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iPhones dominated the devices used for flickr uploads over the past year, but the most popular 'proper' camera may surprise you

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English councils and planning set to be transformed under ambitious devolution plan – an expert explains

The UK government has outlined its plans for English devolution and local government reform in a landmark white paper. These are some of the most consequential reforms of recent times, signalling a long-term settlement on how England is governed. English devolution bridges two of the government’s biggest challenges: how to…

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“I Needed to Be Doing This”: When Writers Uncover Family History

Tanya Talaga and Sadiya Ansari discuss ancestors, the colonial project, and intuitive pings

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A New Study Shows That Dogs Living Near Chornobyl Are Genetically Different To Others In The World

Stray dogs living in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone manage to evolve and adapt to the toxic environment so well that they end up thriving in it. The post A New Study Shows That Dogs Living Near Chornobyl Are Genetically Different To Others In The World first appeared on Bored Panda.

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A ‘TV Garden?’ How video artist Nam June Paik anticipated pressing environmental questions

In a world facing an ecological crisis, creating a new relationship with nature has become essential.

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Lady’s Kids In Their 30s Find It Hilarious That Her 24YO Fiancé Expects Them To Call Him Dad

Guy who is a decade older than his mom’s fiancé finds it extremely funny that the other man wants to be called dad. The post Lady’s Kids In Their 30s Find It Hilarious That Her 24YO Fiancé Expects Them To Call Him Dad first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Why These Workers Want a Lower Minimum Wage

Eliminating the tipped wage in Washington, D.C., has led to higher prices and fewer restaurant jobs.

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Get chronic UTIs? Future treatments may add more bacteria to your bladder to beat back harmful microbes

Millions of people in the U.S. and around the world suffer from urinary tract infections every year. Some groups are especially prone to chronic UTIs, including women, older adults and some veterans.

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Frybread: Comfort food or colonial byproduct?

Join us for a live podcast recording at the Canadian launch of RUIN THEIR CROPS ON THE GROUND — on Thursday, Nov. 14 from 7-9 p.m. at Another Story Bookshop in Toronto. Free to attend. RSVP here. In conversation with Vinita Srivastava, host of the Don’t Call Me Resilient podcast.

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Labour’s first budget: redistribution away from the rich after over a decade of Conservative rule

Labour’s first budget in 14 years appears to have avoided the Halloween nightmares that many predicted. Yes, the overall tax burden is at its highest level since 1948, but this budget’s tax and spend distribution is such that it spreads both the pain and the benefit. Most of the pain…

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Does Britain have a working-class parliament? What Labour’s election win means for representation

After the 2024 election, the British parliament looks very different, with a large Labour majority for the first time in more than a decade. While we don’t yet have a full analysis of the socioeconomic background of the new crop of MPs, the Sutton Trust calculated that 23% were privately…

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Hidden women of history: 19th-century author Augusta Drane was an intellectual ‘warrior nun’. Was she queer?

Augusta Theodosia Drane, a 19th-century English religious leader, published works including poetry, histories, essays and biographies. Impressively, Drane wrote her two-volume life of St Catherine of Siena in a matter of six weeks. The book was the most complete life of the saint in any language and was translated into…

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Assisted dying bill enters parliament – how likely is it to become law?

Labour backbench MP Kim Leadbeater has introduced a bill in the House of Commons that aims to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales.

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Ray McCauley, the bodybuilder turned pastor who introduced the prosperity gospel to a new South Africa

News of the passing of South African pastor Ray McCauley on 8 October was met by a flood of tributes from across the spectrum of society, from President Cyril Ramaphosa to everyday worshippers at the Rhema Bible Church. McCauley established the influential church in 1985. It has since attracted a…

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What are the political consequences of austerity? A history lesson for Keir Starmer

The British government has argued that a black hole exists in the public finances to the tune of £22 billion in this financial year. It claims that dealing with this will involve a period of fiscal restraint, which usually means spending cuts.

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Bunyip birds and brolgas: how can we better protect species important to Indigenous people?

Kamilaroi Country lies in far northwest New South Wales, past Tamworth and crossing over the Queensland border. Here, the bunyip bird (Australasian bittern, Botaurus poiciloptilus), and the brolga (Grus rubicunda or burraalga in Kamilaroi) have been part of life, lore, spirit, dance and culture with Country for thousands of generations.

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Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy believes ‘extensive reading’ makes an accomplished woman. What else does reading mean in her work?

What does it mean to be a reader in Jane Austen’s novels? And what does it mean to read them? Susan Allen Ford, longtime editor of the Jane Austen Society of North America’s journals, confesses to perhaps 25 years of fascination with her subject.

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Woman Cooks For Her SIL Every Day, Gets Complaints About The Meals Being Too “Bourgeois”

Family isn't just for having dinner on holidays; they also look out for each other when times get tough. The post Woman Cooks For Her SIL Every Day, Gets Complaints About The Meals Being Too “Bourgeois” first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Supermoons are boring – here are 5 things in the sky worth your time

A supermoon may sound exciting, but it’s a modest coincidence.

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Not one, but two meteor showers are about to peak – here’s how to catch the stellar show

On any clear night, if you gaze skywards long enough, chances are you’ll see a meteor streaking through the sky. Some nights, however, are better than others.

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Can Keir Starmer reset the UK’s relations with Europe?

By all accounts, Keir Starmer’s first UK-based foray onto the international stage as prime minister was a success. Last week’s European Political Community gathered nearly 50 heads of government from across Europe to discuss critical issues, ticking all the right boxes in organisation, tone and foreign policy goals.

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Stepping stones for wildlife: how linking up isolated habitats can help nature thrive in our cities

Imagine you’re a fairywren living in a patch of scrub behind a schoolyard in the suburbs. It’s been pretty nice so far, but a recent increase in neighbourhood cats and the council’s insect control tactics mean it’s time to look for somewhere safer to live.

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Lucy, discovered 50 years ago in Ethiopia, stood just 3.5 feet tall − but she still towers over our understanding of human origins

In 1974, on a survey in Hadar in the remote badlands of Ethiopia, U.S. paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and graduate student Tom Gray found a piece of an elbow joint jutting from the dirt in a gully. It proved to be the first of 47 bones of a single individual –…

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A British ‘supermajority’ is nonsense – but a Labour landslide still has consequences

In a somewhat unusual tactic for a governing party seeking re-election, senior Conservative figures have all but conceded defeat two weeks before polling day. Instead of campaigning on their plans for another term in government, cabinet ministers, from the prime minister down, have taken to warning of the dangers of…

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D-day: how world leaders have made commemorations part of their diplomatic playbook

The 2024 celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of D-day are the latest in a long line of commemorations in honour of the allied landings in Normandy, which began on June 6 1944.

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