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News reports confirm that the great Roberta Flack has died at age 88. This is the first track from her first LP, recorded this week in February 1969. She was something else. R.I.P. Coda: That's Detroiter Rob Carter laying down that killer groove. www.youtube.com/watch?v=whGE...

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"Replacement of Marcus Bokkerink as head of the Competition & Markets Authority, on the grounds [he] was too committed to competition, is the reverse of what the UK needs if it wants to be a growing, high-productivity, economy." Labour confusing businesses with markets. www.ft.com/content/037a...

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A study of ancient DNA from people who lived in Europe between 1700 and 45,000 years ago suggests that 63 per cent of them had dark skin and 8 per cent had pale skin, with the rest somewhere in between.

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Japanese artist Kumi Yamashita winds a single black thread around a grid of nails on a wooden board to create intricate portraits #womensart

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This is very good:

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RIP Muhsin Hendricks, probably the world's first openly gay imam, who ran a mosque that was a safe haven for LGBT+ and other vulnerable Muslims in Cape Town

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Quite the juxtaposition: JD Vance saying the threat to Europe is internal, when Russia attacked Chernobyl with a drone.

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🧑‍🍳 👌🏻

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Third term rumblings start here.

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These guys are brilliant. I have found a complete network of conflict financiers with the help of this tool.

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Just laying down a bet to myself that Trump will praise Rhodesia before the end of the year.

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When and how did modern humans, Homo sapiens, spread out of Africa and around the world? www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/whe...

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DOJ "will prioritize investigations related to foreign bribery that facilitates the criminal operations of cartels and transnational criminal organizations." Prepare for a new golden era of foreign bribery. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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The OCCRP is much more than just reporters: they make investigative infrastructure to support newsrooms. The true impact of the OCCRP is way larger and grander than the stories that have their name on it.

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NEW -- #Trump's global aid freeze has cut the salaries paid to many of the prison & camp guards responsible for securing 9,500 #ISIS militants & ~40,000 associated women/kids in northeast #Syria. Many are no longer turning up for work.

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Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

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I want a long-read on Trump and Greenland.who had the idea first, where did Trump hear about it first, and who was in the room then and since? I mean, the idea has caused a rift between the US and Denmark, the most Atlanticist European member of NATO, so… WTF?

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NEW How Harry and Watson forced News Group Newspapers to admit wrongdoing Why the circumstances show it was NGN wanting to avoid a public trial—and not the costs risk on the claimants—that brought this case to its end By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

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This paper by the late, great Nick Crafts, on competition and productivity in the UK, well worth a read: cepr.org/voxeu/column...

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We keep hearing about masculinity from the Zuckerbergs of the world-- this woman has shown more courage in this 60-second clip than any of the tech billionaires have shown in recent memory as they grovel at Trump's feet.

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Why do wrong-doing benefit claimants need special rather than general punishments? Why not same for tax dodgers? And when someone has been caught doing cash-in-hand shifts do you really want to make it impossible for them to find a proper job & get off benefits? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Defamation cases don’t always end in favor of the truth. Remember, Amber Heard lost one for saying “I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change.” The response to the trial alone proved the veracity of her statement and she still lost.

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Office Space, but as art-house cinema…

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Hungarian artist Agnes Herczeg creates intricate, figurative lace artworks #womensart

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Beira, Mozambique

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my fav guy of this type is Srinivas Ramanujan, who got invited to Trinity at the demand of GH Hardy because he sent him the greatest cold email of all time and had to be coached on how to retrofit his solutions to proofs because "my family goddess appeared in a vision and solved it" wouldnt cut it

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Just think, Neanderthals, Denisovans and Hobbits (Homo floresiensis) would have been amongst the last ones to see this comet…

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This is why it’s (metaphorically) criminal to not price carbon properly (and in fact subsidise fossil fuels in many countries, perhaps giving a -ve carbon price.) Imagine everyone responding like this… (Yes I realise all the political reasons why carbon isn’t priced properly).