Dedicated Schoolgirl Identifies Japanese Wolf Specimen Hiding Amid Museum Collection, Encouraged to Publish Scientific Paper

Courtesy of Hinako Komori From Japan’s metropolitan heart comes the story of a young woman with a love for nature getting her paws in the door of a scientific career after identifying a taxidermied Japanese wolf gathering dust in a museum collection. The Japanese wolf has been extinct for over a century, but for 10-year-old …

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French Jews live in fear amid rising antisemitism following Hamas attacks – POLITICO

Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. SARCELLES, France — In the usually lively “Little Jerusalem” neighborhood of Sarcelles, the only people loitering are gun-toting French soldiers on patrol. Since Hamas’ deadly assault against Israel on October 7, this largely Jewish enclave in the northern suburbs of Paris has gone eerily …

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At what point does your taste in music officially get old? There’s a study for that – National

It happened again at the gym. In the middle of my workout, some godawful song started playing: another wretchedly over-Auto Tuned melody-less mid-tempo mumble rap thing with zero energy. It just meandered aimlessly for about four minutes before segueing into something else. My reaction was both emotional and physical. How could anyone possibly think this …

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Northern Ireland’s ‘peace babies’ share stories of a divided Belfast

In Northern Ireland, the generation born after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement is known as the “peace babies”. Yet, 25 years after the end of the conflict between nationalists, who want a united Ireland, and unionists, who want to remain part of the United Kingdom, the trauma of The Troubles still weighs on the younger …

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