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DId you know that honeybees fall out of the air when the lights are turned off? I didn't!

Hu Wei is the vice-chairman of the Public Policy Research Center of the Counselor's Office of the State Council, the chairman of Shanghai Public Policy Research Association, the chairman of the Academic Committee of the Chahar Institute, a professor, and a doctoral supervisor. For extended reading, click here to view the author's article on “How did Deng Xiaoping coordinate the domestic and international affairs?”

The right will give the homeless nothing but the streets because they produce a spectacle of wretchedness that wins them wide support from voters.

She had a chance to show great leadership. Then she lifted the mandates—and increased the risk of more infections.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is rapidly reshaping both countries’ international relations and it’s especially timely for this Visualizing Ukraine's Trade infographic from Visual Capitalist to take a look into the Ukraine’s top trading partners and products. I really like this visualization, and

YouTube still draws a hard line on Trump’s rigged election claims. Two years later, it doesn't hold up.

What a price hike for a U.K. supermarket chain’s popular meal deal tells us about the way we perceive food in a time of inflation.

Two decades have passed since pop-punk exploded in the American music scene, yet the quintessentially suburban, teen-centric music still seems to bounce...

…modulations on a theme…

Lumen Technologies, an American company that operates one of the largest Internet backbones and carries a significant percentage of the world's Internet traffic, said today it will stop routing traffic for organizations based in Russia. Lumen's decision comes just days…

Russian authorities and multinational companies have erected a digital barricade between the country and the West, erasing the last remnants of independent information online.

Program is called the "Cislunar Highway Patrol System"

People have always repaired things. What’s new is that there is such an abundance of information and expertise available online to help anyone do repair.

He's at the negotiating table.

Taking down jets with mythical weapons that do not exist, would still be taking down jets.

The charts tell various aspects of the story, from the deadly force of the disease and its disparate impact to the signs of political polarization and the United States’ struggle to marshal an effective response.

You will probably start to hear a lot more about Transnistria in the near future. Transnistria sits in between Moldova and Ukraine and was formed in the 1990s as a pro-Soviet breakway state from Moldova. After a brief civil war it is now governed independently and it’s security is overseen by “a three-party (Russia, Moldova, […]

Blacksmiths used to making vambraces and pauldrons are now forging spikes to protect Ukrainian checkpoints.

Technology/science Resources Information For a long time, we had no clue. We didn’t know about germs or viruses. We thought that ulcers were caused by pastrami sandwiches. We went to the barb…

Britain has for decades helped a mafia state stash its stolen money. Our long-term security depends on cracking down, says author Oliver Bullough

The U.S. is nearing 1 million recorded COVID-19 deaths without the social reckoning that such a tragedy should provoke. Why?