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‘It’s a Sad Result.’ Mixed Feelings in Hong Kong Over U.S. Announcement on City’s Autonomy Hongkong

‘It’s a Sad Result.’ Mixed Feelings in Hong Kong Over U.S. Announcement on City’s Autonomy

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that Hong Kong was no longer sufficiently autonomous from mainland China, following Beijing’s announcement that it plans to implement a national security law for the territory. The proposed law, which sparked a fresh round of protests in the city, targets secession, sedition, terrorism…
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May 28, 2020
Decoding Chinese intrusion at LAC: India should not lower guard despite Beijing’s conciliatory tone, here’s why China's Strategy

Decoding Chinese intrusion at LAC: India should not lower guard despite Beijing’s conciliatory tone, here’s why

The threat of “war” and the context make it obvious that Xi Jinping demands both domestic and global attention. In Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro’s black comedy Wag the Dog, a war was fabricated to turn public attention away from a presidential sex scandal. So why are we talking…
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May 28, 2020
Narwhals buzz and click when they get close to food in rare, relatable audio Greenland

Narwhals buzz and click when they get close to food in rare, relatable audio

By Amanda Yeo2020-05-28 04:46:39 UTC It turns out that narwhals don't just look like electric drills. In a wonderfully serendipitous turn of events, it turns out the big-toothed whales sound like drills as well. Geophysicists worked with Inuit hunters last July to record rarely heard narwhal sounds in Greenland, collecting…
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May 28, 2020
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807) Alexander von Humboldt

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807)

This article is about the Swiss-American biologist and geologist. For the American ornithologist, illustrator and artist, see Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Louis Agassiz Born May 28, 1807Haut-Vully, Switzerland Died December 14, 1873 (aged 66)Cambridge, Massachusetts Citizenship United States Fields Paleontology Glaciology Geology Natural history Institutions University of NeuchâtelHarvard UniversityCornell University Alma mater…
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May 28, 2020
A Black Swan With Teeth Black Swan

A Black Swan With Teeth

For years, I have been warning that during the age of permanent stimulus (which began in earnest with the Federal Reserve’s reaction to the dotcom crash of 2000), each successive economic contraction would have to be met with ever larger, increasingly ineffective, doses of monetary and fiscal stimulus to keep…
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May 28, 2020