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Could Brits Replace ‘Fish and Chips’ with ‘Squid and Chips’? | Food Unwrapped

Jimmy heads to Thailand to investigate if media rumours of ‘Squid replacing fish and chips’ would actually be such a bad thing. Food Unwrapped Season 6 Episode 13

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The success of Iceland’s ‘four-day week’ trial has been greatly overstated | The Conversation

Iceland has trialled shorter working hours, but not a four-day week. It almost seems too good to be true: a major trial in Iceland shows that cutting the standard five-day week to four days for the same pay needn’t cost … Continue reading →

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Iceland Tests Out a 4-Day Work Week and Meets Huge Success

Photo: Kristin Wilson   “This study shows that the world’s largest ever trial of a shorter working week in the public sector was by all measures an overwhelming success.”   In an increasingly work-focused society, many people are starting to … Continue reading →

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Squirrel Concert | Heath Jones

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MOTHERLOAD

It is often said that the hardest part of any adventure is getting out the door. Planning and packing are tedious and time consuming. But the moment you cross over the threshold from the distractions of the real world to … Continue reading →

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu – the forgotten immunisation pioneer | The Conversation

Tom Solomon Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, and Professor of Neurology, University of Liverpool, University of Liverpool Wortley Montagu popularised the Turkish practice of ‘variolation’, kickstarting the … Continue reading →

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Siberia: The Melting Permafrost | ARTE Documentary

Russian geophysicist Sergei Zimov together with his son Nikita want to prevent the permafrost from thawing due to climate change. The ice in Siberia contains microbes that once thawed could tilt the world climate beyond our control. ARTE Documentary is … Continue reading →

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Impasto Marks and Thick Dabs of Paint Render Dreamy Landscapes in Rich Layers of Color

To capture the depth of an enchanting river alcove or bucolic landscape, Russian artist Anastasia Trusova works in what she calls “textured graphic impressionism,” a unique style that expresses emotion through detail and volume. She uses a combination of palette knives … Continue reading →

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Simple G in Athens | One World Street & Art

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The Day Dinosaurs Died – 2nd Asteroid Impact Provides More Clues

[…] Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the most famous extinction event and new discoveries about the impacts that caused the demise of dinosaurs Paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/conte… […]

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African Countries NOT IN Africa

How much African ancestry does one have to have in order to be considered black and what percentage has to meet this criteria in order to be considered a black nation? Millions of Africans have been emigrating to Europe and … Continue reading →

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A Rare Sighting of a Glass Octopus Reveals its Nearly Transparent Membrane in Extraordinary Detail

GRACE EBERT On a 34-day expedition around the Phoenix Islands Archipelago, marine scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute captured exceptionally rare footage of the elusive glass octopus. With a speckled, iridescent membrane, the aquatic animal is almost entirely transparent—only its … Continue reading →

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