The great auk was a flightless, populous and reportedly delicious bird, once found widely across the rocky outcrops of the North Atlantic. By the 1860s it was extinct, its decline sharpened by specimen collectors and at least one volcanic eruption. Human-driven extinction was ‘almost unthinkable’ until the auk’s disappearance, Liam Shaw writes. He joins Tom ... Show More
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On Politics: The Bust-up at the BBC
The BBC is in crisis, again. A leaked dossier alleging a lack of impartiality in its reporting on Trump, Israel, race and gender has felled its director general and drawn threats of a defamation lawsuit from the White House. Yet many at the corporation point to the dossier’s cult ... Show More
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Nov 21
Aftershock: The War on Terror – Episode 1: With Us or Against Us
In the days after 9/11, George W. Bush declared a state of emergency and initiated what would become an unprecedented expansion of US power. Public debate narrowed: there were new limits on what was acceptable, and not acceptable, to say. The London Review of Books published a nu ... Show More
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Oct 2024
L’isolement explique-t-il l’extinction des Néandertaliens ?
<p>Les nouvelles données trouvées à partir des ossements d'un homme de Néandertal, découvert dans la Drôme, en 2015, pourrait lever le voile sur une énigme qui intrigue les scientifiques depuis longtemps.</p><br><p>Ils se demandent en effet comment expliquer la disparition subite ... Show More
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