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What 2,000 years of Chinese history reveals about today’s AI-driven technology panic – and the future of inequality

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China’s sun-scorched plains: “Heaven has gone blind!” Thousands of starving farmers, their faces smeared with ox blood, marched toward the opulent vaults held by the Han dynasty’s elite rulers.

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French cemetery for West African troops reopens amid identity dispute

A military cemetery near Lyon, where nearly 200 West African soldiers who fought for France in World War II are buried, has reopened after being desecrated earlier this year – and despite ongoing controversy over the identification of some of the dead.

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Long before debates over ‘wokeness’, Epicurus built a philosophy that welcomed slaves, women and outsiders

If you peruse the philosophy section of your local bookshop, you’ll probably find a number of books on Stoicism – an ancient philosophy enjoying a renaissance today. But where are the Epicureans?

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Women’s sexual pleasure is still taboo – but the Kamasutra tells a different story

For some people, the Kamasutra is little more than a name associated with condom brands, scented oils and chocolates shaped into erotic positions. In India, where sex remains a taboo subject, this ancient sex manual has often been reduced to merely a “dirty book”.

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Meet Maria Clementina Sobieska, the defiant queen who pulled off a jailbreak to secure the Jacobite legacy

Maria Clementina Sobieski is one of only three women buried in the famous St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, alongside an estimated 100 or so popes. She lived a life of extraordinary defiance and determination.

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Disturbing Video Of Tapeworm Being Extracted From Woman’s Mouth Is Going Viral

"It's a nightmare." Horrifying video of a tapeworm being extracted from a woman’s mouth prompts experts to issue an “urgent warning.” The post Disturbing Video Of Tapeworm Being Extracted From Woman’s Mouth Is Going Viral first appeared on Bored Panda.

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It’s the biggest Egyptian tomb discovery in a century. Who was Thutmose II?

Archaeologists in Egypt have made an exciting discovery: the tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II, a ruler who has long been overshadowed by his famous wife and half-sister, Queen Hatshepsut.

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Jack The Ripper’s Identity Revealed After 130 Years Thanks To DNA Testing

We might finally know the identity of the notorious killer, Jack the Ripper, and we might even have a DNA result for reference. Over 130 years after his gruesome murders in East London, England, the descendants of his victims are looking to unmask the identity of the serial killer popularly…

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“It’s Hard To Fathom”: Baffled Expert Says Dated Military Practice Might Have Caused DC Crash

Aviation expert and former pilot pointed out a concerning military practice at airports after the tragic American Airlines crash The post “It’s Hard To Fathom”: Baffled Expert Says Dated Military Practice Might Have Caused DC Crash first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Leonardo da Vinci’s incredible studies of human anatomy still don’t get the recognition they deserve

The mere mention of Leonardo da Vinci evokes genius. We know him as a polymath whose interests spanned astronomy, geology, hydrology, engineering and physics. As a painter, his Mona Lisa and Last Supper are considered works of mastery.

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Astronomers have spied an asteroid that may be heading for Earth. Here’s what we know so far

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth. Follow up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4, is on a path that might lead to a collision with our planet on 22 December 2032.

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Artificial intelligence: what five giants of the past can teach us about handling the risks

The progress of artificial intelligence (AI) has been relentless. With OpenAI’s latest model, o3, recently breaking records yet again, it raises urgent questions about safety, as well as the future of humanity.

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Guadeloupe to fell 'exotic' coconut trees to stem coastal erosion

France's Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe, famed for its tropical beaches, plans to remove some of its exotic coconut palms to stem coastal erosion and eradicate a tree disease.

Radio France Internationale

Today Is The 57th Anniversary Of The Day We Just Lost A Prime Minister In The Ocean

December 17 is a somber day for many, whom use it to reflect on the loss of Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt.

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Strasbourg honours liberation heroes 80 years after fall of Nazi regime

French President Emmanuel Macron will be in Strasbourg on Saturday to mark the 80th anniversary of the city's liberation from Nazi rule. He will also visit Natzweiler-Struthof, the site of the only fully operational concentration camp on French soil.

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Gladiator II features a naval battle held in the Colosseum. These brutal spectacles really happened

It’s one of the most thrilling sequences in Ridley Scott’s new film Gladiator II, the long-awaited sequel to the 2000 Oscar-winning blockbuster.

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Cacti are surprisingly fragile – and five other intriguing facts about these spiky wonders

Few plant families are as iconic as the resilient, spiky cactus, thriving in the driest deserts and as well as decorating our offices and homes. Their success in both environments comes down to extreme adaptations for surviving with little water – whether braving the brutal sun or enduring weeks of…

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President-Elect Donald Trump Started Appointing His Next Cabinet — Here’s Why People Are Worried

As fears begin over what a second Donald Trump term could look like, the staffing of the Trump administration has some experts worried.

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Disaster survivors want to rebuild safer, more sustainable homes, but cost misperceptions often stand in the way

As Florida and the Southeast begin recovering from 2024’s destructive hurricanes, many people are asking: How can we rebuild sustainably and in a way that avoids the same damage, costs and trauma in future storms?

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Plants and animals with bigger genomes grow less efficiently – new research helps explain why they never died out

All living things have a blueprint provided by the DNA that is stored in every one of their cells. Yet the amount of DNA in each cell – what we refer to as genome size – spans an incredible range across the tree of life.

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Melbourne’s Capitol Theatre turns 100. A look back at the radical Modernist marvel that almost met an early end

Melbourne’s Capitol Theatre – and the reinforced concrete and steel-beamed building around it – turns 100 today.

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Colonialism’s legacy has left Caribbean nations much more vulnerable to hurricanes

Long before colonialism brought slavery to the Caribbean, the native islanders saw hurricanes and storms as part of the normal cycle of life.

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Ancient Scandinavians likely used animal skin boats to hunt and trade, study finds

Ancient people were one of Scandinavia’s first seafaring societies, study says

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Gen Z’s language might seem incomprehensible but slang has always sounded that way – just look at these five Victorian sayings

All Gen Z slang might sound like “skibidi” to older generations, but every era has had its own confusing slang. For every “gyatt” today (originally a variation of “god damn”, now referring to a curvy woman) there was a “dog my cats” or “od’s fish” in the Victorian era (both…

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Gangs’stories: From the streets of Dhaka to human-rights advocacy in Bangladesh

For the past five years, the GANGS project, a European Research Council-funded project led by Dennis Rodgers, has been studying global gang dynamics in a comparative perspective. When understood in a nuanced manner that goes beyond the usual stereotypes and Manichean representations, gangs and gangsters arguably constitute fundamental lenses through…

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