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In public debate around Ebola and COVID-19, we still feel the legacy of the KGB's disinformation about HIV/AIDS.
No one knows what language they speak, how they live, or what they believe. We don't even know what they call themselves.
On March 28, 2020, in the opening stages of the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) : "FACT: #COVID19 is NOT airborne." It turned out they were very wrong. The world's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has seen a number of screw-ups: some countries waited too long to lock down, some flip-flopped on their stance on face masks.
When London won its bid for the 2012 Olympics, communities in areas like Stratford in the east of the city were promised investment, regeneration and opportunity, even if they didn't want it. Five years after the games and a plummeting number of people take part in sport, while the area is brimming with unaffordable housing, and a tax-payer subsidised football ground sits on their doorstep.
At a packed venue in North London, a ragtag crowd of curious punters and weekend warriors have gathered around a boxing ring. As the smell of beer and sweat starts to build, a strange chant rumbles through the venue: "CHESS! CHESS! CHESS!" They are here to witness chessboxing, the ultimate game of brain-versus-brawn where players...
On December 17, 2007, just two months before declaring its independence, Kosovo had an international musician perform in its capital for the very first time: 50 Cent. Still haunted by the ghosts of their troubled past, the evening became a deeply poignant moment in the story of their soon-to-be nation.
Throughout the '70s and '80s, with the sounds of the rebellion still ringing in America's ears, Aron Kay railed against the establishment using a variety of creamy desserts. Over his 20 year career of throwing baked pies at unlikable public figures, Kay became a lovable antihero of the radical left.
The bucardo was the first animal to be resurrected from the depths of extinction. It was also the first animal to go extinct twice. Also known as the Pyrenean ibex, the bucardo was once a common sight in the idyllic Pyrenees mountains that border France and Spain, as well as the Basque Country, Navarre, north Aragon, and north Catalonia.
Cards Against Humanity, the party game where players fill in the blanks in sentences with phrases like "my dad's fucking dumb face" and "a big black dick," is threatening to destroy an original Picasso print. Earlier this month, the game's makers launched a promotion called "Eight Sensible Gifts for Hanukkah."