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Beautiful advertisement for the Olympic Games in Tokyo from one of the French canals
France's 18-year-olds given €300 culture pass
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France's 18-year-olds given €300 culture pass
French teens can use the funds for cinema tickets, musical instruments or to buy books and videos.
Download free public domain paintings, posters and illustrations
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Artvee
Browse and download high-resolution, public domain Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations and Posters.
A century ago Ludwig Wittgenstein changed philosophy
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The Economist
A century ago Ludwig Wittgenstein changed philosophy for ever
Written in the trenches, his “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” still baffles and inspires | Books & arts
Despite social pressure, boys and girls still prefer gender-typical toys
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Big Think
Despite social pressure, boys and girls still prefer gender-typical toys
Fifty years of research on children's toy preferences shows that kids generally prefer toys oriented toward their own gender.
Rich people do have trouble understanding what it's like to be poor
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Salon
Rich people actually do have trouble understanding what it's like to be poor
A recent study shows that people with power embrace a "choice mindset" — and apply it to those with fewer resources
He was executed in 2017. Someone else's DNA has been found on the murder weapon
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The Cicada's Love Affair with Prime Numbers (2013)
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The New Yorker
The Cicada’s Love Affair With Prime Numbers
Any cicada that tries to break the pattern is simply taking her offspring’s life into her own hands…
Ant parasites that prolong the life of their host
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The Atlantic
The Never-Aging Ants With a Terrible Secret
A parasite gives its hosts the appearance of youth, and an unmatched social power in the colony.
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Giant honey bees (Apis dorsata) make unsheltered nests, so they have evolved many complex defenses. Here, they flick their abdomens and wings in unison to produce a mesmerizing 'shimmer' that confuses and deters predatory wasps
Scientists rediscover lost coffee species suited to a warmer climate
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Scientists rediscover lost coffee species suited to a warmer climate | CBC News
In dense tropical forests in Sierra Leone, scientists have rediscovered a coffee species not seen in the wild in decades — a plant they say may help secure the future of this valuable commodity that has been imperiled by climate change.
Canada declares plastics toxic, paving the way for restrictions
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Mother Jones
Canada Declares Plastics Toxic, Paving the Way for Restrictions
“I think the days of waiting for recycling to work are over,” notes one environmentalist.
Deadly Fungi Are the Newest Emerging Microbe Threat All over the World
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Scientific American
Deadly Fungi Are the Newest Emerging Microbe Threat All Over the World
These pathogens already kill 1.6 million people every year, and we have few defenses against them