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Tue, 14/02/2023 - 22:07

By Christian Downie, Australian National University and Robert Brulle, Brown University / The Conversation You’ve probably seen ads promoting gas and oil companies as the solutions to climate change. They’re meant to be inspiring and hopeful, with scenes of a green, clean future. But shiny ads are not all these companies do to protect their commercial interests in the […]

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Tue, 14/02/2023 - 21:59

By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Look, it is one thing for reporters and line editors to abandon the fundamental principle of objectivity as they hurl their hatchets at those who provoke their prejudices—Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, this, that or the other governor or senator, this, that, or the other dissident. It is greatly, […]

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Tue, 14/02/2023 - 21:21
Econometricians would like to project the image of agricultural experimenters who divide a farm into a set of smaller plots of land and who select randomly the level of fertilizer to be used on each plot. If some plots are assigned a certain amount of fertilizer while others are assigned none, then the difference between […]
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Tue, 14/02/2023 - 20:02

Artesã narra momentos de terror que viveu com o filho pequeno em Piracaia após vizinhos descobrirem que ela vendia bonecos de orixás e votava em Lula.

The post ‘Envenenaram meus gatos e me mandaram ameaças de estupro com suásticas’, diz vítima de racismo em SP appeared first on The Intercept.