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Company showcases microchip that can download COVID-19 passport status
From digital vaxports, to ribbons to NFC (Near Field Communications) implants? What could possibly go wrong. 20 December 2021 | Jon Brown | Yahoo! News A microchip technology introduced in recent years by the Stockholm-based startup, Epicenter, is being presented…
US Senate confirms Rahm Emanuel as envoy to Japan
Republican kingmaker Sen. Ted Cruz agreed to lift his hold on the nominee in exchange for allowing a future vote related to a Russian gas pipeline Photo: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel reacts to aldermanic speeches in his honor during a…
An insider’s view of UK’s shambolic Afghan exit
A former Foreign Office diplomat suggested that out of an estimated 75,000-150,000 people who applied for evacuation under the Leave Outside the Rules scheme, fewer than 5% received assistance. Photo: Evacuees from Kabul on their way to Poland via Uzbekistan. Marcin Obara / EPA-EFE…
How Clean is Green? Not Very
A single Tesla Model S contains as much lithium as around 10,000 mobile phones. An electric car requires six times as many critical raw materials as a combustion engine. And further to this… our entire attitude about ‘green’ is absurd,…
Germany: Green Party Co-Leader Annalena Baerbock on Coalition Talks
Germany is still in the process of putting together a government following the September election. Green Party co-leader Annalena Baerbock speaks to DER SPIEGEL about progress on climate policy, the challenges of a three-party coalition. Photo: Peter Rigaud / DER SPIEGEL…
Sri Lanka: Harvesting the ‘true cinnamon’
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Considered the world’s best cinnamon, Ceylon cinnamon has been grown and produced in Sri Lanka for generations. But experienced peelers are now rare. Photo: A worker stuffs cinnamon barks with small cuttings of the bark called quillings to make one…
Once-banned statue of Leonard Peltier exhibiting at Richmond Art Center
An exhibition of a sculpture that was almost immediately censored during its first showing is now on display at the Richmond Arts Center Photos by Mike Kinney 24 September 2021 | Kathy Chouteau | The Richmond Standard An exhibition of…
The Tragic and Unusual Life of Folk Singer Karen Dalton
In a new documentary, the underrated singer’s life of depression, addiction and poverty is told while her incredible talents are celebrated Photo: Karen Dalton in 1971. ‘She used her voice like an instrument,.’ Photograph: Christian Rose/Fastimage 27 September 2021 | Jim…
Photo Essay: Niger hosts prestigious camel race in the Sahara
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The race in Ingall, northern Niger, is a highlight of a three-day nomad festival that attracts far-flung herders. Photo: Camel race finalists wait to be awarded during the Cure Salee, the annual festival for nomadic people, in Ingall, northern Niger.…
Pentagon Has Spent $14 Trillion Since 9/11
Corporate behemoths such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing and General Dynamics have been hoovering up much of that money, according to this analysis. Photo: Nov. 13, 2013: Jack Gellen, an executive with Lockheed Martin, escorts Chief of Naval Operations Adm.…
Obituary: George Wein – Newport Jazz and Folk festivals (95)
‘For half a century, if there was a significant jazz festival anywhere in the world, there was a better than even chance it was a George Wein production.’ Photo: (cropped) George Wein, right, with the trumpeter Bobby Hackett and Louis…
