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A Catholic Polish midwife who delivered 3,000 babies at Auschwitz remembered 75 years after camp’s liberation Auschwitz-Birkenau

A Catholic Polish midwife who delivered 3,000 babies at Auschwitz remembered 75 years after camp’s liberation

This month marked 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a concentration camp where an estimated 1.1 million people were murdered. But it was also where 3,000 babies were born because of the brave work of a Stanislawa Leszczyńska, a Polish Catho…
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February 5, 2020
Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund sold nearly all its Tesla shares before the carmaker’s recent 112% surge (TSLA) Elon Musk

Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund sold nearly all its Tesla shares before the carmaker’s recent 112% surge (TSLA)

REUTERS/Steve NesiusSaudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund sold most of its massive Tesla position in the fourth quarter, before the stock surged 112%, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The fund previously held 8.2 million shares — now it's down to 39,151. In 2018, Tesla CEO Elon Musk named the wealth fund as…
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February 5, 2020
University gift shop displayed black leader dolls by hanging them from a model tree Michelle Obama

University gift shop displayed black leader dolls by hanging them from a model tree

A Michigan State University gift shop displayed a collection of miniature dolls of black leaders like Michelle Obama and Harriet Tubman by hanging them from a small tree. Upset by this extreme insensitivity, grad student Krystal Rose Davis-Dunn says she asked the staff if they noticed anything wrong with the…
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February 5, 2020
Not So Friendly Skies: Flight Shame Can’t Push People Into Giving Up Flying Flygskam

Not So Friendly Skies: Flight Shame Can’t Push People Into Giving Up Flying

Despite flying being the single fastest way to grow our individual carbon footprint, people still want to fly. Passenger numbers even grew by 3.3% globally last year alone. The hype around “Flygskam” – a global movement championed by climate activist Greta Thunberg that encourages people to stop travelling by plane…
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February 5, 2020