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Plantwatch: the mysterious twitching telegraph plant that baffled Darwin
The telegraph plant (
Desmodium gyrans
, also known asCodariocalyx motorius
), is very strange. At the base of its larger paddle-shaped leaves are smaller leaflets that can be seen constantly twitching around in circles during the day for no obvious reason. These elliptical movements are driven by special motor cells …Nigel Farage, Jordan Peterson & co worship each other in alt-right heaven | John Crace
Fighting the culture wars doesn’t come cheap these days. Tickets for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference at the Excel Centre in London cost a discounted £450. A bargain said the organisers, as the original price was £1500. Maybe they had a point. All 4,000 tickets were sold long …
How Spain’s radically different approach to migration helped its economy soar
Tuesday briefing: Europe faces tough choices on Ukraine as US pursues own path
Good morning. Yesterday, European leaders
attended an emergency meeting in Paris
to discuss how best to respond to the shift in Ukraine policy from the US under Donald Trump. Today, US and Russian officials willmeet in Saudi Arabia
for preliminary peace talks. And while Volodymyr …Campaigners urge F-35 fighter jet producing nations to stop supplying Israel
More than 200 organisations worldwide have called on nations involved in producing F-35 fighter jets to “immediately halt all arms transfers to Israel” amid fears they have failed to prevent the planes from being used to violate international law.
The letter, signed by 232 civil society organisations, was sent on …
‘The lurch to the right scares me’: could the left surprise in German election?
As the world’s richest person meddles at will on behalf of the far right in the German election campaign, a leftist party calling for taxing billionaires out of existence has risen from the ashes in the race’s final stretch.
The far-left Linke, successor to the East German communists who built …
Hundreds protest in Cook Islands over PM’s handling of deal with China
Hundreds of protesters have marched on Cook Islands’ parliament to oppose prime minister Mark Brown’s recent decisions, including a failure to properly consult its closest partner New Zealand over a deal to deepen ties with China.
Roughly 400 protesters – led by opposition parties – gathered outside the capital city …
Support for ESG proposals at record low driven by US investors, report shows
Support for shareholder proposals aimed at tackling environmental and social risks hit a record low last year, figures show, amid a “worrying retreat” by investors, particularly in the US.
A report compiled by the responsible investment campaign group ShareAction found that, out of 279 environmental, social and governance (ESG) shareholder …
Did you solve it? The simple geometry problem that fools almost everyone
1. Tricky triangle
What is the length of AD, the dashed line?
Solution: x = 1
The reason that most people fail to solve this one is because …