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• The Global Dominance of White People Is Thanks to the Potato
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Born Identity
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• Don’t Call Us Snowflakes — I…
Words of the Year 2017
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• Dictionary.com Chooses ‘Complicit’ as Its Word of the Year
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• Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2017: ‘Feminism’
• Nobody in the UK Has Ever…
Not Forgotten
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• The Forgotten Doughnut Heroines of Wartime
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• The Secret World War II…
Weight for Santa
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• Finally, Proof That Christmas Songs Really Do Your Head I…
Glass of Water for Mr. Humphrys
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• Water Firms Backtrack on Admissions That They Use Divining Rods
• Water Companies Admit to Using ‘Divination’ in Order to Find Leaks
• ‘Dowsing Works,’ Says Humphrys Aft…
When the White Men Leave Their Huts
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• The White Man’s Blunders of ‘Explorer’ Benedict Allen Feed Racist Myths
• What’s the Difference Between Explorers, Anthropologists and Tourists?
• British Explorer Benedict Allen ‘Goes Missing in Jungle’ While Searching for Lost Tribe
• Family of British Explore…
Country Diary 6
• Cracking on With the Walnut Harvest in Suffolk
• Country Diary: Autumn Is Particularly Busy for Red Squirrels of Formby
• Country Diary: Hand-Chiselled Headstones Speak in Rural Accents
• Country Diary: Pines That Went to Passchendaele
Country Diary 5
• Country Diary 1917: Drizzle and the Dripping, Decaying Wood
• Country Diary: The Wood Pigeons Are on the Move
• Country Diary: Kingfisher Inspires Myth
• Country Diary: A Curious Tower Sends Me over the Edge
Safety Zones
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• This Unexpected Country Is Apparently the World’s Safest Place to Travel
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• People in These Places Le…
Spies & Secrets
• Spy Mystery of British Sisters Who Helped Jewish Refugees Flee the Nazis
• Can You Solve It? Secrets of Russian Intelligence
• How a Master Grifter Taught the FBI to Crack Open the Art of the Deal
• The Homemaker Who Helped Solve One of Geometry’s Oldest Puzzles
• The Hidden Meaning of Kid…
Tuition & Intuition
• University of California’s 8 Personal Insight Questions
• Oxford University Releases New Round of Interview Questions
• Solving the Riddle of Getting into Oxford
• ‘We Aren’t Trying to Wrong-Foot Them’: The Truth about the Oxbridge Interview
• A Yale Psychologist’s Sim…
The City Struggle
• These Cities and Countries Will Pay You to Move There
• 25 Record-Breaking Cities: Highest, Cheapest, Oldest and Most Crowded
• What the Happiest Countries on Earth Can Teach Americans
• Why Is Leamington Spa the Happiest Place in Britain?
• Swiss Mountain Village, Population 13, Opens Hotel to Avoid Extinctio…
Embodiment of Art
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• 25 Million Images from 14 Art Institutions to Be Digitized & Put Online in One Huge Scholarly Archive
• 2,000+ Impressionist, Post-Impressionist & Early Modern Paintings Now Free Online, Thanks to the Barnes
• Barnes Collection Online
• When Claude Monet Slashed…
What About Hideki Matsui?
• Racer Snakes, Slug Sex, and Bat Dung Mountains: David Attenborough’s Greatest Moments
• T. Rex Arms, Wiggly Beluga Heads, and Tentacle-Nosed Moles: Smart Evolution Sometimes Looks Stupid
• T. Rex’s Tiny Arms May Have Been Vicious Weapons
• Why T. Rex’s Puny A…
The Plots Thicken
• Farmers Urged to Bury Their Underpants for Better Beef
• Farmers Urged to Bury Their Underpants to Improve Quality of Their Beef
• Scottish Farmer Reveals Why He Soils His Pants on Purpose
• Canadian Man Wakes up to Find Random House Abandoned in His Field
• #FindSue Mystery Solved as Farmer Reveals How Pol…
Country Diary 4
• Top 10 Books about Pastoral Life
• Country Diary: In the Slow Lane of an Old Roman Road
• Country Diary 1917: Passing Companionship in the Wood
• Country Diary: One Spider to Make a Song and Dance About
• Country Diary 1967: Summit Cairn Vandals
• Country Diary: Insects Still Find Sanctuary in the P…
Forgotten Fall Folklore
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• When Halloween Was All Tricks and No Treats
• 7 Superstitions about Cats from around the World
• Spider Mythology from around the World
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Treedom
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• A Biologist Believes That Trees Speak a Language We Can Learn
• The Wisdom of Trees: Walt Whitman on What Our Silent Friends Teach Us about Being Rather Than Seeming
• When You Think of Freedom, Remember the Charter of the Forest, Not the Ma…
Wanderlist 1
• 10 Simple Ways to Travel without Looking Like a Tourist
• Egypt’s Capital Cairo Is Worst Megacity for Women Worldwide, London Best
• Scotland’s Northeastern Scenery Circuit — 500 Miles of Sheep, History and Whisky
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Books to School
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Country Diary 3
• Country Diary 1917: Bungled Wasps’ Nest Theft Leads to Discovery
• Country Diary: Sycamores Create Painterly Clumps of Colour and Shade
• Country Diary: The Air Is Heavy with the Scent of Apples
• Country Diary: Up to the Gills in Toadstool Spores
Country Diary 2
• Country Diary: Stalking Red Deer on the Fringes of the City
• Country Diary 1917: Fungi Flourishes amid Autumn Decay
• Country Diary: Henry III’s Charter Helped This Tree Survive to a Ripe Old Age
• Country Diary: The Autumn Run Is a Bruising Experience for the Fish
A Little Real America
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• What US States Want: Google Autocomplete, 2014
• By the Numbers: How Americans Spend (More of) Their Money
• How Americans Watch TV
• This Is What Dinnertime Really Looks Like Around the US
• The Food Each State Hates th…
Country Diary 1
• Country Diary: The House Martins Have Taken Their Song and Departed
• Country Diary 1917: Ducks Float Like Toy Birds in the Early Haze
• Country Diary: Dark Trees Guard Even Darker Mysteries
• Country Diary: Solitary Wasp’s Embrace Means the End of the Road
Around Town 1
• Driverless Shuttles Could Help Seniors Get around in Rural Japan
• Where Does ‘Taking Back Control’ Leave Our Shopping Streets? In Cloud Cuckoo Land
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• Vending Machine Startup Hopes to Put Bodegas out of Business