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Iran is shutting down for two days because of the heat www.nytimes.com/2023/08/0…
“[Abortion is] the third most commonly performed surgical procedure in Australia but nobody, anywhere, is analysing or even supplying accurate statistical information as to numbers, types or reasons.” insidestory.org.au/tangled-w…
Why plastic recycling doesn’t work informationisbeautiful.net/visualiza…
More than 137k applications for parent visas stuck in the pipeline in Australia, and its grown enormously recently www.theguardian.com/world/202…
“history is an edit war. Truth, factual and moral, hangs in the balance” www.wired.com/story/one…
Interesting profiles of some of the last internet cafes, and how important they were as third spaces restofworld.org/2023/inte…
Math That Lets You Think Locally but Act Globally www.quantamagazine.org/math-that…
A new study finds that 47,000 Russian combatants have died in Ukraine www.economist.com/graphic-d…
Is Tennessee a Democracy? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc…
The Complicated History of Pointy Hats daily.jstor.org/the-compl…
Orange Is the New Black Signalled the Rot Inside the Streaming Economy www.newyorker.com/culture/n…
This is a great feature on Sri Lankans that have travelled to Australia by boat. Written by Sri Lankans. watchdog.team/article/t…
The rains in India are horrific www.economist.com/graphic-d…
Stingy RSL Pours Wine With Full Centimetre Of Air At Top www.betootaadvocate.com/breaking-…
“Argentinian Soccer Fans Decry a New Bronze Statue of a Former Club Coach for Its Comically Large Cojones” news.artnet.com/art-world…
The IRS has “quietly built its own prototype system to allow Americans to file tax returns digitally and free of charge”. It will be available to a “small” group by… January. Almost every day now I wonder what decade America is in www.washingtonpost.com/business/…
Posted without comment www.economist.com/graphic-d…
“if wood burning were mostly a working class habit, it would probably have been banned already” www.theguardian.com/commentis…