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World Longest Power Submarine Cable To Connect $25BN Wind Solar Complex in Morocco To The UK Grid
British company Xlinks, has announced plans to build 10.5 Giga Watts of wind and solar parks in Morocco and sell the generated power in the UK. According to the company’s CEO, Simon Morrish, in an interview with PV magazine, this … Continue reading
Rail services to come under unified state control @BBC News live 🔴 BBC
It’s Thursday 20 May 2021. Our top stories this morning 0:00 Sweeping reforms aim to boost train travel The government has announced the biggest shake-up in the UK’s railways since privatisation in the mid-1990s. Get the full story 👉 https://bbc.in/3u0mrXP%5B…%5D
Why the British Rail Modernisation Plan Failed
Back to trains, and for this week we discuss one of Britain’s most audacious but ultimately futile projects to revitalise the network in the wake of World War II. However, rather than undertaking a comprehensive rebuild of the network, British … Continue reading
Why Your Brain Loves Feeling Outraged and Punishing People’s Bad Behavior | Molly Crockett
Why Your Brain Loves Feeling Outraged and Punishing People’s Bad Behavior Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Get mad when you read the news these days? It’s more than … Continue reading
A Satirical New Animation by Greenpeace Swamps Boris Johnson in a Gushing Sea of Plastic | Colossal
Greenpeace’s new campaign opens with a single bottle bouncing off Boris Johnson’s head mid-press conference before a waterfall of plastic overwhelms the prime minister and carries him out to the street. The satirical and pressing animation pours the equivalent of … Continue reading
Sleeping Rough in Victorian England (Penny ‘Sit-Ups’, Two-Penny ‘Hangovers’, Four Penny ‘Coffins’)
Horrifying to us today, but Penny ‘Sit-Ups’ and Twopenny ‘Hangovers’ did exist in Victorian England, and offered a solution ‘of sorts’ to the spiralling problem of homelessness, destitution and slums in the metropolis. Poverty in Victorian Britain was rife everywhere, … Continue reading
Colette: The French resistance fighter confronting fascism – Oscars 2021 Short Documentary Winner
Colette has won the Academy Award in the category of best documentary short. This has been made possible by people like you supporting The Guardian’s independent, audience-funded publishing – we and the filmmakers thank you. Help sustain our future by … Continue reading
BBC World Service – The Food Chain, The man taking on fast food
Carlo Petrini is leading a food revolution – one that fights to protect local, traditional ingredients and farming methods in the face of a standardised, industrialised food system. From a protest against a McDonald’s in the heart of Rome, to … Continue reading
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