Places, Culture & Travel: 8 of 10
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Japan Has Millions of Empty Houses. Want to Buy One for $25,000?
With a shrinking population and more than 10 million abandoned properties, the country is straining to match houses with curious buyers.
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Romantically Kissing Our Lovers Might Not Be The Fashion We Thought It Was
A new deep dive into humanity's history of romantic kissing has revealed that locking lips has a more complex story than some researchers have proposed.
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‘Denying our humanity’: how Santa Monica decimated a thriving Black community
African Americans helped build the iconic beach town, historian Alison Rose Jefferson details as California weighs reparations
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Pompeii archaeologists discover 'pizza' painting
Experts say the flatbread depicted in the 2,000 year-old fresco may be a precursor to the Italian dish.
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How Will China Answer The Hardest AI Question Of All?
There have been numerous stories about the new generation of AI chatbots lying when asked questions. This is rightly perceived as a big issue for the technology if it is to become routinely used an…
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In Norway, the Electric Vehicle Future Has Already Arrived
About 80 percent of new cars sold in Norway are battery-powered. As a result, the air is cleaner, the streets are quieter and the grid hasn’t collapsed. But problems with unreliable chargers persist.
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Paper trail
Canada is one of the biggest exporters of recyclable paper to India, but along with that paper comes plastic waste — lots of it.
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The Dutch Textile Trade Project
This project aims to understand the circulation of globally-sourced textiles on Dutch ships around the world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by examining data drawn from trade records alongside samples of textiles and visual culture depicting textiles in use.
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By Balenciaga meme is an amalgam of AI, Fashion & Pop Culture
One of the emergent viral memes worming it’s way into video stream suggestions across the internet is the “By Balenciaga” series that has rapidly evolved over the past 2 months to…
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Kukeri : How a Bulgarian Village Dances Evil Spirits Away
Once a year, the Bulgarian tradition of Kukeri unites a small village as residents wear intricate masks and costumes and dance at night. Killian Lassablière chronicles the practice in his short documentary.
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Oldest Known Neanderthal Engravings Were Sealed in a Cave for 57,000 Years
The art was created long before modern humans inhabited France's Loire Valley
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Used clothing from Europe: Trash or treasure for Africa? | DW News
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How Finland Is Teaching a Generation to Spot Misinformation
The Nordic country is testing new ways to teach students about propaganda. Here’s what other countries can learn from its success.
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U.S. to restore more bison herds on tribal lands by tapping Indigenous knowledge
U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland says her agency will work to restore more large bison herds to Native American lands.
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Short selling Adani: how an obscure US firm profited from triggering the Indian giant's price plunge
Activist short selling is certainly controversial. But it’s not necessarily illegal nor unethical.
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'Putin's chef' confirms plans for Chatham Islands in cryptic email to Stuff
The Russian oligarch boss of the Wagner private military company, known as “Putin’s chef”, has told Stuff in a cryptic email his group has plans for the Chatham Islands.
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Upper Canada Playhouse premieres new Norm Foster comedy, Moving In
After a winter and spring season of the live concerts Glory Days, Across the Pond and Honky Tonk Angels, Morrisburg, Ontario’s Upper Canada Playhouse is moving on to Moving In, the world premiere of a brand new comedy by Norm Foster, running June 8 to 25.
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No Mow May blamed for rise in hedgehog injuries
A hedgehog hospital owner says “heartbreaking” strimming injuries have doubled as long grass is cut.
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Origins of masturbation traced back to primates 40m years ago
Behaviour predates humans by tens of millions of years but evolutionary purpose is less clear, scientists say
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I tried Delta's new free inflight Wi-Fi. Here's how fast it was
Delta's new free inflight internet service is better and more stable than earlier services and free to all SkyMiles members.