Karen Alden
- Ideas
The Facebook Whistleblower Won’t Change Anything
Truth be told, predicting the future isn’t my strong suit (and I have a trophy to prove it)—but here’s one…
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A personal journey through the menopause
I sat on the sofa crying, sobbing… my doctor had just called to say that my test results confirmed that…
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Mutilated Remains of a Man Trying to Escape Vesuvius Eruption Found
Mount Vesuvius occupies a very special place in the fables and tales of not just the Neapolitans of the southwestern…
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Hotly Debated Origins of Pre-Inca Civilization of Tiwanaku Revealed by Genetic Study
Tiwanaku – one of the largest Pre-Columbian settlements and archaeological sites, located in western Bolivia, near Lake Titicaca, has hotly…
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Court Artist Tried to Warn Henry VIII Not to Marry Anne of Cleves
The German aristocrat Anne of Cleves was the fourth of Henry VIII’s six wives , marrying the king on January…
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Oldest Evidence of Tobacco Use Found at Ice Age Camp in Utah
Excavations at an Ice Age hunter-gatherer camp in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert have revealed the oldest known evidence of…
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Earth from Space – New Delhi, India
New Delhi, the capital and second-largest city of India, is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.…
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How Facebook Hides How Terrible It Is With Hate Speech
In public, Facebook seems to claim that it removes more than 90 percent of hate speech on its platform, but…
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First Nation K’ómoks Advanced Fishing Traps Revealed in British Columbia
In the shallow coastal waters along the eastern shore of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, low tide brings a remarkable…
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The Iron Age Diet: Lots Of Blue Cheese and Beer, Poop Study Shows
Research on poop samples, or palaeofaeces, preserved in the underground salt mines of the UNESCO World Heritage site of Hallstatt…
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