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Why are music festivals so expensive?
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- Why are music festivals so expensive?
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- 7 years ago
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- Today there are festivals in more parts of the world than ever before--and ticket prices are higher than ever before. Why are festivals so expensive? Read more about how big stars maximise their take from tours here: https://econ.st/30ktI6U
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- How will quantum computing change the world?
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- 7 years ago
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- The potential for quantum computing to crack other countries’ encrypted networks has captured the attention of national governments. Which of the world's fundamental challenges could be solved by quantum computing?
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- How to save humankind (according to James Lovelock)
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- 7 years ago
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- James Lovelock, the renowned scientist, has died aged 103. In 2019, to mark his 100th birthday, The Economist interviewed him about why he thinks the human race is under threat of destruction—and his radical plan for saving it.
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Is the human race under threat of destruction? This man thinks so and he has a plan for saving it. He’s a renowned scientist, inventor and most famously he is the man who came up with a revolutionary new idea of how the Earth works. He is James Lovelock and he has just turned 100 years old.
He believes artificial intelligence or so called “cyborgs” could take control, cool the planet and allow the human species to survive. James Lovelock’s work has changed the way scientists look at everything - from the common cold, to life on Mars. He invented a device that detected ozone-damaging CFCs in t...
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- How donuts have benefitted America's immigrants
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- 7 years ago
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- Donuts are the all-American confectionery. They have also helped a group of immigrants from Cambodia pursue the American dream.
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America has the biggest immigration population in the world. The country has long attracted people in search of a better life. Among them are Cambodian migrants who fled war and genocide at home and have found an unlikely route to prosperity – donuts.
It’s 4.40am and most people in the city are still fast asleep. But when Los Angeles wakes up, Teresa Ngo needs to be ready. She’s the co-owner of Blinkie’s Donut Emporium. Teresa and her dad Hugh bought Blinkie’s in 2003.
Making donuts is a long way from where Hugh started out his life. But in a cruel twist of fate Teresa’s family were subjected to a violent attack. Arriving in the USA was another huge change for the Ngo family...
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- Could solar geoengineering counter global warming?
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- 7 years ago
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- Global warming is probably the biggest threat facing humanity. If all else fails, could climate-controlling technology be the answer?
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This was one of the biggest volcanic explosions in history. It happened on June 15th 1991 in the north-west of the Philippines. It was so powerful it produced a gas cloud that reached the stratosphere. The explosion caused a lot of damage locally but the cloud itself did something extraordinary - it lowered the Earth’s temperature for four years.
Sulphur dioxide in the cloud created particles which spread around the Earth. These then reflected some of the sun’s rays into space. Scientists are looking to mimic the effects of this phenomenon to counter global warming. It’s a highly controversial concept known as solar geoengineering. Climate change is probably the biggest problem humanity ...
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- Who owns the Moon?
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- 7 years ago
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- 50 years after the first Moon landing, humanity is getting ready to go back. Countries and companies are planning dozens of lunar missions—for research, for resources and even for tourism, which begs the question: who, if anyone, owns the Moon?
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Who owns this? Is it America — the country that planted a flag on it?
Or this man — who has been selling plots of it for almost 40 years?
Or is it us — and anyone else who bought one and has the certificate to prove it?
Today many believe the Moon could be the next frontier for tourism, space exploration or even the mining of precious natural resources. Which means this question might be about to become a lot more important.
In 1969 an estimated 650m people watched as Neil Armstrong took his first step on the surface of the Moon. Five more landings foll...
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- What do Moon rocks reveal about the universe?
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- 7 years ago
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- Between 1969 and 1972 six Apollo missions returned to Earth with Moon rocks. It was hoped that they would unlock lunar secrets but they also ended up teaching scientists more about the creation of the Earth and the universe beyond.
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These have been described as the most expensive rocks in the world. Until NASA’s Apollo moon missions they’d laid on the lunar surface for millions of years undisturbed by humans.
From 1969 to 1972 there were six Apollo missions which returned to Earth with samples. It was hoped they’d uncover secrets about the Moon - they ended up teaching scientists a lot about the Earth too.
Nine containers of lunar samples were brought back to Earth. Scientists studying the rocks learnt a great deal about the many impacts early in the Moon’s development. These created huge craters - some the size of large countries.
Ancie...
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- How China is crushing the Uyghurs
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- 7 years ago
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- China's Muslim Uyghurs face systematic oppression from their own government. Their home province of Xinjiang has been turned into a police state—an estimated one million of them are detained in camps where they are brainwashed. How and why are China's leaders doing this?
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- Who is the real Boris Johnson?
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- 7 years ago
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- Boris Johnson is likely to become Britain's next prime minister. In today's ugly politics he would be a dangerous leader.
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Boris Johnson—you can love him, you can hate him but who is he?
In some ways, he’s a very, very familiar figure
He’s a very colourful character
He has a very distinctive persona
And he’s a global superstar
My friends, we export French knickers to France
Everybody thinks they know him around the world but the more you look at him he’s really difficult to understand because there are at least two very distinctive Boris Johnsons
So let’s find out more about who these two Boris Johnsons are
One is of the globalist, open-minded person
A liberal who is in favour of open immigration
I...
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- Who will challenge Donald Trump in 2020?
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- 7 years ago
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- The 2020 Democratic primary election is already one of the most hotly contested in history, with over 20 candidates vying to lead the party. John Prideaux, our US editor, takes a look at the front-runners.
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- Secrets of the deep ocean
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- 7 years ago
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- Parts of the ocean floor are being explored for the first time. Scientists are using technology to map the damage caused by humanity—and reveal clues about how the ocean can be better protected. Film supported by @blancpain
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Deep beneath the ocean’s surface lie vast areas of seabed that have never before been explored by humankind. Now state-of-the-art technology is giving these scientists an unprecedented opportunity to conduct research that is vital to protecting the ocean. And to uncovering the true nature of damage being done to it.
This is the RV Investigator. The ship used by the Australian government and marine scientists to research the deep ocean.
Off the coast of Tasmania a team of scientists is on a remarkable mission to investigate marine life thousands of metres below the surface. To do this they are using advanced cameras attached to a sub...
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- How to spot a child genius | Economist
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- 7 years ago
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- Gifted children around the world are going under the radar—their talents not recognised or nurtured. More should be done to spot these “lost Einsteins”
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How do you spot a child genius? Gifted children tend to share three defining characteristics. First, they develop skills at a very young age. Mozart began composing music when he was just five years old. Second, they are self-starters. Srinivasa Ramanujan was constructing complex formulae and theories before he had even been taught basic mathematics. Third, gifted children can be near-obsessive in their interests. For William James Sidis, a writer, collecting hundreds of streetcar transfers was a sideline to learning eight languages by the time he was eight. He was accepted at Harvard University at the age of 11.
They would all have been good candidates for Mensa, an international society for people with the highes...
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- Why Jeremy Hunt thinks he'll be Britain's next prime minister
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- 7 years ago
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- Jeremy Hunt, Britain's foreign secretary, is a front-runner to become prime minister. He spoke with The Economist about his chances of leading the Conservative Party, and relations with Donald Trump and with China.
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00:28 - Why should MPs back you? What makes you different from Michael Gove and Boris Johnson?
02:31 - Can you just absolutely clarify for us what is your position on no deal?
04:01 - Do you think no deal is as bad as the Economist has been pretty clear all along and we've done very deep dives on it form a number of perspectives that we think it's pretty catastrophic for the UK economy and not very good for Europe either do you share the depth of feeling that the Economist has?
05:07 - How high is the probability of a no deal in percentage terms?
05:57 - Are there any candidates that you would or wouldn't serve...
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- How the D-Day landings shaped the world
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- 7 years ago
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- The D-Day landings were the biggest seaborne invasion ever seen. They not only helped to liberate Europe from the Nazis but were instrumental in changing the world order
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On June 6th 1944 Allied troops staged the largest seaborne invasion the world has ever seen. D-Day helped liberate Europe from the Nazis but it was also pivotal in creating a new world order.
This was dominated at first by two superpowers and ultimately by America and her allies But this liberal Western order is now under threat. In 1941 after two years of fighting German armies were still advancing. Having taken Paris in 1940 they invaded Russia and were pushing back the British in North Africa. Later in the Pacific the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour and took Singapore from the British. The world was at war, and the Allies were losing.
But from t...
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- This could change the way cancer is treated
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- 7 years ago
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- A combination of drugs, including aspirin and statins, are being tested to treat cancer and other illnesses. There is mounting clinical evidence that the "repurposing" of existing drugs could offer effective new treatments.
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Right now we’d like to take a few moments to tell you all about aspirin. Did you know that aspirin may help treat cancer as well as headaches. The pain’s gone, so tension’s gone. It’s not the only drug being used to treat an illness that it wasn’t originally intended for.
But for some people, using old drugs for new treatments or “repurposing” can be the difference between life and death. I still can’t find the appropriate words to describe how horrible it is to have to tell your own parents that you’ll be dead before them.
Melanie Kennedy, mother of two young boys was diagnosed with bre...
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- America v China: a new kind of cold war
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- 7 years ago
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- America and China are fighting over far more than trade. If this growing rivalry is managed badly, everybody will lose.
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The dispute between the United States and China is about much more than trade. For everything from blockbuster films to lunar exploration. From semiconductors to submarines.
In every domain, they’re now rivals. Superpower relations have soured. America thinks that China is stealing secrets, stealing its way to dominance. And then it looks at Chinese behaviour in the South China sea and bullying countries like Canada and Sweden and it thinks that China’s beginning to challenge global norms.
But it looks very different from Beijing. From its point of view America is trying to block its entirely justified rise.
For everyone else it seems like the beginnings of a new kind of cold ...
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- How sea cucumbers can help the ocean
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- 7 years ago
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- Sea cucumbers are a prized aphrodisiac in China. But like many coastal species they have been chronically overfished. One remote community in Madagascar has started a pioneering coastal-farming project with astonishing results. Film supported by @blancpain
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The ocean is facing environmental catastrophe. Overfishing is a ticking time bomb for both planet and people.
In one remote coastal village the locals appear to have found an unlikely solution. A strange little sea creature that’s a popular aphrodisiac and just possibly a fisherman’s salvation. In the first business of its kind in Madagascar, Dadiny has recently started farming these animals. Sea cucumbers.
Sea cucumbers are under threat. Growing them in designated and contained areas is helping to protect both this important species and other kinds of marine life here in the south-west of Madagascar....
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- Why India’s election has stoked conflict
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- 7 years ago
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- India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has galvanised voters with an appeal to Hindu nationalism. But rising Hindu-Muslim violence is putting India’s historic secularism at risk.
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India, the world’s biggest democracy. 29 states, seven territories, 900m voters and one age-old fault line – nationalism.
It’s pitting Hindus against Muslims and other minorities, and putting India’s long tradition of secularism under threat. Anamika is one of the 1bn Hindus living in India. She’s 23 and studying for a degree in physics. Today she’s leading a rally to get students to vote in the country’s upcoming general election. But Anamika doesn’t want these students to vote for just anyone. She’s actually the modern face of a vast Hindu nationalist group.
Anamika lives in Uttar Pradesh. It’s one of the most ...
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- Why Europe's nationalist parties all sound alike
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- 7 years ago
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- Nationalist parties in the European Union are gaining momentum. At a time when the EU is increasingly fractured, they are united on many issues. What are they?
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Three European politicians. They speak different languages but they’re all singing the same tune.
And that’s weird because one belief that unites these nationalist populist European leaders is that the European Union should be less united. Since the euro crisis of 2009 and the migrant crisis of 2015 these right-wing populist movements have grown in strength and in number.
His campaign against Muslim refugees won his party two-thirds of the seats in Hungary’s general election in 2018. Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party doesn’t sound all that different.
Every European country has its own version. Tomio Okamura is a Czech-nationalist...
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- Why is vanilla so expensive? | The Economist
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- 7 years ago
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- From ice cream to cakes and even perfume, vanilla is the go-to flavour the world over.
Natural vanilla has, at times, been worth more than silver by weight.
But for the farmers of Madagascar, who grow 80% of the world's supply, the riches are precarious.
Thieves are targeting crops, forcing some farmers to harvest beans before they're ripe - driving down quality and, ultimately, price.
With big buyers increasingly sourcing vanilla from Indonesia, Uganda and beyond, Madagascar's century-long near-monopoly on the world's most popular flavour may be coming to an end.
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- Why is Alzheimer's still a medical mystery?
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- 7 years ago
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- Decades of scientific research into Alzheimer’s have failed to find a cure. Little is known about the degenerative brain disease—but this may be about to change.
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As populations have aged, dementia has soared to become the fifth leading cause of death worldwide. Alzheimer’s disease, a form of dementia, accounts for most of these cases. Tens of billions of dollars have been spent on Alzheimer’s research over the past several decades but still there is no cure.
All attempts to halt the progression of the disease have failed. Now many major drug companies have pulled out of research altogether. So why is Alzheimer’s disease still such a medical mystery?
One of the signs of Alzheimer’s in the brain is damage of connections and the loss of large numbers of neurons over time. It affects the hippocampus and its connected structures making it harder to fo...
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- Why Vietnam's "Lady Gaga" lives in fear
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- 7 years ago
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- Despite sweeping reforms, Vietnam is still a repressive one-party state which spies on its people. Mai Khoi, one of the country's most celebrated singers, is fighting back.
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Mai Khoi is one of Vietnam’s best-known musicians. A former darling of the country’s ruling Communist Party, her songwriting was nationally celebrated and she was the poster girl for Vietnam. Today she is an enemy of the state and lives in constant fear for her life.
Music has always been closely monitored by Vietnam’s communist regime. During the Vietnam war, music that did not promote communist ideals was banned. Today, the few songwriters who dare to directly challenge the authority of the regime face serious consequences.
Mai Khoi started to be monitored by the regime. Before the visit of the then US president, Barack Obama, in 2016...
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- Are monarchies a thing of the past?
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- 7 years ago
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- Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are celebrating the birth of their baby boy. A new emperor has ascended to the throne in Japan. And Thailand is crowning its new king. Around the world monarchies are holding up surprisingly well. What is the secret to their success?
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Around the world monarchies are holding up surprisingly well. Many are doing more than just surviving, they are thriving. 44 countries have a monarch as head of state.
Since the millennium, only two royal families have gone out of business. Those of Samoa and Nepal, where in 2001, a murderous Nepalese prince killed nine family members, and himself. In effect, ending the royal line.
In the 20th century revolutions and two world wars ended 110 monarchies.
How do you keep a monarchy alive? Queen Elizabeth II is perhaps the best-known monarch....
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- How to detect the deadliest form of cancer
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- 7 years ago
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- Lung cancer is the deadliest of cancers. Screening could save thousands of lives, so why is it not the norm?
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Lung cancer kills more people than any other form of tumour.
About nine out of ten people die within five years of being diagnosed with the disease. If the cancer is caught very early most patients could be cured. But doctors struggle to diagnose early because there are no symptoms until the cancer is in its late stages and has spread to other organs.
Some experts think that doctors should screen people at high risk to find lung cancer before symptoms appear. The national lung-screening trial in America subjected 53,000 current and former heavy smokers to either X-ray or computed-tomography scans every year for three years. Its results, reported in 2011 found that screening with CT scans did save lives.
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- Mandela's legacy: 25 years on
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- 7 years ago
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- Nelson Mandela is one of the great icons of the 20th century. Yet many of South Africa's "born free" generation—those born after the end of apartheid—are conflicted about his legacy.
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- This is the most over-fished sea in the world
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- 7 years ago
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- The Mediterranean supports countries in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa—but its fish stocks are almost completely collapsed. Meet the man who is leading attempts to revive its marine habitats. Film supported by @blancpain
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This is the extraordinary story of one man’s dream to save the most over-fished sea in the world. Zafer Kizilkaya has almost single handedly turned a ravaged bay in Turkey into one of the most effective and thriving marine conservation areas in the Mediterranean. His hope is to inspire others to bring marine life back to one of the most famous but damaged parts of the ocean.
It’s a chilly December morning on Turkey’s eastern-Mediterranean coast and Zafer Kizilkaya is a man on a mission. He’s dedicated to enforcing the no-fishing zones that he has helped create here in Gokova Bay.
Within just 20 minutes Zafer and one of h...
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- How to defeat malaria
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- 7 years ago
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- Malaria still kills around 400,000 people a year. Efforts to eradicate the disease have stalled because of drug resistance—but pioneering gene-editing technology might offer a new solution
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- Who will be Britain's next prime minister?
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- 7 years ago
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- The race is already on to replace Theresa May as Britain's prime minister. Adrian Wooldridge, our political editor, assesses the chances of five leading Conservative politicians hoping to take the top job.
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- Is private education good for society?
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- 7 years ago
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- Across the world private education is booming. Though private schools and tuition promote inequality, Emma Duncan, our social policy editor, explains why governments should embrace the private sector's rise
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There is a big boom in private education all over the world. You see it in schooling numbers. The numbers of people going to private primary has gone up from 10 to 17 percent over the last 15 years. Secondaries gone up from 9 to 27 percent. Then if you look in particular countries you find for instance in China, there's a big increase in people going to elite private schools. But also huge business in terms of people getting online tuition. Parents are finding ways to spend money on the great competition to improve their children's brains.
The resurgence is happening for a few different reasons and one of them is th...
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- How long will you live?
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- 7 years ago
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- In Japan people can expect to live beyond 84 years on average—yet in Lesotho life expectancy is just 53 years. The age at which people die still depends a lot on where they live.
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- The truth about lies
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- 7 years ago
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- From little fibs to big fat whoppers, lying is part of human nature. Lane Greene, our language guru, examines the difference between lies, falsehoods and plain nonsense.
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- The hunt for oceans in space
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- 7 years ago
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- Scientists believe there are oceans buried under thick crusts of ice on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter. Sampling them would raise hope of life beyond Earth
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- Trump's post-Mueller victory spin
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- 7 years ago
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- The summary of Robert Mueller's report appears to have cleared President Trump of collusion with Russia in the 2016 election campaign—though it did not exonerate him of obstructing justice. Kal, our cartoonist, contemplates "spinmeister" Trump's joyous vindication.
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- Why is chicken so cheap? | The Economist
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Chicken's are the most populous bird on the planet. People eat 65 billion of them every year. It is the fastest-growing meat product. Yet pound for pound the price of chicken has fallen sharply. How has this happened?
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00:00 - where did chickens come from?
00:43 - how has technology changed chicken farming?
02:23 - how have chickens changed?
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- How happy is your country?
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- 7 years ago
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- Money doesn't buy happiness—or does it? In both India and China people have become richer in the past decade, but global data reveal that greater wealth does not necessarily lead to greater happiness
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The Beatles sang that money can't buy you love,but might it make you happier? A new study compared wealth and well-being around the world - each circle represents a country sized approximately by its population. The red circle show countries where happiness has moved in the opposite direction to GDP. The blue circle show countries where happiness and GDP have moved in the same direction. They go from richer to poorer - what about happiness?
On a scale from zero to ten where would you place your life satisfaction right now? That question was asked of thousands of people aroun...
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- Why calories are a con
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Calorie-counting has been central to people's understanding of weight loss for over a century. Given that the great majority of diets fail—could the calorie be one of the biggest delusions in dietary history?
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For decades people who want to control their weight have been told to count calories. Given that the great majority of diets fail is this good advice? Could the calorie be one of the biggest delusions in dietary history?
The idea of counting calories was introduced by Wilbur Atwater. He believed that a calorie is a calorie. His theory was that a calorie provided the body with an equal amount of energy no matter what kind of food or micronutrient it came from. He concluded that one gram of either protein or carbohydrate provided four calories of energy compared with nine through one gram of fat. And more than a century later, that series of numbers, 4-4-9, remains...
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- Are lab-grown diamonds the future?
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- 7 years ago
- Description
- Scientists now have the technology to make synthetic diamonds in a laboratory. They are far cheaper than mined stones, but can they replace the real thing?
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It's the biggest disrupter the diamond industry has faced. Machines are now growing diamonds in a matter of weeks for two-thirds of the price - but can they replace the magic of a mined stone? Could they cause the $82 billion diamond jewelry industry to lose its sparkle?
Sophisticated ads have been making the case for diamonds for decades. De Beers, the world's biggest rough diamond producer by value, linked diamonds with romance in the late 1940s and dreamt up the idea of a diamond engagement ring as an essential display of love. So-called queen of diamonds Alisa Moussaieff sells gems to the rich and the Royal the world over, and has done for over half a century. For her there's more to a diamond than its chemical s...
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- What's the point of NATO?
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- NATO was set up in 1949 to counter the Soviet threat. Its North American and European members must continue to change the alliance if it is to remain relevant in the 21st century.
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- Why St Patrick's Day went global
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- 7 years ago
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- St Patrick’s Day is celebrated by 149m people in America alone. How did Ireland's saint's day become a global event?
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- Is this the future of health?
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- 7 years ago
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- Artificial intelligence is already shaping the world, from driverless cars to dating. But according to Dr Eric Topol, a pioneer in digital medicine, perhaps its greatest impact will be on people's health.
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- The new scramble for Africa
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- 7 years ago
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- The past decade has seen a big surge of foreign interest in Africa—involving China, India and Russia. If the continent handles this new "scramble" wisely, the main winners will be Africans themselves.
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- What if women ruled the world?
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- 7 years ago
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- Only 6.3% of all international leaders are women. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former Liberian president and Africa's first elected female head of state, suggests ways to redress the balance.
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- India v Pakistan: the threat of nuclear war
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- 7 years ago
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- A recent terrorist attack has reignited the possibility of war between India and Pakistan—and this time both have nuclear weapons. Will the countries' leaders, Narendra Modi and Imran Khan, allow the Kashmir conflict to escalate?
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- Mars: when will humans get there?
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- 7 years ago
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- Sending astronauts to Mars is a daunting prospect. But this will not deter NASA and private companies from trying to put humans on the red planet.
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- Brexit: what would a second referendum look like?
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- 7 years ago
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- Britain's Labour Party has announced it will support a second referendum on Britain leaving the EU. What might be on the ballot?
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- Fake news v fact: The battle for truth
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Smartphones and digital platforms are enabling people to watch the state—uncovering lies and holding the powerful to account. Evidence from open-source investigations is now being used by the United Nations and The International Criminal Court.
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Modern technology is helping the state watch its citizens but that same technology is also letting citizens watch the state.
The rise of social media and the proliferation of smartphones has made it easier than ever for people to consume news - but not all this information is true. Some governments use these platforms to disseminate propaganda and monitor citizens behavior. Now this technology has also helped to turn the tables on of the powerful.
Alexa Koenig is a law professor and investigator. She gathers evidence from multiple digital sources to investigate some of the biggest human rights abuses in the 21st c...
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- Space: the next frontier for war?
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- President Trump has just announced plans to create a new military Space Force, increasing the prospect of a new theatre of war. How might war in space be fought?
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The 1,300 active satellites above the earth provide a wide array of services - some of which are vital for emergency response and for the military. An attack on a countries satellites could be catastrophic and many worried that space may become a new theater of war. Large powers have developed various capabilities for destroying satellites
Now companies are building advanced service spacecraft that could become weapons. The purpose of these service craft is to repair and move existing satellites but all it takes is a change of intent for these spacecraft to become warcraft. A Chinese space weapon test which destroyed one of its own defunct satellites in 2007 created a great deal of debris that put other satellit...
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- How Islam in the West is changing
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Islamist terrorism has fractured relations between Islam and the West. Robert Guest, our foreign editor, explains how Western Muslims are gradually becoming more liberal.
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- The search for new planets
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- 7 years ago
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- A new space telescope could discover thousands of planets. But will they support life? TESS may reveal the next clues to finding out.
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- Can universal basic income help society?
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- 7 years ago
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- In parts of California there are plans to give people no-strings-attached cash, whether they have a job or not. It's hoped these trials could be the solution to a potentially jobless dystopian future. Film supported by Mishcon de Reya
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