Join the Counterforce: Thomas Pynchon’s postmodern epic Gravity’s Rainbow at fifty
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Globetrotting Black nutritionist Flemmie P. Kittrell revolutionized early childhood education and illuminated ‘hidden hunger’
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To prepare for future pandemics, we can learn from the OECD's top two performers: New Zealand and Iceland
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Are Brazilians Latinos? What their identity struggle tells us about race in America
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How to deal with holiday stress, Danish-style
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Young Australians just won a historic human rights case against an enormous coal mine
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Copenhagen's failure to meet its 2025 net zero target casts doubt on other major climate plans – pledges to cease contributing to climate change demand greater scrutiny
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Did Sweden's controversial COVID strategy pay off? In many ways it did – but it let the elderly down
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Reading to improve language skills? Focus on fiction rather than non-fiction
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Why Denmark is voting on its defence relationship with the EU – and what it says about democracy in Europe
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I no longer grade my students’ work – and I wish I had stopped sooner
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Films made for Netflix look more like TV shows — here’s the technical reason why
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Squid Game and the “untranslatable”: The debate around subtitles
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It's been ten years since seventy-seven people were massacred in a far-right terror attack in Utøya – ten years on, what has changed in Norway?
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The success of Iceland's 'four-day week' trial has been greatly overstated
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Rights of nature: How granting a river personhood could help protect it
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How we discovered a hidden world of fungi inside the world’s biggest seed bank
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I looked at 100 ads for menstrual products spanning 100 years — shame and secrecy prevailed
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A billion years from now, a lack of oxygen will wipe out life on Earth
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The long history of warrior turtles, from ancient myth to warships to teenage mutants
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Children with same-sex parents do better at school than their peers
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Environmental change may have played a role at the dawn of Egyptian history
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Is political violence ever justifiable?
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Iran’s secular shift: New survey reveals huge changes in religious beliefs
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Black troops were welcome in Britain, but Jim Crow wasn’t: The race riot of one night in June 1943
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The invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities was initially met with skepticism
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Families of children with disabilities face acute challenges under COVID-19
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United States seeks to change the rules for mining the Moon
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Climate explained: Why we need to focus on increased consumption as much as population growth
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Humans coexisted with three-tonne marsupials and lizards as long as cars in ancient Australia
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Science fiction builds mental resiliency in young readers
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We are all niqabis now: Coronavirus masks reveal hypocrisy of face covering bans
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Explorer, navigator, coloniser: Revisit Captain Cook’s legacy with the click of a mouse
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Does JK Rowling’s breathing technique cure the coronavirus? No, it could help spread it
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The bar necessities: Five ways to understand coronavirus graphs
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A major scorecard gives the health of Australia’s environment less than one out of ten
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Iceland didn't hunt any whales in 2019 – and public appetite for whale meat is fading
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From their balloons, the first aeronauts transformed our view of the world
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I’ve studied the ‘weirdos’ Dominic Cummings is talking about – I’m not sure he really understands who they are
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A new study shows an animal’s lifespan is written in the DNA. For humans, it’s thirty-eight years
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Limited eating times could be a new way to fight obesity and diabetes
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Why the government should tax unhealthy foods and subsidise nutritious ones
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Communicating science online increases interest, engagement and access to funds
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Funerals of the future? – Sweden sees sharp rise in burials without ceremony
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‘Like’ isn’t a lazy linguistic filler – the English language snobs need to, like, pipe down
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Lab-grown dairy: The next food frontier
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The internet is rotting – let’s embrace it
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No, Lyme disease is not an escaped military bioweapon, despite what conspiracy theorists say
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What’s really behind baseball’s home run surge?
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Humans aren’t designed to be happy – so stop trying
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