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+36After three wet summers, these tiny creatures are booming. They could make you allergic to red meat
With ticks thriving after La Niña, more people are expected to be bitten by the parasites, and that could lead to an increase in cases of a potentially life-threatening meat allergy.
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+25Turns Out There's One Animal Powerful Enough to Mess With Lions' Feeding Habits
In a stark example of how everything on our living planet is interconnected, one species of tiny, invasive insects has reduced lions' abilities to feast on zebras.
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+25Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany
The claim that the maximum size of a PDF is 381 km x 381 km is completely false. There's no set limit to the size of a file.
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+37South Korea ‘puts the brakes’ on Google app store dominance
Starts monitoring developer deals after first slapping the G-force with substantial fine
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+18Biden’s Gaza Double Talk with Akbar Shahid Ahmed
Another [Long Reads] special episode about the Israeli war on Gaza
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+34Word games, wit and the pleasure of annoying people: a daughter's memoir sheds new light on the notoriously private John Clarke
Lorin Clarke’s account of growing up with her famous father is a loving, often funny portrait.
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+34England to roll out world's first seven-minute cancer treatment jab
Britain's state-run national health service will be the first in the world to offer an injection that treats cancer to hundreds of patients in England which could cut treatment times by up to three quarters. Following approval from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), NHS England
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+18Michael Hudson: The Truth about the Destruction of the Palestinians
What Michael Hudson learned about Palestinians from the Mossad 50 years ago: "The aim all along has been to kill them."
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+36Remains found in China may belong to third human lineage
A team of paleontologists has found evidence of a previously unknown human lineage. In their study, reported in Journal of Human Evolution, the group analyzed the fossilized jawbone, partial skull and some leg bones of a hominin dated to 300,000 years ago.
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+18These inhumane attacks on Rafah are no accident. They're central to the IDF's brutal, losing strategy | Paul Rogers
The use of intense force in Gaza has failed to achieve Netanyahu’s war objectives. The mood in Israel is beginning to shift, says academic Paul Rogers
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+20To save Cherokee language, a digital tool shares tales of Standing Rock and Big Snake with the next generation
Cherokees Writing the Keetoowah Way provides English translations of historic documents and lessons to help the next generation learn.
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+37Victim blaming has made cars the biggest killer of children in Australia
Globally, road “accidents” kill more than 1 million people a year, and are the primary cause of death for people aged under 30.
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+33Canada study debunks stereotypes of homeless people’s spending habits
Researchers find homeless people more likely to spend lump sum on housing and food and not ‘temptation goods’ such as alcohol
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+36After a dystopian "mandemic," the wacky "Creamerie" pokes at the remaining "inequities among women"
Perlina Lau discusses the Kiwi comedy that dares to imagine a world with few men and where wellness is weaponized
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+33Texas could get a 205-mph bullet train zipping between Houston and Dallas
The proposed electric railway line could travel 240 miles in under 90 minutes for over 6 million passengers per year.
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+27Proposed European Electronic ID Law Raises Concerns
The harmonisation of standards for electronic identification across the EU should normally be soporific enough to send even the most Club-Mate-hyped hacker straight to sleep, but as Computer Weekly…
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+247 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
Over the millennia, human language has produced a variety of beautiful, unusual, and weird forms of writing. Here are 7 of them.
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+24Czech Republic: New web site and online exhibits of the Prague Jewish Museum's 'Secrets in the Attic' Geniza project
"The Jewish Museum in Prague has launched an informative web site with online exhibits about the eclectic material discovered in genizas in a dozen synagogue buildings that have been researched in the country since the 1990s."
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+21Rivers Reborn: Alewives Continue to Make a Recovery in the Penobscot Watershed in Maine
Alewife fish populations are continuing to journey back home to Maine's Penobscot River thanks to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act which is helping to reconnect and restore fish passages.
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+31Ancient Fires Drove Large Mammals Extinct, Study Suggests
Fossils from La Brea Tar Pits in Southern California suggest that sabertooth cats and other large North American mammals disappeared as a result of wildfires spurred by human activity.




















