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Two Countries Built A Joint Bridge. They Messed It Up.

10 Apr 2026 ✪ Members first on 9 April 2026 Go to go.ubigi.com/7XbM05 and use the code WHATONEARTH for a 10% discount on your Ubigi eSIM! Either way, you join me today in two countries. One’s Swiss, one’s German, and … Continue reading

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How this tiny country became the best at night trains in Europe

10 Apr 2026 #PlanetA #Austra #Trains As Europe’s rail giants scrapped their sleeper cars, one tiny country went all‑in. Austria’s ÖBB has built the continent’s largest night train network, carrying millions across borders while everyone else hit the brakes. Here’s … Continue reading

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US vs China: Who is leading the race to the Moon? – Asia Specific podcast, BBC World Service

8 Apr 2026 Asia Specific Nasa’s Artemis II lunar mission shows a renewed US focus on the Moon, but it’s not the only major power seeking to send a crew there. Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 https://bbc.in/3VyyriMContinue reading

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How did English come to have different words for “ape” and “monkey”?

Photo by Leslie Low / Unsplash The etymology of our words for living primates gives some insight into how common ideas adjusted to new scientific knowledge. JOHN HAWKS JAN 06, 2019 In scientific English, today we often distinguish between “monkeys” … Continue reading

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why do we even HAVE the word “monkey”? #linguistics

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It’s brilliant to see this area without any scaffolding on it, now for the rest of Spinningfields to be sorted as well as the bridge!

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This 5,000 year old burial mound in Newport, Wales, predates both the great Pyramids and the standing stones of Stonehenge

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The Brutalist Utopian Vision of the Future

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linguistically, you’re not that mysterious

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We Went Inside CERN… Something Bigger is Happening

1 Apr 2026 Mark Thomson is the newly appointed director general of CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. CERN is the world’s biggest particle physics laboratory, and its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) smashes particles together at almost the speed of light to … Continue reading

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