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Best location to choose, to build the first city of a new (re-started) civilization
Response to: "If civilization restarted and you had to pick the best location to build the first city, which location would you choose to ensure a long term strategic and economic advantage?"
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Fake news have more engagement than real information, study reveals
A study published by the Oxford University Internet Institute concluded that fake news has a volume of sharing up to four times greater than news and real information.
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The Extraordinary Courage of a Putin Foe
National Review readers are well familiar with Bill Browder. “My grandfather was the biggest Communist in America, and I was the biggest capitalist in Russia.” I wrote about four generations of Browders at the beginning of this year, here. Remarkable stories come from those generations.
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7 Times People Found Money in Bizarre Places
A pot of gold doesn't always sit at the end of a rainbow. Instead, it can sit quietly in backyards, bathroom walls and even right beneath your feet. Some people set out to hunt for treasure, while others somehow manage to accidentally stumble onto valuable items.
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A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place – Egoistic Altruism
Why should you care about the well-being of people half a globe away?
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Steven Pinker talks Donald Trump, the media, and how the world is better off today than ever before
Steven Pinker explains how historically speaking the world is much better than ever before.
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Radio – last bulwark of media freedom and independence
On World Radio Day, celebrated on Monday, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) paid tribute to radio’s contribution to the fight for media freedom and urges support for exile radio stations that uphold the right to news and information of peoples subjected to the most extreme situations.
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The Human Toll of Terror
The pace and scope of the killing are dizzying. Some 300 members of families blown apart by bombs as they celebrated the end of Ramadan in Baghdad. Forty-nine dead at the Istanbul airport, 40 more in Afghanistan. Nine Italians, seven Japanese, three students at American universities and one local woman brutalized in the diplomatic quarter of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The bodies piled up on a bus in Somalia, at a mosque and video club in Cameroon, at a shrine in Saudi Arabia. All that carnage was in a single week — a single week of summer in what feels like an endless stream of terror attacks.
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Who Killed the Arab Spring?
On May 19, 2011, President Barack Obama stood in the ornate Ben Franklin Room on the State Department’s 8th floor and called for a broad change of approach in America’s engagement with the Middle East, making clear that he backed political and economic reform. Responding to the dizzying first six months of the Arab Spring, Obama reiterated America’s enduring security interests, yet acknowledged that grievances had accrued among ordinary people that “only feed the suspicion that has festered for years that the United States pursues our interests at their expense.”
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If It Were My Home
The lottery of birth is responsible for much of who we are. If you were not born in the country you were, what would your life be like? Would you be the same person?
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In China, the state decides who can come back from the dead
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama attends a prayer ceremony at Tsuglakhang temple in Dharmsala, India, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015. China’s ruling Communist Party has in recent months been tightening controls on who can call themselves the living rebirth of historical Buddhist holy men. The effort appears to be part of a broad attempt to control what happens after the death of the current Dalai Lama. Ashwini Bhatia Associated Press file.
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Kerry determines IS group committing genocide in Iraq, Syria
The Obama administration on Thursday formally concluded the Islamic State group is committing genocide against Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria, a declaration long sought by Congress and human rights organizations but likely to change little in the conflict against the extremists. The determination, for which Congress had set a Thursday deadline, does not obligate the United States to take additional action against IS militants and does not...
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Why doesn’t Obama seem to listen to Syria experts?
The Obama administration’s apparent resistance to rethinking its policies on Syria, despite rapidly changing events on the ground, sparks a number of challenging questions: When the basic thrust of policy seems immovable, irrespective of events on the ground, how should researchers respond? Should influencing policy be the animating objective of policy research? Who exactly should our work be directed to?
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China rubberstamps two-child policy
It's official. From January 1, 2016 China will allow two children for every couple. Chinese lawmakers rubber-stamped the new legislation Sunday during a session of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, which governs the country's laws, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. "The state advocates that one couple shall be allowed to have two children," according to the newly revised Law on Population and Family Planning.
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Buried in the darkness of 2015: the seeds of hope for a better 2016
The year that’s past was a season of fear. Next to the onslaught of anxiety, hope and optimism seem powerless, if not downright foolish. As a motivating force, hope is more fragile, harder to inspire, easier to lose sight of. Fear is a powerful motivator and easy to conjure – but only hope can lead us into a better world.
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What Every Climate-Concerned Billionaire Should Do
The idea is simple. People burn fossil fuels. The fuels emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. If that carbon lingers in the air, it causes greenhousing and contributes to global warming; if it gets absorbed by the ocean, it acidifies the water and wrecks the marine food chain. So the key is to put less carbon into the atmosphere. Most policies, accordingly, focus on preventing people from burning fuels. But what if the fossil fuels were never...
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Russian Airstrikes Inside Syria Include Areas Controlled By Western-Backed Rebels
Moscow claims Syrian-piloted Russian jets are targeting ISIS but Syrian activists post video showing attacks in areas controlled by rebels opposed to Bashar al-Assad.
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China Will Pony Up $3.1 Billion to Help Poor Countries Fight Climate Change
China followed up its promise Friday to create the world's largest cap-and-trade program with yet another significant climate policy announcement: It will commit to spending $3.1 billion to help developing countries slash their greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change. China's financial commitment, along with its new carbon market, are part of a comprehensive package of climate measures...
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Breaking: Massive explosion just hit another city in China
The blast comes just weeks after another major devastated the Chinese city of Tianjin.
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We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year
It may feel like Christmas comes earlier each year, but there’s a less joyful day that really is moving closer on the calendar. Earth Overshoot Day is the day when—according to estimates—the total combined consumption of all human activity on Earth in a year overtakes the planet’s ability to generate those resources for that year. How is it measured?
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