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Midgaans and Ethiopians Are Fighting for Last Place in Somaliland
Above, the Jaylaani barbershop. Below to the left, a Gaboye in front of the shop. The Jaylaani barbershop in the center of Hargeisa, Somaliland, does good business. It’s nothing special as far as...
View ArticleHaters Gonna Hate Because They're Haters, Says Science
Haters Gonna Hate Because They're Haters, Says Science
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Polyamory Is a Good Way to Be Slutty Without Hurting Anyone
Polyamory supporters in San Francisco. via WikiCommons. Tall, dark and handsome. That’s the general idea of a perfect husband when you’re a little girl. You can’t really imagine what he’ll look like,...
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Question of the Day: Are Western Airstrikes the Solution in Syria?
A bombed building in Syria. Photo by Rick Findler. After laying the blame for Syria's recent chemical attacks on Assad's regime, John Kerry indicated that America and its Western allies were moving...
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How Do You Kill Giant Cats? Get Some Giant Dogs
Photo by Jake Weigl The animals in Australia’s Northern Territory tend to be bigger and stranger than wildlife elsewhere, so when reports emerged in June that thousands of feral cats, reportedly...
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Turkey and Greece Are Working Together to Punish Dissidents
Anti-Erdogan graffiti on the side of an ambulance during the recent unrest in Istanbul – which was caused, according to Erdogan, by disruptive foreign plotters. (Photo via) While Turkey stagnates in...
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Sweden’s Shitty Sewage-Sludge Debate
Illustration by Anette Moi In order for crops to grow, you need shit – literally, agriculture requires some sort of fertiliser. Traditionally, farmers have used cow manure because it contains tonnes...
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World Peace Update
In my one week absence from this column, things got just about as bad as they've ever been in both Egypt and Syria. First off, the Egyptian army continued its apparent bid to spark an all-out civil...
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I Joined NYC's Most Boring Cult
New York's SoHo neighbourhood has plenty of art galleries, and it certainly has plenty of crazy people. But an art-gallery cult? The Terrain Gallery, owned by a group called the Aesthetic Realism...
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Japan is Opening Internet Fasting Camps Because 500,000 Students are "Pathologically Addicted"
View ArticleWe Asked Pete Wentz, Haim and Phoenix Questions from a Religious Studies GCSE
We Asked Pete Wentz, Haim and Phoenix Questions from a Religious Studies GCSE
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Egypt's Foreign Aid Isn't Going Anywhere Fast
(Photo by Justin Wilkes) Following what a recent Human Rights Watch report called “the most serious incident of mass unlawful killings in modern Egyptian history”, the international community’s...
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Border Officers Were Abusing Schedule 7 Way Before David Miranda
David Miranda. (Screen grab via) The UK Terrorism Act of 2000 was a real kick in the dick for fans of civil liberties. As well as giving police stop and search powers that were so arbitrary and...
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Hanging Out in One of London's First Trans Clothing Shops
I’m standing in a shop in Leytonstone staring at a pair of fake breasts. However, the place is far from the fancy dress stag night vibe that you might associate with such a product; in fact, the...
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Pretty Girl Bullshit: When Did Modern Romance Turn into Cold War?
Christine Keeler, the former British showgirl who was at the heart of the Cold War's Profumo sex scandal. Britain, 2013 – not a great place to live, is it, really? It looks like we're off to war...
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A Few Impressions: What We Talk About When We Talk About a Couple of Carver's...
Image by Courtney Nicholas Yesterday I was roasted for a Comedy Central programme that will air on Labour Day. All the comics at the roast were great and seeing them perform their monologues amazed...
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The Place Where Hitler Killed Himself Is Now a Playground
This slide sits atop the site of Hitler's cremation. By the afternoon of his suicide, Adolf Hitler hadn’t seen the sun in ten days. He had been living in a concrete bunker 28 feet below the ruins of...
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We Are Not Men: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Desperation is mostly inseparable from masculinity. Men strain for fame, for female attention, for sad, trivial triumphs over one another. We are a people perpetually trying to figure it all out –...
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Question of the Day: Was Miley Cyrus Twerking an Important Cultural Moment?
All anyone seems to be talking about at the moment is Syria. And Miley Cyrus. And her ferociously embarrassing twerking and manic tongue lashing at the VMAs. But will the internet chatter dissipate...
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