Did Covid really push some Italians out of the country’s cities?

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During the summer of 2020, as highlighted by geographers Aurélie Delage and Max Rousseau, media across many European countries widely reported the idea that the Covid-19 pandemic had triggered a massive urban...

These 16 nuns were guillotined in the French Revolution. Now the Pope has declared them saints

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The Martyrs of Compiègne, a group of 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns executed during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution, were canonised by Pope Francis on December 18. Their extraordinary faith and courage in...

In Our Evenings, Alan Hollinghurst takes an elegiac look at class, sexuality and race in post-Brexit Britain

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Late in Alan Hollinghursts new novel Our Evenings, the narrator David Win, gracefully ageing doyen of the British stage, experiences one of those moments when the world is revealed to be other than he thought it was....

Beyond Evolution: Alfred Russel Wallace’s critique of the 19th century world

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Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist renowned for co-developing the theory of evolution alongside Charles Darwin and for mapping out the biodiversity of the Indonesian Archipelago. However, his legacy extends...

Much of Australia enjoys the same Mediterranean climate as LA. When it comes to bushfires, that doesn’t bode well

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The world has watched in horror as fires continue to raze parts of Los Angeles, California. For those of us living in Australia, one of the worlds most fire-prone continents, the LA experience feels all too familiar. A...

What the dead, the uncanny and the monstrous tell us about human nature

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Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. Title of the course Ghosts, Zombies and Monsters: What We Fear and Loathe in Religions What prompted...

Why does a rocket have to go 25,000 mph to escape Earth?

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Theres a reason why a rocket has to go so fast to escape Earth. Its about gravity something all of us experience every moment of every day. Gravity is the force that pulls you toward the ground. And thats a good thing....