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Although Brasilia was planned in excruciating detail to be a model modern city, by 1980 around 3/4 people lived in settlements that hadn’t been planned for/anticipated while planned parts of the new capital had only half their intended population

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In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

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My favourite thing about these meme is that it also highlights that whilst the UK is far from perfect we are also one of, if not the, best integrated country in Europe.

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this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

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a NIMBY who fights needed housing while their home value has nearly tripled is actually paying themself to speak

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it is absolutely true that lincoln tried not to get too far afield of public opinion on slavery, calibrating his positions and actions according to what he thought was the mainstream. but it is important to note that at no point did lincoln ever disavow or deny his sincerely held antislavery views

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france... notoriously anti-union... builds far better things for far less money. youtu.be/X3fuoiii734?...

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A few people who were not — according to this definition — white British: - Winston Churchill - George V - Cliff Richard - George Orwell - Isambard Brunel - JRR Tolkien - Boris Johnson

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Serms like this breaks GDPR law.

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Politicians shouldn't rage-bait chart geeks. on.ft.com/4jrlz8h

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Kids study the humanities, learn the arts and one day you might be able to stage the most perfect contemporary reproduction of the Sack of Troy

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They're literally doing the meme

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Cancer Research UK today published a report which highlights changes in cancer survival rates over the last 50 years. Many headlines (like this one from the Guardian) have chosen to report the ‘doubling of cancer survival rates’ since the 1970s. But that's misleading... 1/18

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"Andrey M.... said he was instructed to deliver prefabricated homes to the Irkutsk region. But after parking near a café in Usolye-Sibirskoye, drones unexpectedly began launching from the back of his vehicle." united24media.com/latest-news/...

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Too many books? I think what you mean is not enough bookshelves.

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It isn't possible to design a school system where everyone leaves with the skills needed for the workplace because they're all going to do different jobs. Workplace training needs to be done by employers.

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(Was new to me)

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Have the police effectively decriminalised cannabis already? This week’s column, free to read 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/9efb...

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the founding principles of the Southern gentry were rape, lying about rape, and threatening to kill anyone who called you a rapist.

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Overheard: Apparently Zelenskyy had some cards, and he didn’t need a suit.

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Maybe it's because I'm a third child, but I find this argument bizarre. Who knows how well off they'll be in 15 years? Maybe you'll lose your job. Maybe a parent will need care. Maybe Liz Truss will double your mortgage costs. And maybe you'll make bad choices. But that's hardly the child's fault.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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I'm fascinated by how the responses to this demonstrate BlueSky's filter bubble. When developing rockets, tests should often result in explosions, or you aren't testing enough. Now, some of SpaceX's recent tests have been exceptionally dismal failures, but that doesn't change this premise.

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Markets are pricing US debt default probability as nearer to BBB+, far below its official credit rating and alongside Greece and Italy Striking graph from Apollo's Torsten Slok www.apolloacademy.com/us-sovereign...

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Tho the best quote about Finsbury park attacker

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No surprise, smart public policy regarding cars and pricing works. Really well. That’s why those who don’t want such things to work try so hard to kill the good ideas before they’re ever implemented.

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Every other large city in North America right now:

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Britain has no idea - in terms of its self-image, not economists obviously - what economy it actually has One of my favourite facts to point out is: at over £8bn annually, the videogames industry is more than twice as valuable to the UK economy as fishing and steel combined.

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If you work in psychology in a research area without Registered Reports, you will see that the main hypotheses in papers are almost always supported. If your peers publish Registered Reports, you will also have access to null results, which should be very common. doi.org/10.1177/2515...

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A reminder, from a century ago, that “tying R&D to government objectives” pretty much guarantees a lower return on investment. 🧪 “If Government laboratories had been operating in the Stone Age we should have wonderful stone axes but no-one would have discovered metals!”

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12 homes will become 140 through emergent behaviour in the market thanks to planning reforms! Legacy planners claim that lot amalgamation is only possible through micromanagement—and time and time again we learn: that just isn’t true!

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Prepping a presentation of marquee for the ggextenders group My examples always ends up being horrible dataviz advice...🙈

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