Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.
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Month: July 2020
Bats: The hunt for the origins of SARS-CoV-2 will look beyond China
The virus may have been born in South-East Asia. An intriguing observation: the low incidence of covid-19 in South-East Asia, particularly in Vietnam despite no lockdowns.
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‘It took genius to chisel these buttocks’ – the top 10 bottoms in art, chosen by our critic
They are ‘the founding curves of the Renaissance’. As Yorkshire Museum calls on collections worldwide to display their best behinds to boost attendance after coronavirus, we name our favourites.
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Climate change: Polar bears could be lost by 2100
Scientists say we have time to save polar bears if we act now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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App Lets You Destress By Screaming Into Icelandic Wilderness
2020 has been a stressful year. Iceland wants to help. A group developed an app that will let you record and broadcast a scream, pent up by the pandemic, into the Icelandic wilderness.
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Cheap, popular and it works: Ireland’s contact-tracing app success
Irish-made app has more than 1.3m downloads, in stark contrast to the UK’s efforts
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Incredible new species of walking sharks discovered in Australia
Scientists documented four new species of walking shark that they say have developed the ability to walk very recently. Walking sharks use their fins to physically walk along the seafloor rather th…
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The women who sleep with a stranger to save their marriage
Some Muslim women believe they must marry a new man before they can return to their first husband.
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How Taiwan beat the coronavirus
Taiwan has reported only seven deaths so far from Covid-19. Everything is mostly reopened, and the only signs of Covid-19 are the frequent temperature checks and the expectation to wear masks on the subway. Here's what it did right.
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Japanese capsule carrying pieces of asteroid Ryugu will land on Earth Dec. 6
The landing site is in the Outback of South Australia.
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