This monstrous mama laid the world’s largest egg
An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered the National Geographic ...
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The Wartime Organization That Brought Hollywood Stars Like Marilyn Monroe and Nancy Sinatra to the Front Lines to Entertain the Troops
Established on this day in 1941, the United Service Organizations offers wholesome entertainment options to off-duty service ...
30 Moments In History That Got Ghosted By Humanity
We humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, so naturally, certain things have slipped through the cracks ...
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Crossed Wires: DeepSeek, hand-wringing, hysteria and the changing geopolitics of technology
DeepSeek released a chatbot called DeepSeek-R1 on 20 January (a nimbler, cheaper cousin of their 2024 DeepSeek-V3). They claimed it cost them under $6m to train. Given that AI elephants like OpenAI ...
Israelis brace to learn the fate of Hamas' youngest hostage, taken captive as a baby
TEL AVIV — On lampposts, in shop windows and on smartphone screens across Israel, the posters show a smiling, red-headed baby ...
Playing poker with the elephant: Canada should call America’s bluff, and raise a new trade agreement
If the goal is to have a stable, rules-based investment environment ensuring access to the larger market, a new settlement ...
Peaceful pawprints on a complex diplomatic relationship
The practice of China lending pandas to other nations began in the 7th century. Here's why this sign of international good ...
Country Life11d
‘Were the soil a jungle, the worm would be its elephant’: Why everything you thought about soil is probably wrong
Did you know that soil contains 59% of all the earth's species? As an exhibition at Somerset House, exploring its vital role ...
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How Switzerland is managing foreign aid at a time of global upheaval
Switzerland, like other rich nations, is grappling with a shrinking foreign aid budget as the war in Ukraine forces a reset ...
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Elephants can’t pursue their release from a Colorado zoo because they’re not human, court says
It wanted the animals released to one of the two accredited elephant sanctuaries in the United States because the group doesn’t think they can no longer live in the wild. The zoo argued moving the ...
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Elephants can't pursue their release from a Colorado zoo because they're not human, court says
It wanted the animals released to one of the two accredited elephant sanctuaries in the United States because the group doesn’t think they can no longer live in the wild. The zoo argued moving ...