Society

Following the protests in Brussels by farmers from across the European Union (EU), the European Commission offered some concessions to the agricultural sector — but said it will not scale back its plan to cut 90% of greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, Reuters reported. The new commission plan drops the requirement to reduce…
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Recent internal records reveal fossil fuel companies and the plastics industry peddled the myth of viable plastic recycling for over 50 years, despite privately acknowledging that existing recycling methods were inadequate, according to a new report from the Center for Climate Integrity. Plastic makers and petrochemical industry…
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Running alongside the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference, the WEF launched its inaugural TradeTech Forum, which “aims to be a groundbreaking platform for facilitating global innovation in the realm of international trade technologies.” In his opening address, WEF president Borge Brende praised India’s digital ID…
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“I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.” – Audrey Hepburn “If you can dance and be free and not be embarrassed, you can rule the world.” – Amy Poehler “If you’re focusing on what you…
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Technology and other modern conveniences have become so ingrained in our daily lives that most people can hardly live without them. This is not the case with the Amish, as they still live largely as they did 300 years ago. Their lifestyle, which prohibits the ownership of computers and relies only in limited cases on electricity…
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There are rumours that swirl in the writing world: all the publishing houses of the UK now have teams dedicated to seeking out and commissioning books that will feed into a national sense of guilt about the country’s history. I couldn’t guess what the next big remorse theme would be: the opium trade. It was with a sense of…
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End-to-end encrypted messaging apps are fantastic privacy tools that secure your communications and protect them from third-party spying. However, in certain circumstances they can pose a potential privacy concern because they share your Internet Protocol (IP) address with others. This privacy issue is not limited to end-to-end…
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In 1972, animal behaviorist John Calhoun built a mouse paradise with beautiful buildings and limitless food. He introduced eight mice to the population. Two years later, the mice had created their own apocalypse. Here’s why. Universe 25 was a giant box designed to be a rodent utopia. The trouble was, this utopia did not have a…
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A 21-year-old computer-science student has won a global contest to read the first text inside a carbonized scroll from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, which had been unreadable since a volcanic eruption in AD 79 — the same one that buried nearby Pompeii. The breakthrough could open up hundreds of texts from the only intact library…
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A recent report revealed that nearly 70%, or more than two-thirds, of active-duty soldiers in the United States are within the overweight or obese ranges of the body mass index (BMI). This is according to Courtney Manning, a national security research fellow at the American Security Project (ASP) think tank, which released a report on…
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