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Tom Pettinger, University of WarwickThe dire state of the planet’s health was unambiguously demonstrated by the UN’s climate body, the…
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International Coffee Day feels very different this year. Introduced by the International Coffee Organization (ICO) on October 1 2015 to…
Yixian Sun, University of Bath Chinese President Xi Jinping recently announced at the UN General Assembly that China “will…
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Business Insider: Facebook overpaid the FTC by nearly $5 billion to ‘protect Zuckerberg’ and ‘make his problems go away’ after…
A lot of the energy from fossil fuels is wasted. First, extraction, refining, and transport of fossil fuels account for…
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The US spent $2 trillion in Afghanistan – and for what? Personnel were evacuated from the U.S. embassy in Kabul…
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Instead of asking how universities might benefit from shifting courses online permanently, we ought to ask how students might suffer…
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