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Susan Thornton et al, ChinaFile

On July 1, Xi Jinping gave a speech marking the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party. After walking Party members through China's recent past and glorious future, Xi turned to Taiwan. "Resolving the Taiwan question and realizing China's complete reunification is a historic mission and an unshakable commitment of the Communist Party of China,"

Pushing off vertical surface helped squirrels adjust their speed for a better landing.

Richard Ratcliffe, Chatham House

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian charity worker arrested on holiday in Iran in 2016 and jailed for five years after being found guilty of undisclosed national security charges. At the end of her term, she was sentenced to another year in prison and given a one-year travel ban after being found guilty of ‘spreading propaganda against the regime'. The United Nations and British government have both rejected the charges against her. Here, her husband... Читать дальше...

1. Squirrels show off killer parkour moves as they leap from branch to branch  Ars Technica
2. (VIDEO) Watch squirrels perform parkour-like stunts for peanuts  Livescience.com
3. That's nuts! Study shows how squirrels leap and land without falling  Daily Mail
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The Auditor-General of South Africa is one of two national audit offices recognised by the World Bank for having full independence to carry out their mandates.

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have linked together, or "entangled," the mechanical motion and electronic properties of a tiny blue crystal, giving it a quantum edge in measuring electric fields with record sensitivity that may enhance understanding of the universe.

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Videos of squirrels leaping from bendy branches across impossibly large gaps, parkouring off walls, scrambling to recover from tricky landings.

The newly assembled genomes of 26 different genetic lines of corn illustrate the crop's rich genetic diversity and could pave the way for a better understanding of what genetic mechanisms account for crop traits prized by farmers.

You can buy it fully furnished for an extra $1.2 million.

The European Union seeking to impose a carbon tax on imports would be detrimental to Australia’s export industry, its Australian energy and emissions reduction minister has warned. The minister, Angus Taylor, urged against a “new wave” of European protectionism that would significantly bruise Australia’s export industry – on which a large portion of its economy hangs. Australia pulls in some $284bn from its export products, while its service exports bring in around $75.6bn, according to the Observatory... Читать дальше...

Situated in what was originally one of Melbourne’s early industrial districts, Holme Apartments are located on an island site in Collingwood. With deftly woven gestures to the working and cultural history of the neighbourhood, this residential tower is bordered by Cambridge, Derby, Langridge and Wellington Streets and highlights exemplary design, robust materials and the integrity of vision.

If you grow your business beyond your brand, you're doomed to fail.

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If you, like me, somehow always seem to have a stash of sweetened condensed milk in the back of cupboard, it might be time to finally use it up. I’ve always kept at least a couple cans on hand, just in case of emergency, which in the past 18 months has expanded to a good half-dozen, thanks to the milk shortages last…

Acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey said during an interview Tuesday that New York City’s mandate requiring residents to show proof of vaccination before entering indoor spaces is akin to showing freedom papers.

Red squirrel.

Ordinarily with games, something grabs me, I become dangerously obsessed with it to the exclusion of all else, and then suddenly abandon it for no reason a fortnight later.

Athens has appointed a chief heat officer, the first such appointment in Europe and only the second in the world. Chief heat officer Eleni Myrivili spoke with The World’s Lydia Emmanouilidou in Athens.

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Joe Rogan will be missing in action at this weekend’s UFC 265 card in Houston.

Please come work for us. We’ll do anything. We’ll give you free parking. We’ll give you 10 percent off in-store purchases. We’ll give you company swag where you can barely see the company logo, so it’s basically just cool free clothes. We will do literally anything to get you to work for us except pay you enough.

On its surface, Yume Penguin Monogatari seems like a standard, early ‘90s NES platformer. It features a lovable hero, colorful environments, and a catchy, chiptune soundtrack from the old masters at Konami. But beneath all that, this classic side-scroller is also so bluntly, nakedly fatphobic that I couldn’t help but…