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Inside Ivory Coast's hidden gold rush
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- Inside Ivory Coast's hidden gold rush
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- 10 years ago
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- Inside Ivory Coast's hidden gold rush takes a look at the gold mining industry in Ivory Coast. For a long time mining was seen as a dirty alternative to a more wholesome farming lifestyle. But some of the richest gold-mining potential in Africa is luring hundreds of thousands of Ivorians off the land and into the mines.
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- Discover Miami: travel the bars and beaches with the locals
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- 10 years ago
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- Miami, the city where happy hour is a lifestyle. Passport: Miami shows you a side to the city that only the locals know. Join a Cuban singer, a beach-runner and a drag queen as they open the doors to their shining, fabulous, soulful city.
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Passport is an original travel series for the intellectually and culturally curious, exploring some of the most exciting city destinations in the world. The insiders’ guide to each city follows at the shoulder of three local characters as they reveal the experiences and places not covered in the guidebooks.
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- Body Builders: the science and technology of bionic limbs
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- 10 years ago
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- Bionics is moving from sci-fi fantasy to the commercial market. In BODY BUILDERS we reveal the groundbreaking technology driving the new bionic industry.
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Future Works features the people doing tomorrow’s jobs today. The series examines the impact of new technology in creating new jobs—and transforming existing ones. It looks beyond the gadgets to reveal what it’s like to work in the emerging industries of the future.
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- Meat Makers: the artificial beef revolution
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- 10 years ago
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- Can we improve on nature? The race is on to create man-made meat.
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Being top of the food chain has its advantages but it takes 65 billion farm animals every year to feed our appetite for meat, and livestock farming is one of the biggest causes of greenhouse gas emissions. So two men are racing to come up with a radical alternative. They're using competing methods but they share the same bold ambition. Man-made meat.
If successful they'll transform what's on all our dinner plates. But are we ready? Most of us don't like to think too hard about what goes into putting meat on our plate.
In the Netherlands one man is working towards a future where we won't need to kill a cow to eat beef. Instead, Professor Mark Post is growing his own beef in a laboratory. His innovation could cause the biggest food revolution since farming began 12,000 years ago and all he n...
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- Space Invaders: the entrepreneurs taking humans into space
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- 10 years ago
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- There’s a new space race. In the Mojave desert, SPACE INVADERS follows entrepreneurs and young dreamers as they scramble to get out into the cosmos.
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Future Works features the people doing tomorrow’s jobs today. The series examines the impact of new technology in creating new jobs—and transforming existing ones. It looks beyond the gadgets to reveal what it’s like to work in the emerging industries of the future.
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- E-Sports Superstars: gamers earning millions
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- 10 years ago
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- Are they the athletes of tomorrow or gaming geeks who just got lucky? Discover the future face of sport in E-Sports Superstars.
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- Drone Rangers: how the technology can catch poachers and save lives
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- 10 years ago
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- They never leave the ground—but these are the pilots of the future…
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Future Works features the people doing tomorrow’s jobs today. The series examines the impact of new technology in creating new jobs—and transforming existing ones. It looks beyond the gadgets to reveal what it’s like to work in the emerging industries of the future.
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- Look inside China’s secretive Olympic training camps
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- 11 years ago
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- With 400,000 children in special Olympic schools, China has the biggest mass recruitment and training programme in the world. Will it translate to medals in Rio 2016?
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- Why Japan's conviction rate is 99%
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- 11 years ago
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- In Japan, crime rates are low and the state incarcerates far fewer people than in other rich countries. But when people are accused of a crime they are almost always convicted.
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Japan is a remarkably safe society. Crime rates are low and the state incarcerates far fewer people than in other rich countries. The emphasis is on rehabilitation
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- Solar technology that will shape the future
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- 11 years ago
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- Meet the men and women bringing solar power to the people – and fighting to transform our global energy supply.
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Haiti - the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere ravaged by an earthquake in 2010 - most in this Caribbean outpost are living in darkness. Globally, 20% of people don't have access to electricity. In Haiti it's 75%.
Impoverished and without alternatives, Haiti's become a testing ground for a DIY power system that could help bring electricity to the 1.3 billion people worldwide who currently have none. It's one of many tentative steps toward a future where solar energy will play an ever larger role in powering the planet.
This is the story of the Solar pioneers and the technology they hope will shape the future.
Single mum Madeline has never had access to electricity. Today that's going to change. Until now she's used kerosene to feed lamps, spending...
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- 24 & ready to die
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- 11 years ago
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- Emily is 24 years old and physically healthy. But she wants her doctors to end her life.
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24 & ready to die is the tragic case of Emily, a young Belgian woman granted the right to a doctor’s help to end her own life because of her persistent, severe depression.
Belgium and the Netherlands are the only countries which permit doctor-assisted dying for those experiencing unbearable mental suffering.
Several American states allow doctor-assisted dying for the terminally ill, including, from next year, California.
Majorities in 13 of the 15 countries polled by The Economist and IPSOS MORI in June support doctor-assisted dying.
The Economist has championed doctor-assisted dying in articles and editorials since the 1990s, including most recently a cover story in June this year. The Economist ran a video advert in London in September and Berlin asking: “Coul...
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- Prison: how to break the cycle of reoffending?
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- 11 years ago
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- More former prisoners are reoffending than ever before. We reveal the latest efforts to break the cycle in the first episode of our new Economist Films series.
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Huntsville Texas - more prisoners have been executed in this penitentiary than any other jail in the United States. From murderers to petty criminals, thousands more languish behind bars for decades. Reoffending is one of the greatest challenges facing justice systems worldwide. But could it be that prisons themselves are at the heart of this global problem?
Families of the inmates have an anxious wait across the road from the penitentiary, but for the prisoners their first taste of freedom can be overwhelming. They have little to help them start a new life. They're given $50 on release, a shirt, trousers, and a pair of shoes. Those lucky enough to have the support of families head for home, the others have to fend for themselves. Olly ...
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- Japan's Yakuza: Inside the syndicate
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- 11 years ago
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- In 2011 a Belgian photographer was allowed entry into one of Japan’s Yakuza families. Over two years, he captured the lives of those living in the underworld.
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Japan's Yakuza: Inside the syndicate. With at least 50,000 members, Japan's Yakuza gangs form one of the world's largest criminal networks. Anton Kusters, a Belgian photographer, was allowed a rare glimpse inside a Yakuza family in early 2009. He documented the family for two years.
The Ya-Ku-Za means 8-9-3, a losing combination in a card game similar to Blackjack. The exact origins of the Yakuza are unclear, but they are thought to have descended from masterless samurai in the early 17th century. In the 18th century, these poor, landless bandits began grouping together, creating families.
The family Anton spent time with controls Kabukicho, Tokyo's red-light district; its business is largely pr...
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- What is consciousness? | The Economist
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- 11 years ago
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- Understanding what consciousness is, and why and how it evolved, is perhaps the greatest mystery known to science.
Some scholars reckon the puzzle of consciousness is something the human mind is incapable of solving. Are they right?
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- Why does time pass?
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- 11 years ago
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- The equations of physics suggest time should be able to go backwards as well as forwards. Experience suggests, though, that it cannot. Why? And is time travel really possible?
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Why does time pass? It is a question so profound that few people would even think to ask it. Yet its effects are all around. Human beings live in a perpetual present, inexorably sealed off from the past, but moving relentlessly into the future. For most people, time seems to be something that is just out there. A thing ticking away in the background - fixed, immutable. Time seems to go in one direction and in one direction only. But physicists see it much differently.
One of the great minds who changed the way science thinks about time was Albert Einstein. In 1905 he published his special theory of relativity. In it he demonstrated that time passes differently in different places depending on h...
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- What caused the Cambrian explosion?
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- 11 years ago
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- For most of the Earth's history, life consisted of the simplest organisms; but then something happened that would give rise to staggering diversity, and, ultimately, life as complex as that which we see today. Scientists are still struggling to figure out just what that was.
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- What is the universe made of?
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- 11 years ago
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- The Earth, the sun, the stars, and everything we can see, only comprise five percent of the universe. But what about the other 95 percent? Scientists are puzzling over dark matter and dark energy, the mysterious components that make up the rest.
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What is the universe made of? Scientists have determined that normal matter, the stuff that makes up the earth, the stars and everything we can see, only makes up a small portion of the universe. The rest is made up of two mysterious components that are shaping our universe in profound ways. Much of the mass of the universe is made up of something called Dark Matter, which neither reflects nor emits light, but like the matter we can see, pulls things together with gravity in. Space itself seems to be permeated by an unusual force called Dark Energy which is driving things apart.
Based on current estimates scientists believe that only 5% of the univers...
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- Do we live in a multiverse?
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- 11 years ago
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- It has long been thought that our universe is all there is, but it is possible we may live in just one of many. This is the second in our six-part series on unsolved mysteries in science. Read the accompanying article: http://www.economist.com/news/science-brief/21660968-our-second-brief-scientific-mysteries-we-ask-whether-world-might-make-more-sense.
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When the ancients looked into the night sky they thought the heavens revolved around the earth and mankind. over the centuries this view has changed radically.
We discovered we lived on a planet orbiting a star within the solar system and the solar system was found to be part of the Milky Way galaxy. Later we learned that our universe was filled with billions of other such galaxies - but could it be that we're committing the same error as our ancestors by thinking the universe contains everything there is? Could it be that we live in a multiverse...
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- Life in the universe
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- 11 years ago
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- Does life exist anywhere else in the universe? And how did it get started? Scientists are seeking the answers in the cosmos, our solar system and right here on planet Earth.
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Is there life elsewhere in the universe? Anyone who has pondered the immensity of the cosmos has probably wondered at some time or another whether life exists beyond our planet?
The search for life beyond Earth has been buoyed by recent discoveries made by NASA's Kepler telescope - it's looking for planets outside our solar system known as exoplanets. Kepler measures the brightness of distant stars and tracks a stars dimming when a planet passes in front. Up until 1995, exoplanets were purely theoretical - but scientists have since identified thousands of them.
in July, NASA scientists announced the discovery of one of their most exciting exoplanets yet - Kepler-452B. Located some fourteen thousand light-yea...
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- The World If… malaria drugs stop working
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- 11 years ago
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- Malaria is one of the world’s biggest killers. And our best weapon against it is at risk. We’re in a race against evolution – but what happens if we lose? Find out in the latest release from Economist Films: http://econ.st/1U9GNXR
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- America's elderly prisoner boom
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- 11 years ago
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- Thanks to ultra-long sentences, America's 2.3m prisoners are getting older. Under the 'Gold coats' programme in California, younger inmates look after elderly ones
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Prisons are becoming America's biggest old people's homes. Now the country that locks up more people than anywhere else must deal with the consequences of a growing prison population. Growing old in prison is hard.
Samuel Baxter is an inmate here at the California men's colony prison in San Luis Obispo almost everyday for the past four years Mr Baxter has helped elderly prisoners get dressed, eat, and get about prison. It is a confronting job.
In America some 2.2 million people are behind bars, and the prisoners are getting older. The number of people over the age of 65 who were in prison has doubled since 2007. In fact, aging men and women are the most rapidly growing part of America's prison population. In part, this ...
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- How Portugal and Colorado solved their drug problems
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- 11 years ago
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- For 20 years The Economist has led calls for a rethink on drug prohibition. This film looks at new approaches to drugs policy, from Portugal to Colorado.
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Early morning in mainland Europe two white vans are quietly being loaded full of cocaine, hashish, and ecstasy. They're being readied to move nearly four tons of narcotics. Authorities have been trying for decades to contain the global trade in illicit drugs. The drugs in these vans will be taken to an incinerator and destroyed. It's a journey the Portuguese police make every month and they know there's no end in sight.
At a Portuguese incineration plant the drug squad prepares to burn their latest haul. For years Portugal took a hard-line approach to drugs. In the 1990s drug use spread to every part of society in this small European country. One in every hundred of the population were believed to be addicted to he...
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- Why China and India face a marriage crisis
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- 11 years ago
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- China and India - home to a third of humanity – both face a marriage crisis that will last for generations. A mere five years ago marriage patterns were normal in the two countries.
Now in China 50m ‘guanggun’ – ‘bare branches’ – look doomed to bachelor-dom, while in India 500 year-old laws are being revised to allow men to marry out of caste, village and state.
What has lead to this marriage squeeze?
First, millions women have gone “missing”.
A generation ago, a preference for sons and the greater availability of prenatal screening meant first Chinese couples, then Indian ones, started aborting female fetuses and only giving birth to boys. At its extreme, in parts of Asia, more than 120 boys were being born for every 100 girls. Now, the generation with distorted sex ratios at birth is reaching marriageable age.
The result is that single men far outnumber women.
If China had had a normal sex ratio ...
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- The Bhopal gas tragedy: Toxic legacy
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- 12 years ago
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- Decades after the worst industrial accident in India's history, many residents of Bhopal feel they were abandoned to suffer its toxic effects after tge Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984.
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- What does China want?
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- 12 years ago
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- An animated infographic depicting China’s territorial disputes. Is China trying to expand its territory?
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ONE reason China’s spectacular rise sometimes alarms its neighbours is that it is not a status quo power. From its inland, western borders to its eastern and southern seaboard, it claims territory it does not control.
In the west, China’s border dispute with India is more than a minor cartographic tiff. China claims an area of India that is three times the size of Switzerland, the state of Arunachal Pradesh.
Further west, China occupies Indian claimed territory next to Ladakh in Kashmir, an area called the Aksai Chin. China humiliated India in a brief, bloody war over the dispute in 1962. Since 1988, the two countries have put the dispute on the backburner and got on with developing commercial ties, despite occasional flare-ups.
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- Why London is the most expensive city to build in
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- 12 years ago
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- Oddly-shaped buildings and unexploded bombs are two reasons it costs more to build in London than any other city. For more video content from The Economist visit our website: http://econ.st/1qe7c8l
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- What is quantitative easing?
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- 14 years ago
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- Following the Federal Reserve's latest round of quantitative easing, The Economist's Buttonwood columnist Philip Coggan explains how easing monetary policy works
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- How do Europeans really feel about each other?
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- 15 years ago
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- Emoticon diplomacy: An animated, tongue-in-cheek infographic in which Europeans' opinions of each other are written all over their emoticon faces.
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- How tesla electricity can create wireless power
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- 16 years ago
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- Nikola Tesla built a tower to broadcast electric power. It failed. Soon, sending power through the air might be the norm
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The inventor, Nikola Tesla, dreamt of wireless power. Among his work in the realm of electricity he built a coil, later named the Tesla coil, which could illuminate lamps from across a room and throw the occasional bolt of lightning at the nearest conductor. Tesla coils remain popular today, though often for their ability to put on a fantastic lightning show.
Nikola Tesla believed in wireless power with such an enthusiasm that with the financing of JP Morgan, he constructed a giant apparatus, the Wardenclyffe Tower, at his lab in Shoreham Long Island in 1901. This was before the world was wired.
The idea? To send wireless power around the globe.
Here's how it works. Run an electric current through a coil of copper wire and the coil will produce a s...
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- Fantasy cartography: Redrawing the map of Europe
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- 16 years ago
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- Fantasy cartography: An animated redrawing of the map of Europe.
Imagine a world in which countries could move as easily as people. A suggestion for a rearranged Europe.
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- How pacemakers work
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- 16 years ago
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- How pacemakers work. Animated explanation of the mechanics of the human heart, and the devices that can assist it
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Implantable pacemakers and defibrillators are devices that apply electric shocks to maintain the rhythm of the heart and, if necessary, restart it.
As the technology improves and the list of treatable conditions grows, the number of devices being implanted is increasing steadily and now exceeds half a million a year.
The heart is made up of four chambers; two atria and two ventricles. On each side the atrium is connected to the ventricle by a one-way valve. Blood is pumped as these chambers contract and relax in turn.
The beating of a healthy heart is regulated by electrical impulses. The sequence begins as the atria fill with deoxygenated blood from the body on the right and oxygenated blood from the lungs on the left. An electrical signal from the sinoa...
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- A history of the Kashmir conflict
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- 17 years ago
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- A history of the Kashmir conflict. Read more about the Kashmir conflict here: https://econ.st/2NeRUE2
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A British Commission divided the territory into majority Muslim Pakistan and majority Hindu India. In the chaos that followed partition, 15 million people fled across the new borders and 500,000 died in rioting. Four border regions saw the worst of it: Sindh, Bengal, Punjab, and Jammu and Kashmir.
Among India's 565 princely states only Jammu and Kashmir had a Hindu Maharajah ruling over a majority Muslim population. India claimed the Maharaja decided to join India. Pakistan disputed this.
In October Pashtuns from Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province invaded Kashmir with the support of Pakistan's government. In October of 1947 the Maharaja left Srinagar. Indian troops were airlifted in but were ill-prepared for the cold and altitude. Pakistan responded wit...
