Politics
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If I could have everyone read just one thing about climate change policy…
…this could be it. None of the contents are new or original, but in this longer-than-an-average-op-ed, Bjorn Lomborg distills all the elements of the argument he has been making for …
Culture
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Pussy Galore in the new Bond
The meh news of the day: Since Daniel Craig announced he was standing down as James Bond, debate has raged whether the next 007 should be a woman, or black. …
History
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Happy 400 years of Solidarity, America!
Aurelia Pucinski, a justice of the Illinois Appellate Court, remembers a little know incident of the early American history, whose anniversary we are celebrating today: Original records of the Jamestown …
Books
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Monte Cassino, great-grandfather and a bear
On May 18, the day Australia goes to the polls, on the other side of the world we will be commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of the bloodiest …
WTF
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Happy birthday to a broken escalator
Probably not as funny as residents of Toronto creating an impromptu roadside shrine to a dead raccoon, whom the city council workers have not cleaned up for 12 hours, but in …
Love
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Nice guys finish last
A new study, which looks at the satisfaction and longevity of relationships, suggests that nice guys (and gals) finish last – or finish first by finishing last (their relationships, that …
