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Nov
Note: Way off
Way off. In 2015’s Paris Agreement, nearly all the world’s countries pledged to try to limit global warming
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20
Nov
Mind the gap
Why are global greenhouse-gas emissions still rising? Rachel Cleetus on how the use of fossil fuels keeps growing—and outpacing renewable energy.
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19
Nov
Note: ‘The Fatberg Which Weighed as Much as Three Elephants’
111 MHz: ‘The Fatberg Which Weighed as Much as Three Elephants.’ Rubbish Music is, as you might expect, a U.
18
Nov
Note: ‘The Tribe’
5 W Main: The Tribe. Days after the U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump commented that his former secretary of
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14
Nov
Note: ‘It’s coming from inside the house’
‘It’s coming from inside the house.’ Last summer, the Marvel Cinematic Universe became the first ever franchise to earn
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14
Nov
In theaters now
Why are studios releasing so few original new films? Andrew deWaard on how movie franchises have conquered Hollywood.
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14
Nov
Note: ‘There Are Easier Ways to Disappear (but I’m Only Good at This One)’
111 MHz: ‘There Are Easier Ways to Disappear (but I’m Only Good at This One).’ The Beirut-based composer Yara
13
Nov
Note: Get yourself together
Get yourself together. Local governments in China have built up huge debts over the past few years, and many of
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12
Nov
Note: The killer
The killer. Believe it or not, Canada’s government says India’s home minister organized the murder of a Sikh
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12
Nov
Note: ‘Sometime Too Hot’
111 MHz: ‘Sometime Too Hot.’ The composer Tullis Rennie—also a professor of music in the U.K.—here sculpts