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The world’s top nightclubs have at least five models per table. They aren’t there by chance From @1843mag
Students of sign languages are compiling databases, known as corpora, full of examples of how the languages are used. Programmers are trying to turn them into useful products
China’s leaders once bristled at the idea that their parliament was merely there to rubber-stamp policies. Now, @DSORennie tells “The Intelligence”, that pliancy is a point of pride
The Paris Club will negotiate over debts only once a country has an IMF programme in place and demands debtor countries ask other lenders for concessions comparable to their own
Lebanon's vaccination programme has been blighted by political nepotism is a country buckling under hyperinflation and povertyhttps://econ.st/3rlx1bx
There are over 10,000 celebrities available to record personal messages for you on Cameo. How do they figure out their fees?
To some, Napoleon was a military genius, strategic mastermind and visionary leader. To others he was a tyrant and a butcher
“They're taking CRISPR and using it to disable one by one almost every gene in hundreds of different cancer cell lines.”
@tcross81 tells @kncukier how @CancerDepMap is improving the understanding of cancer genomes and treatment, on “Babbage”
Education has become a global battle and tutors are a secret weapon From @1843mag
Centuries ago privacy-minded writers relied on cunning combinations of folds, tucks, slits and seals, or "letterlocking"
The rules of the tech game are changing: a new phase in the global tech contest is under way. Listen to “Editor’s Picks'' to hear essential stories from the latest issue of The Economist, read aloud
Today on “The Intelligence”: reading the signals at China’s parliamentary shindig, the first papal visit to Iraq and the continued tribulations of the nightclub scene
Some 13% of Chileans are now recorded as indigenous, up from around 5% in the census of 2002
Up to the middle of this decade, China will focus on targets for economic growth and objectives such as making the country greener, more innovative and safer from foreign pressure
Japanese politicians hoped that the accident would give way to a new "post-disaster" era. But it was, perhaps, too much to expect a revolution
In 2019 Greensill claimed to have arranged financing worth more than $140bn to over 10m customers. It is now fighting off bankruptcy
More female executives are being appointed, but as our annual glass-ceiling index of female empowerment shows, progress is not happening fast enough
Politicians have always lifted ideas from other parties. What makes the steal interesting is the choice of ideas and the dexterity with which the trick is performed
Governments have a chance to create a new social safety net for the post-covid world—they must seize it. Our cover this week
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