SpaceX oddity
How Elon Musk sent a car towards Mars
This week a Starman sitting in a tin can is navigating the heavens, soundtracked by David Bowie. How did it – and we – get there?
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Arrivederci, my beautiful country
Italy is being driven into the arms of fascists
The Macerata gun attacks last weekend are a consequence of the anti-immigrant hate speech spewed out by Italy’s rightwing party leaders, including Berlusconi, writes Rula Jebreal
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Talk is cheap
Focus groups make us feel our views matter – but no one with power cares what we think. By Liza Featherstone
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'France is 50 years behind'
The scandal of French autism treatment
A reliance on psychoanalysis sees children with autism in France going undiagnosed, being placed in psychiatric units and even being removed from their parents
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Women at the Winter Olympics
It’s been 94 years since the first Winter Games, but still women do not compete on the same terms as men. How far have we come and how far to the finish line?
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Cry me a river
Justin Timberlake takes a kicking
Justin Timberlake being upstaged by a sheet with a picture of Prince on it at his Super Bowl show is poetic justice for ripping off Janet Jackson’s bra at the 2004 halftime performance
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How dangerous is Jordan B Peterson?
Man who kicked a hornet’s nest
Since his confrontation with Cathy Newman, the Canadian academic’s book has become a bestseller. But his arguments are riddled with ‘pseudo-facts’ and conspiracy theories
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Santa Cruz del Islote
Up to 1,200 people live on an island the size of two football fields in the middle of the Caribbean, making it one of the most densely populated islands on the planet
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Hot stuff
How to cook the perfect vindaloo
Vindaloo is a tangy Goan dish with sweet spices, not the familiar British chilli-eating contest. If you want the real version, here’s how to make it
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