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8 years ago+27 27 0Catalonia election: a guide to its most important vote yet
Everything you need to know about Sunday’s regional election being billed as a plebiscite on independence from Spain
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8 years ago+27 27 0As the Communist Party wages a war on history, it would do well to examine its own.
If you weren’t already aware, there is a war going on at this very moment. It’s a war over history and how it is retold. The main protagonist, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has mobilised a vast army of propagandists to hijack post World War Two ( ...
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8 years agoAnalysis+25 25 0Europe's gasoline-heavy refiners see profit in VW scandal
Europe's refineries, many of which were built in the 1950s to support booming petrol demand, have been hit over the past 20 years by shrinking fuel demand and government incentives that skewed car sales toward diesel engines, which were seen as ...
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8 years ago+57 57 0 x 1Norway rewards Brazil with $1 billion for keeping the Amazon full of trees
In 2008, when the Amazon was facing a severe deforestation crisis, Norway, a country made rich from oil and gas production (and the biggest donor to protect tropical rainforests), pledged $1 billion to the government of Brazil if it could slow down t ...
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8 years ago+24 24 0German magazine claims the BMW X3 Diesel also violates European emissions limits
The German trade magazine Auto Bild reports that road tests conducted by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) found the diesel BMW X3 20d Xdrive guilty of emitting more than eleven times more NOx gases than the limits of Euro 6, E ...
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8 years ago+22 22 018 things you should do immediately to best prepare for the next five years
If you do anything, do this first one.
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8 years ago+26 26 0Bai Shi's amazing photo essay of life in a northeast Chinese coal town
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8 years ago+21 22 16 facts about how Americans and Chinese see each other
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s tour of the United States comes at a time of many tensions between the two nations. Our surveys capture American public opinion toward China, and Chinese public opinion toward the U.S.
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Current Event
8 years agoCurrent Event+24 24 0Easing Fear and One-Child Policy in Guangdong
Parents of newborn babies in southern China's Guangdong Province will no longer have to prove they obediently limited, through any means including forced abortion, the size of their nuclear families.
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8 years ago+20 20 0Chongqing Mayor Says Rural Land Reform Pilot Has Been Just the Ticket
The southwestern city of Chongqing has taken a big step toward reforming its system of household registration, known as hukou, by granting urbanites and people living in rural areas the same access to social welfare and public services, the governmen ...
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8 years ago+28 28 0Building a rope bridge with flying machines
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8 years agoExpression+25 25 0The Schizophrenic Society
Lost in a make believe world while we destroy the real one.
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8 years ago+24 24 0 x 2DIYBio Comes of Age
The DIYBio (or Do-It-Yourself Biology or Biohacking) Revolution is upon us. The Maker Movement — the combination of new digital fabrication tools, low-cost sensors, and an open-source ethos — opened the doors for the creation of scientific tools at f ...
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8 years ago+28 29 1 x 1This free online encyclopedia has achieved what Wikipedia can only dream of
With the right people and a little effort, we could have the internet we always wanted.
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8 years ago+43 43 0 x 1Vintage illustrations for The Hobbit from around the world
Tolkien’s first major work, The Hobbit was published in 1937. Because the story is driven by visual whimsy, it has also produced a number of vibrant illustrated editions from all around the world
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8 years ago+22 22 0VW's Emissions Cheating Found by Curious Clean-Air Group
Mock, European managing director of a little-known clean-air group, suggested replicating the tests in the U.S. The U.S. has higher emissions standards than the rest of the world and a history of enforcing them, so Mock and his American counterpart, ...
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8 years ago+44 44 0 x 1China is bringing sophisticated censorship to the US for president Xi’s state visit
Much of the high-gloss diplomacy surrounding Chinese president Xi Jinping’s state visit to Washington next week will be familiar to observers. There will be the photo ops, a state dinner, a wooden press conference featuring Xi and president Obama. As ...
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8 years ago+41 41 0 x 1The Corpus Clock | Corpus Christi College - Cambridge
The Corpus Clock is one of the newest and most distinctive public monuments in Cambridge. It is a unique and strange device for the measurement of time and is both hypnotically beautiful and deeply disturbing. It was invented, designed and given to C ...
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8 years ago+33 33 0Our seas are being degraded. Fish are dying, but human life is threatened too
A definitive study released last week found that the amount of wildlife in our oceans has fallen by half in 45 years. Academic and marine expert Callum Roberts says there is still time to reverse this decline by closing areas to fishing