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Strongly influenced by Quakers 175 years ago, the Seneca Falls Convention kicked off the fight for women’s suffrage in the USA ~humanities.history Article 1228 words 15 votes
Professor of medicine claims that curing America’s loneliness epidemic would make us healthier, fitter and less likely to abuse drugs ~health fitness Article 992 words, published Jul 14 2023 16 votes
A new, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass James Webb – goodbye mirrors, hello diffractive lenses ~space astronomy Article 1161 words, published Jul 12 2023 15 votes
The earth might hold huge stores of natural hydrogen – and prospectors are already scouring South Australia for it ~enviro energy Article 976 words, published Jul 4 2023 21 votes
Meltwater is hydro-fracking Greenland's ice sheet through millions of hairline cracks – destabilizing its internal structure ~enviro water.melt climate change Article 1213 words, published Jun 29 2023 10 votes
The actual danger from AI is mostly not what is getting talked about ~tech Article 1064 words 46 votes
Watered-down LGBTQ ‘understanding’ bill shows how far Japan’s parliament is out of step with its society – and history ~lgbt history Article 1180 words 20 votes
Intimate and immense – remembering Kaija Saariaho, one of the greatest composers of our time ~music classical Article 935 words, published Jun 6 2023 7 votes
Europe has lost over half a billion birds in forty years. The single biggest cause? Pesticides and fertilisers ~enviro pollution Article 1005 words 18 votes
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What Denmark's dead hedgehogs tell us about their lives – and how we can help them ~enviro conservation Article 995 words 3 votes
Join the Counterforce: Thomas Pynchon’s postmodern epic Gravity’s Rainbow at fifty ~books science fiction literature fiction.historical Article 2561 words 6 votes
Globetrotting Black nutritionist Flemmie P. Kittrell revolutionized early childhood education and illuminated ‘hidden hunger’ ~humanities.history Article 1453 words 2 votes
To prepare for future pandemics, we can learn from the OECD's top two performers: New Zealand and Iceland ~health medicine Article 8 votes
Are Brazilians Latinos? What their identity struggle tells us about race in America ~life Article 1226 words, published Dec 21 2016 5 votes
Young Australians just won a historic human rights case against an enormous coal mine ~enviro Article 1123 words, published Nov 25 2022 5 votes
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 ~enviro climate change Article 6 votes
Did Sweden's controversial COVID strategy pay off? In many ways it did – but it let the elderly down ~health healthcare Article 965 words 10 votes
Reading to improve language skills? Focus on fiction rather than non-fiction ~humanities.languages Article 944 words, published May 9 2022 6 votes
Why Denmark is voting on its defence relationship with the EU – and what it says about democracy in Europe ~misc politics Article 931 words 5 votes
I no longer grade my students’ work – and I wish I had stopped sooner ~humanities education Article 1317 words 18 votes
Films made for Netflix look more like TV shows — here’s the technical reason why ~movies Article 1090 words, published Jul 7 2021 12 votes
Squid Game and the “untranslatable”: The debate around subtitles ~tv Article 1084 words, published Oct 14 2021 15 votes
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? ~life Article 936 words 15 votes
The success of Iceland's 'four-day week' trial has been greatly overstated ~life work Article 866 words 13 votes
Rights of nature: How granting a river personhood could help protect it ~enviro conservation Article 1159 words, published Jun 3 2021 5 votes
The United States is at risk of an armed anti-police insurgency ~misc politics Article 1261 words, published Apr 15 2021 20 votes
How we discovered a hidden world of fungi inside the world’s biggest seed bank ~science biology Article 8 votes
I looked at 100 ads for menstrual products spanning 100 years — shame and secrecy prevailed ~health Article 1322 words 26 votes
Ancient leaves preserved under a mile of Greenland’s ice – and lost in a freezer for years – hold lessons about climate change ~science Article 6 votes
A billion years from now, a lack of oxygen will wipe out life on Earth ~enviro Article 804 words 5 votes
The long history of warrior turtles, from ancient myth to warships to teenage mutants ~humanities.history Article 1812 words, published Feb 11 2021 9 votes
Children with same-sex parents do better at school than their peers ~lgbt Article 1113 words 11 votes
Environmental change may have played a role at the dawn of Egyptian history ~humanities.history Article 1224 words 10 votes
MacKenzie Scott’s $5.8 billion commitment to social and economic justice is a model for other donors ~finance Article 837 words 7 votes
Colorado voters will decide on Nov. 3 whether the state should reintroduce gray wolves after a nearly eighty-year absence ~enviro conservation Article 1201 words 8 votes
2020 Nobel Prize in physics awarded for work on black holes – an astrophysicist explains the trailblazing discoveries ~space astronomy Article 812 words 9 votes