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Which marvel of nature can build a 2 metre Orb Web with a silk that ranks as the World's toughest natural fibre? - The answer is the Darwin's Bark Spider and this real life "Spider Woman", no bigger than a thumbnail has baffled scientists with her web of steel.
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Full speech transcript https://medium.com/p/77bcb3746378
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Having lost her majority, and with complicated Brexit negotiations and fields of wheat on her doorstep, Theresa May is determined to "get on with the job of government" (and to seek the Holy Grail).
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This is the introduction to Kate Tempest's performance at Glastonbury 2017, in which she echoes British Prime Minister Theresa May's words back at her, while referencing Conservative cuts, the Grenfell fire and much more.
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The Conservative Party contracted a secretive call centre during the election campaign which may have broken data protection and election laws, a Channel 4 News investigation has found.
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President Trump loves pipelines, and he says everyone else does too. So he shouldn't have a problem with one being built through one of his buildings, right?
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Women are lucky, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure: the clitoris! In this humorous and instructive animated short film, find out its unrecognized anatomy and its unknown herstory.
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There are few roads in Lesotho. There are even fewer mountain bikers. Here the horse is supreme and the myriad horse trails that have been carved through its steep and rugged mountains are its lifeblood. Horsemen ply these trails, just as they have for generations, riding...
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With barely enough shelter to house even 11% of the homeless people on its main island, Hawaii lawmakers struggle for solutions amid rising costs of living and low wages. But one group of homeless Hawaiians has taken matters into their own hands, forming a highly organized...
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Decades ago, there was a local campaign of resistance against the construction of a second airport near the city of Nantes, in western France. This resistance culminated in the establishment of a self-organized autonomous zone, known as the ZAD. Over 40,000 people take part...
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What is the best life we can live? How can we cope with whatever the universe throws at us and keep thriving nonetheless? The ancient Greco-Roman philosophy of Stoicism explains that while we may not always have control over the events affecting us, we can have control over...
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On Sunday, June 18th, 2017, Tai Amri Spann-Ryan gave a powerful and moving sermon at the Lawrence, KS Unitarian Fellowship in celebration of Juneteenth and the on-going struggle for liberation. The talk audibly left the crowd speechless for several seconds afterward. It is...
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In the wake of Katrina, New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward was one of the few neighborhoods where relief came slowly. Less than 25% of its pre-Katrina population has returned and many houses have been abandoned or mowed down. As a result, the USDA officially listed the...
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In 1991, arborist David Milarch had a near-death experience that inspired a personal quest to reforest our planet. He would harvest the genetics of the world's oldest trees, initiate tree-planting efforts to combat climate change, and help restore the planet’s health...
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In response to the police shooting death of Philando Castile, Trevor shares his own experience as a black man facing law enforcement discrimination in America.
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After the Finsbury Park mosque attack, we asked a white person to explain themselves.
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In 2015 the AJ+ team followed groups of refugees as they made their way across Europe. Now, 2 years later, Dena Takruri catches up with some of the people she met to find out how they are getting on.
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John Waters' rollicking commencement speech at The Rhode Island School of Design offered up some good one-liners and a few pearls of wisdom, though phrased, quite naturally, in an irreverent way.
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In today's Trews I read from my recent blog about the Grenfell tragedy, which you can read here.
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Moby says, “working on ‘In This Cold Place’ and ‘Are You Lost In the World Like Me?’ with Steve Cutts has been a creative highlight for me. He's such a great animator and activist, and I'm so happy he agreed to make these two videos.”
Last week, Moby & The Void Pacific Choir...
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Google is attempting to bring the cultural and spiritual dimensions of Uluru to its Street View platform. To do this, they have created an interactive, audiovisual guided tour, narrated by traditional owner Sammy Wilson and with song and music by Anangu elder Reggie Uluru.
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Today in the corporate media, Venezuela’s economic problems are used to paint the country as a failed state, in need of foreign-backed regime change.
To get the Bolivarian government’s side of the crisis, Abby Martin interviews Venezuela’s Minister of Economic Planning...
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Chalk Girl: a protester at the heart of Hong Kong’s democracy movement. Two years since her arrest made her an accidental hero of the pro-democracy umbrella movement, the 16-year-old must decide whether to rejoin the battle alongside the 'localist' youth. As elections loom...
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The first and last rule of capitalism is this: Make More Capital. And it's killing us. But we can build better systems. There are plenty of options. We can change the rules.
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"Austerity is a matter of life and death." Rapper Lowkey watched people die with his own eyes, this is what he thinks should happen to the criminals responsible for the Grenfell Tower fire.
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Roughly 30 per cent of Mongolians live nomadically or semi-nomadically, and the region’s history of nomadism has left an indelible mark on the country’s culture. Easily portable traditional huts known as gers (more commonly referred to by their Russian name, yurts) are still...
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Residents of Notting Hill say they are proud of the community, who have come out in force to help those who have lost everything in the Grenfell Tower fire. Locals worked tirelessly to provide food, water and clothing. However, with the search for friends and relatives...
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RE-LEARNING HOPE is the story of Unitierra, an autonomous university in Oaxaca, Mexico that is immersed in, and has emerged from, the social and indigenous movements of the region. The film tells the story of this emergence of Unitierra and its powerful critique of...
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Doughnut Economics, the new book by Kate Raworth, is out now.
These animations tell the story of the book's seven ways to think in 60-second bites. Check out the full set as they come online at
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Political failure is a failure of the imagination, argues Guardian columnist George Monbiot. But, he says, Jeremy Corbyn has turned that failure into hope. Labour strategy used to be about mimicking its rivals. Now, it is about offering a radically different world.
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These scenes are excerpted from California Newsreel’s acclaimed three-part documentary series, Race-The Power of an Illusion.
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Shock. It’s a word that has come up a lot since November— for obvious reasons.
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about shock. Ten years ago, I published “The Shock Doctrine,” an investigation that spanned four decades from Pinochet’s U.S.-backed coup in 1970s Chile to...
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In their mission to stop fishing of the endangered totoaba fish, the Sea Shepherd crew finds other animals caught up in fishing nets.
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After a brutal mugging left him with traumatic brain injury, John Pierre decided to ‘suit up’ in a neon cape and lightning bolt socks, emerging as the New York running community’s very own superhero.
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John Oliver's plan for Theresa May: send Lord Buckethead to negotiate Brexit.
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We spent an afternoon with Warren capturing how he sees the world.
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It has been 50 years since the 1967 Six-Day War, which resulted in Israel's occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza and the Syrian Golan Heights.
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Automation in the Information Age is different.
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In Jackson, Mississippi, a coalition of Latino, black, and white activists known as MIRA confronts local lawmakers, who introduced 12 anti-immgrant bills into the state legislature in 2017. Among those protesting in the state's capital: 13-year-old Yizel, whose parents are...
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So far 5 million people have watched as of June 2017. The ad promotes a beautiful message: "Worship your God with love, not terror. Be tender in your faith, tender not harsh. Confront your enemy with peace, not war. Persuade others with leniency, not force."
We couldn't...
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Very few people know the history of school. Nor do they know the real reason schools were established in the first place. Here's a short history of schools in the U.S. from the documentary Class Dismissed.
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Westminster rebel Caroline Lucas, is the first and only Green MP for England & Wales. In an age of disillusionment and mistrust for the ruling elite, she looks from the inside at what's wrong with England's archaic parliamentary system.
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Classic Cassetteboy mashup.
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In May 2017, a group of Pacific Islanders travelled half way across the world to visit the Canadian tar sands.
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Stewart explains Conservative economic theory in 2 minutes.
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Supergroup Prophets of Rage, made up of members of Rage Against The Machine, Public Enemy and Cypress Hill, have just released the first track from their debut album, along with this music video directed by Michael Moore.
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In the run up to the 2017 snap election, VICE asks why so many enormous issues have not been up for discussion. This has been a campaign best defined by Brexit and the Prime Minister's refusal to engage with the opposition, but there is so much more which has been ignored. Why?
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The debate over illegal immigration always misses something important: Undocumented immigrants are actually superheroes. Think about it. They literally risk their lives to make a better future for themselves and their families, and they do all the things we citizens would...
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The worst thing that the British government is doing today is supporting the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen’s civil war. It should be a national scandal, but at the moment, it isn’t even an election issue. David Wearing teaches Middle East politics and international...
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We spent an hour with Tony, capturing his wisdom. Thank you Tony. You really are an inspiration. We strive to take on your mantra that "less really is more".
Green Renaissance is a tiny collective of 4 passionate filmmakers (Warren, Jacky, Michael and Justine). We live Off...
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How elites on both sides of the political spectrum have undermined our social, political and environmental commons.
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Join best-selling author Michael Pollan (Food Rules, The Botany of Desire) on a fascinating journey to answer the question: What should I eat to be healthy? Cutting through confusion and busting myths and misconceptions, In Defense of Food shows how common sense and...
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An epic, ominous and perhaps life saving radio interview occurs with director, Peter Charles Downey on a small-town country radio station about his new documentary movie, Surviving Earth. Where the trees whisper of humanity’s mass suicide in a valley of depleting resources...
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President Trump announced the U.S.’s intent to withdraw from the landmark Paris climate agreement – what many said was the world’s best chance to collectively limit the impact on the planet.
The first effects of climate change are already being felt, and projections show...
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The uncompromising voice behind the first gay themed country music album - 40 years after its release.
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Communication is more than a string of words that gets across static information. The language we use to converse does more than give facts—it can actually offer understanding. Take it from Alan Alda, a career actor whose craft thrives on effective communication through...
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Donald Trump wants to cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 15%. This would blow a massive hole in the federal budget while benefitting Trump's super-rich friends and business associates.
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If you relate with a sense of having your true self shunned by the society we live in, this one’s for you! And if you have kids on top of that, it will really hit home.
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We have made this video to show exactly how the Conservative government has impacted women and girls since 2010. The Conservative government have shown a violent hatred towards women and non-binary people with their cuts hitting women of colour and disabled women the hardest.
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"Big whirls have little whirls that feed on their velocity, and little whirls have lesser whirls, and so on to viscosity." - Meteorologist Lewis Fry Richardson ("Weather Prediction by Numerical Process." Cambrige University Press, 1922)
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