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Spot the pol!
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Canada’s FEQ Gets The Festival Experience Right
Stereogum’s Annie Zaleski reviews the Festival d’été de Québec (FEQ), praising it as a rare example of a large festival that gets the experience right amid a wider concert industry slump marked by soaring ticket prices and cancelled tours. Held across three days in Quebec City, the festival stood out for its compact, well-organised layout,…
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I am once again begging the folks in USC’s athletic department to study some Greek literature
An OutKick opinion column criticises the University of Southern California’s athletic department, arguing its staff should be more familiar with Greek literature. The piece is framed as a repeated complaint, suggesting this is not the first time the writer has raised the issue, though the article text provided cuts off before detailing the specific incident…
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From coffee grounds to guinea pig bedding – the composters keeping it local
A husband-and-wife-style business partnership in Machynlleth, Powys, has built an award-winning community composting scheme that turns food waste and other organic scraps into locally used, peat-free compost. Steph Robinson and ffin Jordao, who met at the Centre for Alternative Technology, run Criw Compostio, collecting waste from paying cafes and businesses and returning the finished compost…
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Shark scientists gets £1m to help protect them
Scientists have received nearly £1 million to study the movement and breeding grounds of three endangered shark species found in English waters, as part of Natural England’s Species Recovery Programme. The funding will support research into the blue shark, porbeagle and tope, helping to fill significant gaps in knowledge about their distribution and abundance and…
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Britain set for butterfly boom after hot spring
An expert has predicted a “bumper summer of butterflies” in Britain, following an unusually warm, dry spring and continuing hot weather that has favoured the insects. Prof Richard Fox, head of science at Butterfly Conservation in Newton Abbot, Devon, said the conditions have put butterflies “in a good place” to put on a colourful display…
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Red State Freedom Is Better for the Environment Than European Green Socialism
The article text was not available to review: the supplied page showed only a JavaScript and cookie prompt. Its title advances the claim that US Republican-led states deliver better environmental outcomes than European green policy, but this cannot be independently assessed from the material provided. As the article’s arguments, evidence, authorship and publication context were…
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Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don’t know something
Researchers from French and Italian universities have found that giving people access to AI advice makes them far less willing to admit they don’t know an answer, even when the AI’s advice is wrong. The study, led by Valerio Capraro of the University of Milano-Bicocca, warns that AI is eroding critical thinking and judgment, as…