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uk Teachers on four continents stage mass strikes Cory Doctorow

train travel The best train travel guide is run by one man, all for free Natalie Dressed

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architecture This house looks like a cross between an Earthship and the structures on Tatooine, and can be yours for $295k Jennifer Sandlin

global warming Firefighting plane crashes in Greece, starting a new fire and killing two pilots Carla Sinclair

star wars Stormtrooper helmet and blaster used in 1977's Star Wars up for auction Mark Frauenfelder

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law Man who planned ricin bomb sent to prison in Germany, cops say bioterror plot thwarted Xeni Jardin

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movies "Then and Now" photos of Death Valley spots used for Tatooine in Star Wars David Pescovitz

picks German couple who tested ricin on hamster charged with 'plotting Islamist attack' Xeni Jardin

infosec Using information security to explain why disinformation makes autocracies stronger and democracies weaker Cory Doctorow

politics 2018 world freedom map shows "democracy in crisis" Rob Beschizza

late stage capitalism Treasure Islands: EU publishes a blacklist of 17 tax-havens and a long-list of runner-up tax avoidance jurisdictions Cory Doctorow

Business Cyber-arms dealers offer to sell surveillance weapons to undercover Al Jazeera reporters posing as reps of South Sudan and Iran Cory Doctorow

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uk In Africa, British spies target allied leaders, executives, and telcoms engineers Cory Doctorow

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