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How the Saudi crown prince used oil and political cunning to overturn his pariah status

Sun, 12/31/2023 - 03:44

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MBS — Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in 2018.
FETHI BELAID

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An astronomer explains why the universe looks black even though it contains 200 billion trillion stars

Sat, 12/30/2023 - 12:47

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image of space with cluster of galaxies and stars everywhere — James Webb Space Telescope's view of Pandora's Cluster.
NASA, ESA, CSA, Ivo Labbe (Swinburne), Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh)

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The daughter of multi-millionaire oil tycoon Charles Koch thought she had to be liked to deserve to exist, until MDMA therapy

Sat, 12/30/2023 - 08:56

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Graphical composite showing a woman with an eye mask on, surrounded by scientists, with a psychedelic pattern expanding behind her. — Psychedelic clinical trials focus on a myriad of hallucinogenic drugs. Elizabeth Koch is a proponent for MDMA in therapy.
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New Year's resolutions are kind of outdated

Sat, 12/30/2023 - 08:21

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Two women practising yoga. — Two people doing yoga
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2024 is going to be a dumpster fire of a year for US politics

Sat, 12/30/2023 - 08:06

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US Capitol building — Caution tape blows in the wind on the east front plaza of the U.S. Capitol Building on September 27, 2023, in Washington, DC.
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2023 was a chaotic mess.
Next year's calendar is already jam-packed with primaries and trial dates.
Buckle up!

2023 has been one for the books.

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23 lasting images from a chaotic year in politics

Sat, 12/30/2023 - 08:06

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Off years in US politics are supposed to be relatively quiet. Heading into 2023, we expected a divided Congress to pass very little sweeping legislation. We knew that Republicans would be jockeying for the GOP presidential nomination. And you can always expect a surprise or two.

Oh, how quaint that seems now.