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“I mean, it made things interesting,” says Cordell Martin about the surprise ending on “Dancing with the Stars” during “Top 13” night. The person eliminated wasn’t surprising (many of us had predicted it would be Anne Heche), but an error caused the wrong bottom two to be named by host Tyra Banks. Martin discussed that […]

What can we expect from a winter COVID-19 second wave, how do you reinvent your career, and how you can literally live under a rock until after the election.

Five Years Ago

This week in 2015, the TPP negotiators pulled an all-nighter to finish the latest draft of the agreement, though of course it still remained secret. An announcement from New Zealand, however, confirmed that it would extend copyright terms and lock-in terrible anti-circumvention rules, leading us to reiterate that it's not a "free trade" agreement but rather a protectionist one. Then, at the end of the week, Wikileaks released the final intellectual property chapter (and it was basically as bad as expected). Читать дальше...

South Africa has not signed the Leader’s Pledge for Nature, despite the Earth’s interdependent crisis of biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation and climate change

Researcher Els Vermeulen has a whale of a time conducting an annual aerial survey of the country’s southern right whales. But decreasing numbers reveal the depressing nature of this work

‘The Nonrepresentational’, created virtually through discussions between the artists and the gallery, seeks to build a new model of artist representation

On Tuesday, Free State farmers set a police van on fire and stormed the Senekal magistrate’s court to get to the cells where two people accused of killing a farm manager were being held.   The police took no action. “I want police to treat me like they treat a white man.” This was one wry […]

Is the ANC secretary general a gambling man — or just stirring the pot over the ‘news’ of his arrest warrant

[This selection is adapted from "The Labor Theory of Value: A Critique of Carson's Studies in Mutualist Political Economy," Journal of Libertarian Studies 20, no. 1 (2006). Please see original for full references and footnotes.]

All boast stunning autumnal views.

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As the pandemic has some women leaving the workforce to assume full-time childcare duties, experts warn of long-term financial impact.

They say that time travels are impossible. But we just went back to the 1960s! At least in the field of monetary policy. And all because of a new Fed’s framework. So, please fasten your seat belts and come with me into the past and present of monetary policy – to determine the future of gold! At the end of August 2020, the Fed has modified its Statement on Longer-Run Goals and Monetary Policy Strategy – for the first time since its creation in 2012. As a reminder, the Fed will now target not merely... Читать дальше...

“the water house” locates in a new resettlement area in Tam Anh, Nui Thanh, Quang Nam, Vietnam. which is annually influenced by the tropical monsoon climate. All of this gave people here a challenge to brainstorming an idea about building their own house that adapts to all features of the climate. Therefore, clients contact us to have their desires come true.

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Amid the pandemic, remote working became the new normal.

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Check out the first episode of the inside look at Khabib Nurmagomedov’s training camp for UFC 254.

When NASCAR announced that it was partnering with Barstool Sports back at the start of 2019, opinions were as strong as they were mixed. But no matter how you feel about it, the party is coming to an end... at least for a little while.

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Health,

It is important to have some protection during the pandemic (and also to help others in case you are sick).

New research out of the University of Georgia has revealed that neck gaiters—tubes of performance fabric generally used for running and exercising outdoors—do, in fact, provide a level of protection against the novel coronavirus that is equivalent to regular masks when used as a face covering.

For the study, which has not yet been published... Читать дальше...

An attempt to analyse India’s constant failures since colonisation misses the larger picture

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Nature has given some common instincts to humans as well as to animals. Human siblings never like sharing the same things or if one has something, the other other wants the same thing as well.

Maybe it’s the aftermath of the coining of “tech neck”, or a newly necessary accessory that covers half your face, but necks are in vogue.

IPL 2020, CSK vs RCB: Royal Challengers Bangalore smashed 66 runs from the last four overs, having adopted a cautious approach in the previous overs.