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Why retranslate the literary classics?
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Why retranslate the literary classics?

Retranslations are making their way into book covers. While browsing the shelves of a library or a bookshop in search of the adventures of Gregor Samsa or Raskolnikov, you may be facing an impossible dilemma. Which version of the Metamorphosis or Crime and Punishment should you choose? Because in a particularly well-stocked library or bookshop, […]
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This is how tobacco damages our cells
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This is how tobacco damages our cells

file d qzfs Shutterstock / Mr.Exen My father smoked a pipe for some time, and I vividly remember that sticky black substance – tar – which stuck to the device’s filter. Now imagine this stuff going into your lungs, and coating their walls. The picture is unpleasant, to say the least. With the countless studies […]
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Michelle O'Neill becomes first minister of Northern Ireland: how Sinn Féin reinvented itself from IRA associations to realistic leftwing alternative
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How Sinn Féin reinvented itself from IRA associations to realistic leftwing alternative

Addressing the newly restored Northern Ireland Assembly, Sinn Féin First Minister Michelle O’Neill assured everyone that she would be working equally for “Catholics, Protestants and dissenters”. This iconic quote from the founder of Irish Republicanism, Theobald Wolfe Tone, needs no contextualisation in Ireland. It was not just meant to reassure those among unionists who might […]
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‘A deeply troubling discovery’: Earth may have already passed the crucial 1.5°C warming limit
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‘A deeply troubling discovery’: Earth may have already passed the crucial 1.5°C warming limit

Global temperatures have already exceeded 1.5°C warming and may pass 2°C later this decade, according to a world-first study I led. The worrying findings, based on temperature records contained in sea sponge skeletons, suggest global climate change has progressed much further than previously thought. Human-caused greenhouse gas emissions drive global warming. Obtaining accurate information about […]
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A 365-million-year-old fish with an extreme underbite showcases vertebrate diversity
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A 365-million-year-old fish with an extreme underbite showcases vertebrate diversity

Artist reconstruction of Alienacanthus malkowskii, a 365-million-year-old placoderm fish from Poland and Morocco. (Beat Scheffold & Christian Klug), Author provided Vertebrates are defined as all animals that possess a vertebral column, or backbone. Most living vertebrates also possess jaws, teeth and paired fins or limbs. Fossils of the earliest vertebrates help us understand not only […]
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Mining the depths: Norway’s deep-sea exploitation could put it in environmental and legal murky waters
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Mining the depths: Norway’s deep-sea exploitation could put it in environmental and legal murky waters

Icebergs floating in the ocean near Svalbard, an Arctic island chain on the edge of Norway’s proposed exploitation zone. (Christopher Michel/Flickr), CC BY Norway has a reputation for environmental leadership, from championing international biodiversity policies to its wilderness protection and ambitious biodiversity regulations. Now it is leading into another area, leveraging its long legacy of […]
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