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Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the magnitude of #inequality across time, space and all its dimensions.

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World Inequality Report 2026
YouTube video by World Inequality Lab
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December 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Mathematical interval notation is not the same everywhere! For example Danes and French use different ones, see fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interva...
Intervalle (mathématiques) — Wikipédia
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December 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Fungi might even consume radiation - that’s one hell of an appetite! www.bbc.com/future/artic...
The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation
Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield space travellers from cosmic rays?
www.bbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Not against some difference, but 100$ seems really high www.bbc.com/news/article...
US hikes national park fees for foreigners to put 'American families first'
Non-residents will soon have to pay $100 per person to enter 11 of the United States' most popular parks.
www.bbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Where Do the Children Play?
On the need for a world without us
unpublishablepapers.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Interesting way to look at equations: gods.art/articles/equ...
Caleb Madrigal
gods.art
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
If you ever wondered how the metro stations interchanges look like you can now see it in 3D : stations.albertguillaumes.cat
Stations and transfers
A gallery of drawings depicting the topology of metro stations from different European cities.
stations.albertguillaumes.cat
September 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Who would have thought that walkable cities allow people to walk more ? www.nature.com/articles/s41... Anyhow, still good we have some numbers, now if only people will accept walking more is healthier ...
Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity - Nature
By analysing the smartphone data of 2,112,288 participants, in particular observing and comparing the activity of the same individual in two different environments, we find that increases in the walka...
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August 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Interesting, let's see if they get to the next level and hack the traffic light to trigger it :p.
www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/05...
Street smarts: how a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully
Dr Vladimir Dinets, a zoologist who studies animal behavior, ecology, and conservation, is the author of a recently published Frontiers in Ethology article that
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May 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If you ever thought an address is something simple: www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falseh...
Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses
www.mjt.me.uk
April 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Wonder how many problems would be solved faster if only people would talk more to each other: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?
Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Ariane 6 soared to the skies once again! 🚀

This time, with a triple boost from Vinci!

After the deployment of its passenger, Ariane 6's Vinci engine’s third boost put the upper stage into a reentry orbit to safely burn up through Earth’s atmosphere, preventing accumulation of space debris.
March 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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So I didn't know, but Europe already has a backup of PubMed, the database of biomedical research publications. The US PubMed broke down over the weekend. And here is our alternative: https://europepmc.org/ #pubmed #pmc
Europe PMC
Europe PMC is an archive of life sciences journal literature.
europepmc.org
March 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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A new paper on microplastics accumulating in the brain was just published in Nature Medicine. I've reviewed the background and main findings in a new Ground Truths post erictopol.substack.com/p/the-microp...
February 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Life expectancy in the US
—by educational attainment, by county
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—the growing inequalities
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January 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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#Orwell’s 1940 review of Mein Kampf is an astounding read. It is very educational to read literature from just before historical events. In here we find that up to 1939 Hitler was regarded rather favorably by many, for reasons we might recognize today. Frightening: bookmarks.reviews/george-orwel...
George Orwell's 1940 Review of Mein Kampf
bookmarks.reviews
January 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Instagram has now banned the #Democrat

But Republican is still there.
January 21, 2025 at 6:45 AM