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Russia vs Darwin

TheBell.io (en) 

School education in Russia remains a key area for reform among the authorities and legislators, seeking to embed a deeper nationalistic and conservative identity among the next generation. Recent proposals include introducing“chastity” lessons and removing English language classes from the curriculum. Now the Russian

Theresa May Tears Donald Trump A New One Without Even Saying His Name

Huffingtonpost.co.uk 

Donald Trump and Theresa May

Theresa May laid into Donald Trump last night and accused him of playing on theories that climate change is a “hoax”.

Speaking at The Independent’s Climate 100 event in New York on Wednesday, the former PM took aim at the former US president, who is standing for re-election.

Though she did not mention Trump by name, May said: “Here in the United States, action on climate change is already a feature of the upcoming presidential election, with one of... Читать дальше...

The Missing Ingredient in European Competitiveness

Project Syndicate 

The coming months will show how committed European leaders are to restoring economic competitiveness in a world where they are falling further behind. The European Union desperately needs capital-market integration, and achieving that will require many member states to swallow their national pride.

Telescope captures the most detailed infrared map ever of our Milky Way

Phys.org 

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects―the most detailed one ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope, the team monitored the central regions of our galaxy over more than 13 years. At 500 terabytes of data, this is the largest observational project ever carried out with an ESO telescope.

Slip

The New York Review of Books 

Oblivion lives in a matte black dustbinin the corner of Julie’s studio.Lid on, it eclipses itself, a Buddhabeneath notice, waiting under primitiveshelves laden with pots-in-progress:leather-hard or biscuit-fired, provisionallypainted, the stoneware mute,a Morandi in waiting of milky bottles,milk and dust…                               You are makinga pinch-pot, idly turning and pressingand meanwhile thinking of something else—perhaps your mother, gone forever,or […]

The Race That Can’t Be Won

The New York Review of Books 

A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than the last one.

‘The Death of Some Ideal’

The New York Review of Books 

The Irish novelist Anne Enright writes with great prowess and wit about women who make a virtue of getting on with things.

Under the Spotlight

The New York Review of Books 

Richard Sennett's new book The Performer ranges beyond acting to musical, political, social, and pictorial performance.

‘Deviations and Catastrophes’

The New York Review of Books 

The characters in Kathleen Alcott's stories struggle with whether to let their attachment to the past derail them in the present.

Grant vs. the Klan

The New York Review of Books 

New books reconsider how Ulysses S. Grant became a forceful defender of the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.

Lifer

The New York Review of Books 

That fall I biked to Fort Greene Park three timesto see a Townsend’s warbler, rare becauseit should have been in California. I staggered, fix-eyed, head back, underneathan elm. The bird was said to look a littlelike a first-year male Blackburnian. Its moustache sharper. Neck an Easter yellow.A stray’s a chance to see a bird you […]