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Teams in China are racing to discover which wild animal at a Wuhan food market was the source of the corona virus: snakes, pangolins or bats? We don’t know yet. What is clear is how seriously China is now clamping down on the trade in wildlife. Recently, the country’s highest authorities enacted a permanent ban. …
History repeating itself In the 19th Century the United States expanded its borders to the PacificOcean, and in the process killed tens of thousands of native Americans, herding the remainder into the most dismal, waterless and unproductive land. Then they signed treaties that, to this very day, are being ignored and broken, something to do …
The service industry was meant to be the “engine” of our economy. Whatever happened? Where did “service” disappear to? Supermarkets now want to charge you for service but get you to do the work yourself. You pick from the shelves and often bag the goods yourself. One member of staff supervises six or eight …
The theory that learning a foreign language has a protective effect on the brain has been boosted by a new study showing that people with multiple sclerosis (MS) experience less cognitive decline if they are bilingual. When a team at the University of Reading compared the mental abilities of bilingual and monolingual MS patients, they …
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it. Karl Popper, quoted in The Times Believe those who seek the truth; doubt those who find it.” Andre Gide (The Week 21 March 2020)
