadian politics will have been great — if not entirely good.
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Texans Eat Pickles At The Movie Theater, And They're Surprised To Learn No One Else Does
Popcorn and pickle, anyone? One unconventional snack that only Texans have been ordering for decades is "movie theater pickles."
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How the Puritans once banned Christmas in Massachusetts
You have likely heard the story of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" — but what about the one where the Puritans in Massachusetts banned the holiday altogether?
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America has a history problem. Meanwhile, Australia still has a problem with truth
The Statue of Liberty offers a haven to the tired, poor and huddled masses yearning to be free. What greater dream could there be? Yet liberty is in the eye of the beholder, it depends on who we are, writes Stan Grant.
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Most assume writing systems get simpler. But 3,600 years of Chinese writing show it’s getting increasingly complex
The extraordinary Chinese writing system has over 4,000 core complex characters – and they’ve been getting more complex over time.
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'We've definitely got a profit crisis': Is corporate gouging the biggest cause of inflation?
Soaring corporate profits are being blamed for fuelling inflation, as figures show companies in Australia are enjoying sky-rocketing profits despite the pandemic.
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How California’s Bullet Train Went Off the Rails
America’s first experiment with high-speed rail has become a multi-billion-dollar nightmare. Political compromises created a project so expensive that almost no one knows how it can be built as originally envisioned.
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Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past
The so-called lost decade has now stretched to three. What went wrong, asks Rupert Wingfield-Hayes.
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Brekkies, barbies, mozzies: why do Aussies shorten so many words?
Colloquialisms such as barbie and smoko are like accents – part of the glue that sticks Australian English speakers together.
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Neanderthals: how a carnivore diet may have led to their demise
Zinc in their bones reveal that these early humans were top of the food chain.