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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Rise and Fall of Vibes-Based Literacy</strong> - Is a controversial curriculum, entrenched in New York City’s public schools for two decades, finally coming undone? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/the-rise-and-fall-of-vibes-based-literacy">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Mikhail Gorbachev, the Fundamentally Soviet Man</strong> - The last leader of the U.S.S.R. attempted to modernize and reform his country, even as he failed to imagine it as anything but an empire. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/mikhail-gorbachev-the-fundamentally-soviet-man">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Biden’s Student-Debt Plan Could Chip Away at the Racial Wealth Gap</strong> - Loan forgiveness and other measures don’t solve the problem of rising tuition costs, but they could help some Black families start to catch up. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/bidens-student-debt-plan-could-chip-away-at-the-racial-wealth-gap">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Healthy Jobs Report Leaves Republicans Scrambling and Biden Smiling</strong> - After creating 1.1 million jobs since May, the economy has now recovered all the jobs lost to the pandemic. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/a-healthy-jobs-report-leaves-republicans-scrambling-and-biden-smiling">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Dave Grohl and Aimee Mann—Live</strong> - The Foo Fighters front man tells stories from a life of rock and roll. And Mann, a singer-songwriter, discusses her latest album, “Queens of the Summer Hotel.” - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/dave-grohl-and-aimee-mann-live">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-vox">From Vox</h1>
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<li><strong>The race to find 2,100 missing species before they go extinct</strong> -
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The widemouth blindcat, a type of catfish, has been missing since the 1980s. If it’s not extinct, it can be found more than 1,000 feet below Earth in the Edwards Aquifer in south-central Texas. | Matthew Busch for Vox
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Many animals aren’t endangered or extinct — they’re missing. Species detectives are trying to track them down.
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As a species<strong> </strong>becomes rarer in the environment, it progresses through a series of conservation<strong> </strong>categories — from “vulnerable” to “endangered” to “critically endangered” to “extinct.” You can look up most animals in <a href="https://www.iucnredlist.org/">a database</a> and see which category they fall into. The <a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22798384/vaquita-extinction-fishing-conservation-mexico">vaquita porpoise</a>, for example, is classified as <a href="https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/17028/214541137">critically endangered</a>, meaning that it’s at risk of extinction. These categories help officials decide which species need protection, and where.
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But there’s another hugely important category for species that’s often overlooked. It’s simply called “lost.” Scientists use the term to describe plants, animals, and fungi that they haven’t seen for at least 10 years, or by <a href="https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acv.12788">some definitions</a>, 50 years. In many cases, these animals are threatened with extinction — or even already extinct — but no one really knows because they’re missing.
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Scientists are racing to find these lost species, motivated by the idea that they can’t protect what they don’t know exists. And in this week’s episode of <a href="https://www.vox.com/unexplainable"><em>Unexplainable</em></a>, Vox’s podcast that explores big unanswered questions, producer <a href="https://www.vox.com/authors/mandy-nguyen">Mandy Nguyen</a> and I join an expedition that’s hunting for one of them. We search for an eyeless salamander that lives in an aquifer, deep below San Antonio, Texas, which is arguably<strong> </strong>one of the least accessible ecosystems on Earth.
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The species hasn’t been seen for more than 70 years.
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But the salamander we were after is just one of more than 2,100 lost species, according to the nonprofit group Re:wild, which keeps <a href="https://www.rewild.org/lost-species">a running list</a>. Finding them could be the only thing that prevents them from going extinct — from disappearing for good.
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Meet some of these “missing” species
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Lost species are, on the whole, a strange and not-so-charismatic bunch. In some cases, that’s actually why they’re missing — no one has put in the time or effort to find these animals because they don’t attract a lot of attention.
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The <a href="https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/23205853/lost-species-extinction-salamander">missing salamander</a> we went searching for in Texas is a prime example. Last seen in 1951, the Blanco blind salamander not only lacks eyes, it’s also colorless, appearing ghostly white, and in order to conserve energy, it rarely moves. It also lives deep underground in the Edwards Aquifer, an underground structure of caves and porous rock that’s full of water (and home to another lost species, the widemouth blindcat, pictured at the top of this story).
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/7658LoH32yt_5I-II_TiSBoJVy0=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23988333/20220701mebVOXwater_52.jpg"/> <cite>Matthew Busch for Vox</cite>
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The only known specimen of the Blanco blind salamander, a lost species that’s been missing for 71 years.
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Still, researchers are desperate to find it.
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Like other salamanders, the species is an indicator of water quality. It’s sensitive to pollution, so where you find the salamander, you can assume the water is relatively clean. This is important because it lives in an aquifer that supplies drinking water to <a href="https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/texas/stories-in-texas/edwards-aquifer-protection/">nearly 2 million people</a> in south-central Texas. Finding the amphibian, or proving it is extinct, would reveal a lot about that critical water source, as I wrote in the feature story below.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/jTtVP9vWwAtSuMol0tuxwIFUe00=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23988400/Buller_Kokako.jpeg"/> <cite>J. G. Keulemans, in W.L. Buller’s <em>A History of the Birds of New Zealand</em></cite>
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An illustration of a South Island Kōkako (above) and North Island Kōkako. The South Island Kōkako has been missing for 15 years, and there’s a reward for finding one.
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Some lost species have been missing for even longer than the salamander. A trapdoor spider native to Europe, for example, hasn’t been seen, definitively, since the early 1900s. An adorable mammal called the Wondiwoi Tree Kangaroo, meanwhile, has been missing since 1928, when it was collected from a forest in Indonesia by the famous evolutionary biologist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Mayr">Ernst Mayr</a>.
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There are also plants and mushrooms on Re:wild’s <a href="https://www.rewild.org/lost-species/top-25-most-wanted-lost-species">lost species list</a>. Native to the mountains of southern Chile, the big puma fungus hasn’t been seen since 1988, and a type of holly tree endemic to Brazil has been missing for 184 years. (You can find more lost species <a href="https://www.rewild.org/lost-species/top-25-most-wanted-lost-species">here</a>.)
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Like the salamander, many lost species are now the subject of search expeditions, such as Miss Waldron’s Red Colobus Monkey, and some organizations are even <a href="https://www.southislandkokako.org/the-search">offering rewards for finding them</a>.
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Who cares about lost species, anyway?
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The herpetologist Andy Gluesenkamp, who works at the San Antonio Zoo, has spent roughly two decades looking for the Blanco blind salamander, an animal that most people have never heard of, let alone will ever see.
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“It’s my white whale,” he said of the salamander.
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So what makes researchers like him so keen on finding lost animals?
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These expeditions contribute to a much bigger scientific mission of understanding what does and does not exist in Earth’s many ecosystems. Documenting life anywhere creates the foundation from which researchers can ask biology’s biggest questions, such as how different animals evolve and why some environments have more diversity than others.
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Jackson’s climbing salamander, once a lost species, was found in 2017 in Guatemala.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Whw07zql0O36vppcH_QltPAl1-M=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23988544/Scarlet_Harlequin_Frog_Enrique_La_Marcaa.jpg"/> <cite>Enrique La Marca</cite>
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Native to Venezuela, the Scarlet Harlequin Toad, another lost species, has been missing for 32 years.
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Right now, we know close to nothing about the Blanco blind salamander, for example, such as where it lives and what it contributes to the aquifer. The only specimen on Earth is in a warehouse in Austin, Texas — and it’s not in great shape. Finding and studying this species in the wild could help answer all kinds of questions about this unique ecosystem and life in extreme environments.
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Finding lost species can also help save them from extinction. “We can’t conserve something that we don’t know is there,” said Barney Long, senior director of conservation strategies at Re:wild.
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And there are already examples of this, which I highlighted in <a href="https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/23205853/lost-species-extinction-salamander">August:</a>
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In 2017, after a park ranger in Guatemala spotted a <a href="https://www.rewild.org/press/found-remarkable-salamander-rediscovery-heralds-early-success-for-worldwide-quest-to-find-and-protect-lost-species">lost species of salamander</a> on the edge of a reserve, Re:wild and other environmental groups helped expand the park’s boundaries to protect the species (which is critically endangered). Two years later, researchers rediscovered a rare <a href="https://www.rewild.org/press/found-chevrotain-miniature-fanged-deer-rediscovered-tiptoeing-through-vietnams-coastal-forests">rabbit-size deer</a> in Vietnam, and have since developed a program to conserve it, including removing hunting snares in the forest.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Sgs9jaEw1aNeLH78yc44bVau10A=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23988548/Blog_Feature_Image_ncs015__ct015__2018_06_21__12_36_23_1___Silver_backed_chevrotaina.jpg"/> <cite>Re:wild/Southern Institute of Ecology/Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research/NCNP</cite>
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A rabbit-size deer called the silver-backed chevrotain, once lost, was <a class="ql-link" href="https://www.rewild.org/lost-species/silver-backed-chevrotain" target="_blank">found</a> in 2019.
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Lucky for scientists, there are more tools than ever to find missing species. They can use traces of DNA — the <a href="https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/23205853/lost-species-extinction-salamander">main approach to finding the Blanco blind salamander</a> — or motion-sensing cameras. Ordinary citizens can also get involved, for instance by uploading sightings of animals on a hike to an app like <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/">iNaturalist</a>.
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“There are so many more technologies out there that are helping us rediscover animals,” Long told me last fall. “Historically, it would have taken months of trudging around wilderness areas to try and find them.”
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If nothing else, finding lost species is about injecting a bit of hope into the movement to conserve wildlife. Normally, <a href="https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/22700280/extinct-animals-birds-biodiversity-loss">we hear about species that have gone extinct</a>. But not all rare species are extinct; they might just be missing.
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<li><strong>Delia Owens wrote the thriller Where the Crawdads Sing. Was she also involved in a murder?</strong> -
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Cover of <em>Where the Crawdads Sing</em>; Mark and Delia Owens in the North Luangwa National Park in Zambia in 1990. | Penguin Random House; William Campbell/Corbis via Getty Images
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A conservationist, a murder, and a bestselling book.
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If you’ve visited a bookstore in the past few years, chances are you’ve seen <em>Where the Crawdads Sing</em>’s hazy orange hardcover grace a display shelf or two. The bestselling novel about a murder in a North Carolina marsh by Delia Owens, a former conservationist, has been praised as “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/17/books/review/where-the-crawdads-sing-delia-owens.html">painfully beautiful</a>” by critics. Actress, producer, and Southerner Reese Witherspoon chose the book for her book club. Her production company, Hello Sunshine, adapted it into a 2022 film starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, with Taylor Swift on the soundtrack.
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But Owens’s career started long before her novel became a huge success. Delia Owens and her ex-husband, Mark Owens, were prominent conservationists, and in the 1990s they lived in Zambia, making it their life’s work to prevent poaching. But in 1995, their methods went a step too far when a suspected poacher was shot and killed. At the time, an ABC News crew was filming a documentary about the Owenses, but they didn’t film the shooter — only the bullets being fired into the man’s body. The couple left Zambia soon afterward and went back home to the United States. They are still wanted for questioning by the Zambian government.
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Fast-forward a couple of decades later, and Delia Owens is now the author of the bestselling book <em>Where the Crawdads Sing</em>. But as journalist and editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Jeff Goldberg tells <a href="https://www.vox.com/today-explained"><em>Today Explained’</em>s</a> Noel King, the book draws on her past life in conservation — and for the past 14 years, he has <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/04/05/the-hunted">tried to get to the bottom</a> of what happened on that fateful day in 1995.
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“It just doesn’t seem right that it happened,” Goldberg says.
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What is Delia Owens’s story, and what does it have in common with her novel that’s sold over 15 million copies? A partial transcript of <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/it-aint-over-til-the-crawdads-sing/id1346207297?i=1000578072557">their conversation</a>, edited for length and clarity, is below.
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Jeff, <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/04/05/the-hunted">your reporting</a> found that Delia’s husband Mark and his son, Chris, were present the night of the murder. Tell me about how this American couple ended up in Zambia.
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Jeff Goldberg
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They had, early in life, decided that they were going to go save the animals in Africa. They were naturalists. They moved first to Botswana, and were very young conservationists, and they wrote a book out of their experience, called <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cry-Kalahari-Mark-James-Owens/dp/0395647800"><em>The Cry of the Kalahari</em></a><em>, </em>which became quite popular. They went to Zambia. They found this park north of Luangwa — it has great wildlife and these very, very remote parks — and in this particular park north of Luangwa, there was a poaching problem with elephants and rhinos. And they set themselves up there.
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Over time, Mark got more and more militant in his efforts to fight poaching and would fly nighttime missions. He kept talking about Vietnam. He had never served in Vietnam, but he kept, in books and other talks, talking about it as if it were Vietnam. They were throwing cherry bombs and other things out of planes at night, burning the tents of poaching groups. And as things got darker and darker, [Mark and Delia Owens] started claiming to other people in the region that they were killing poachers, that the scouts under Mark Owens’s command were killing poachers. Delia refers to this in a couple of their books, and she expresses ambivalence about it. But she was part of this operation. She co-ran this operation with Mark Owens. And eventually I think what happened, to put it bluntly, is they became so enamored with it all that they thought, “you know what, we need a lot of publicity for this.” That’s when they invited ABC News in.
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Noel King
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And that’s how we get to the night when someone kills an alleged poacher, while an ABC News camera is running. Tell me about that night.
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Jeff Goldberg
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On the night in question, Mark Owens flew an ABC cameraman, a producer, and his son Chris Owens, who was then helping him in this operation, out to an unknown location. We don’t know where it was exactly in the park, but it was on the outskirts of the park, near what they said was an abandoned poacher camp. And at a certain point in the night, an unidentified person came into the camp and was shot.
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This person who is shot — and we can’t really tell — is a Black person, but we don’t know anything about this man’s identity other than that. He’s allegedly a poacher coming into this camp and is on the ground. We can visibly see that he’s moving. So he’s wounded, he’s not dead. Then there are three more shots from off camera.
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The camera doesn’t pivot to show us who the shooter is. We don’t see who is firing, but the bullets are fired into this body.
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And that’s the last we see of this. My investigation, 13, 14 years ago, learned that the shots from off camera were fired by Chris Owens. The person who told me that was the ABC cameraman. Chris Everson is a South African cameraman and very prominent journalist. Chris Owens disappeared from the camp, witnesses told me after that, and was sent out to America. He’s never been back to Zambia. Nobody calls the authorities.
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Noel King
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Can I ask you about the moment you realize this woman whose trail you’ve been on for many years has written a book that is in Reese Witherspoon’s book club. What the hell was that like?
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Jeff Goldberg
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It started with one or two emails from people who remembered my <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/04/05/the-hunted">New Yorker piece from 2010</a> who said, “Hey, I don’t know if you know this, but Delia Owens is on the New York Times Best Seller list.” And so it piqued my curiosity. I went out and got the book and — this is the strange part — the book is kind of Edgar Allan Poe-ish in a certain way. There are all these hints and allusions to earlier dark events in Zambia. I mean, spoiler alert, to the extent that there’s anybody in America who doesn’t know what this book is about, the book is about a strange, awkward, loner, naturalist Southern girl who commits a described-as-righteous murder in what would in the African context be known as the bush, and what in the American context would be known as the wilderness or the swamps or whatever.
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And I’m reading it and I’m going, “Oh, my goodness<em>.”</em> And by the way, it makes references to people that they knew in Zambia. I mean, the name of the jailhouse cat is Sunday Justice, which is the name of their cook and aide in their camp in North Luangwa. A guy I met. And I come across that, I’m like, “Oh my goodness<em>.”</em> Not to make this self-referential, but I thought she was trolling me from a distance kind of way. I was like, “Why are you planting all these clues? Why are you doing this?”
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Noel King
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At the end of the day, Jeff, what would you like to happen here? What do you think justice would look like? Is justice what you want? Or do you just want to keep chasing the Owenses around the world?
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Jeff Goldberg
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No, I don’t. I had done my thing 12 years ago, wrote my piece, put it out in the world. Thank you very much, on to the next thing. You know, I’ll tell you what bothers me. What bothers me is the idea that somebody was murdered in a remote part of Zambia, a remote part of Africa, and no one cares.
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I would like to know who the person was. It was a male. Probably had a family, disappeared into the bush. If the body was dumped in a lagoon, it means it was eaten by crocodiles. It doesn’t seem right, is my point. It just doesn’t seem right that this happened. And I include ABC News in the category of people who have done wrong things here because they were just out looking for some violence, right? And they know what happened.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="1MuOLZ">
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And Chris Everson, the ABC News cameraman, his conscience obviously was bothering him when I called him in South Africa. He told me what happened. He didn’t say “no comment.” He didn’t say, “I have no idea what you’re talking about.” He didn’t lie. He told me the truth. He said, “This is a terrible thing that happened. And I saw it.” And it was almost like he was waiting for years for somebody to call him, and I just think it’s wrong. And I know that some combination of Mark, Chris, and Delia Owens know exactly what happened to this person and they know where the body was taken. And that just doesn’t seem right.
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<li><strong>You’re being tracked through your email. Here’s how to stop it.</strong> -
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<img alt="Cartoon image of a hacker sitting at a laptop across from an unsuspecting victim, also at a laptop." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/L9HUo1t9IZUMJVsnTf9BCY-pgCg=/0x0:6667x5000/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71320137/GettyImages_1302958644.0.jpg"/>
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Denis Novikov/Getty Images/iStockphoto
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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It’s time to turn off those secret email read receipts.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="LlD6VR">
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I subscribe to a lot of newsletters. I read most of them, too. But their authors wouldn’t know it because I’ve disabled the trackers that detect and tell the senders when subscribers open their emails. It’s nothing personal; I just don’t want anyone knowing what I read, when, how many times I read it, the device I read it on, and even where I was when I read it. How about you?
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="VA92J9">
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Oh, you didn’t know it was possible for email senders to know all of that about you just because you clicked open? It <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/stop-tracking-my-emails">very much is</a>, and <a href="https://senglehardt.com/papers/pets18_email_tracking.pdf">it happens a lot</a> — in newsletters and marketing emails especially. But trackers aren’t limited to them. Anyone can sneak a tracker into your email; services that do this are <a href="https://mailtrap.io/blog/free-email-tracking-tools/">plentiful and free</a>. If you’re the kind of person who turns off read receipts on texts and DMs, this is probably not good news to read.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="f4lOya">
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While it’s creepy to think of your email reading habits being tracked, that’s not the only reason why you should consider taking a few extra steps to protect your email. Your email address has become one of your <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22620276/what-to-do-when-you-get-someone-elses-email-security-vulnerabilities-gmail-inbox-invasion">best and most persistent identifiers</a>, and data brokers and marketers will match what you do with it in one place with what you’ve used it for in others. That helps them build an ever-more-comprehensive profile of your online (and offline) life. You might be fine with getting emails from the store you gave your address to, or even that store knowing whether you opened their emails. You might not be so fine with a bunch of other companies you have no relationship with knowing it, too. But that’s exactly what happens.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="WJsCas">
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There’s also the security factor. Emails get leaked in data breaches <a href="https://haveibeenpwned.com/">all the time</a>, and there’s a lot a determined hacker can do with your email address, especially since email addresses often double as logins. If a company doesn’t have your real email address, that’s one less thing you have to worry about getting out there if (or, really, <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23031858/data-breach-data-loss-personal-consequences">when</a>) that company gets hacked.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="lGn2wN">
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The good news is there are ways to better protect your email privacy. A new one just dropped: DuckDuckGo, the <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22981115/duckduckgo-free-speech-privacy-oops">privacy-first</a> search engine provider, just opened up its <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/email/">Email Protection</a> service after a year of beta testing. Apple, Firefox, and Proton have similar offerings, each with its own pros and cons.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="VARiHk">
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Here are a few services and ways to make your email more private and why you should consider using them. These aren’t the only companies offering these services, but they each have a reputation for protecting their users’ privacy. In some cases, that’s their mission statement.
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</p>
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<h3 id="V0Zs75">
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Disguise your email address
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</h3>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="kAccOR">
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One of the best ways to protect your email privacy is also one of the most obvious: Don’t give your email address out in the first place. But email addresses are valuable, so companies will do whatever they can to get them. Maybe they’ll require you to give them your email address if you want to order anything, or they’ll dangle a nice juicy discount in front of you in exchange for it.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="wH7saa">
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One solution is to use a service that gives you an alias email address, which redirects messages to the inbox of your choice. That way, you can get all the emails (and coupons) in your real inbox without the senders knowing what your real address is.
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||
</p>
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Perhaps the best-known example of this is Apple’s “<a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210425">Hide My Email</a>” feature. I use this, so I can tell you that it works as promised. I get unlimited aliases and use a different one everywhere. But, as seems to be the case with everything Apple, it works much better within the Apple ecosystem than it does outside of it. If you’re logged into your iCloud account, using an Apple device, going through Apple’s Safari browser, or using <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210318">sign in with Apple</a>, then Hide My Email will pop up as an option at email prompts. Creating and entering your fake email address is about as easy as entering your real one.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="GEUfUl">
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||
But if you’re using a non-Apple product or service, the process becomes significantly more time-consuming and annoying. Another drawback is that it costs money. You have to have an iCloud+ account, which starts at 99 cents a month and includes other things, like expanded cloud storage. So while Hide My Email is a good feature for some, it’s probably not the best option for all.
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</p>
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<div class="c-float-right">
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||
<figure class="e-image">
|
||
<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/2Tv6txoMN4GSg5SzpKe_URpi7ro=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23989254/IMG_9723.jpg"/>
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DuckDuckGo’s Email Protection makes it easy to create fake email addresses.
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</figcaption>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="SCt84F">
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DuckDuckGo’s Email Protection, on the other hand, is free. And it’s available on most web browsers if you install DuckDuckGo’s extension, which you can get through DuckDuckGo’s site or your browser’s extension store (the notable exception being Safari, though DuckDuckGo says that’s in the works). After that, it’ll pop up automatically as an option whenever there’s an email prompt, similar to Hide My Mail. You get as many aliases as you want, set-up is simple, and it’s got a few other features that I’ll get into later.
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||
</p>
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||
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="WnktzW">
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There’s also <a href="https://relay.firefox.com">Firefox Relay</a>, which has a free and a paid option. The free one only gives you 5 aliases, while the paid tier has unlimited addresses. It’s 99 cents a month, though Firefox says that price point will only be available for a limited time. Also, the browser extension you’ll need to easily use Relay in email prompts isn’t available on all browsers. Finally, you have to have or create a Firefox account to use it. That’s easy enough to do, but it’s also an extra step you may not want to take when signing up for a service that’s supposed to help you avoid giving away your data while setting up accounts.
|
||
</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="o993Ra">
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Finally, Proton — which is best known for its encrypted email service — <a href="https://proton.me/support/creating-aliases">now offers</a> the ability to create alias email addresses with paid Proton Mail plans, which start at $3.99 a month. The cheapest option only gives you 10 aliases, though, so if you’re planning on using a different email for everything, that won’t be enough.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="EXkS3U">
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If you don’t want to bother with going through an alias service, you can always just create your own alternate account on whatever email provider you use and put that down for all the things you don’t want to give out your real email address for. It’ll reduce the amount of junk email you get in your real inbox, but if you use that one email address enough times in enough places, it’ll become just as much of an identifier of you as your real email address is.
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</p>
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<h3 id="AWrxer">
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Block those trackers
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||
</h3>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="qegh7Z">
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Whether you’re giving out your real email address or going through an alias, you may not want email senders to know if and when you read their messages. They can <a href="https://www.hubspot.com/sales/email-tracking-guide">learn a lot</a> about you just from that. This tracking happens through tiny little images — a pixel, basically — embedded in the email. When you open the email, it makes a call to the server the image is hosted on, which tells the tracking service that you opened the email, how many times you opened it, when you opened it, some info about the device you used to open it, and possibly even your IP address (many email providers have cut this off; Gmail, for instance, routes image requests through its servers, which masks your IP address).
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||
</p>
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||
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="bCYSCi">
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Some of the same companies that offer email aliases also have tracker blocking services. Apple rolled out its tracker blocking feature, Mail Privacy Protection, last year with iOS15. The good news is Mail Privacy Protection is free and easy to enable — either you got a prompt the first time you opened Mail asking if you wanted to turn it on, or it’s a matter of finding it in your settings. The bad news is it only works in Apple’s Mail app.
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="xYk3it">
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||
Proton’s mail service <a href="https://proton.me/blog/enhanced-tracking-protection">enables tracker protection</a> by default and is available with both its free and paid tiers. It’ll tell you which trackers it blocked and who they’re from, giving you a chance to sort of spy on the companies spying on you. But tracker protection is only available on Proton’s website. Proton says it’s coming to the mobile app soon.
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="RMLvvP">
|
||
DuckDuckGo’s Email Protection service is not tied to any one company or operating system. It detects and filters out trackers before they make their way to your (real) inbox. It also removes trackers from links with the emails, and it’ll let you know if an email contained trackers and who they’re from. Just to give you a sense of how pervasive these trackers are: DuckDuckGo says about 85 percent of the emails that passed through its new service during Email Protection’s beta phase contained trackers.
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||
</p>
|
||
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="pIezN8">
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||
Firefox Relay’s free and premium tiers also remove trackers. Note that both DuckDuckGo and Firefox’s options only remove trackers from the emails that pass through them; that is, the emails coming through the alias emails you created with their services. They’re not removing trackers from emails that go directly to your real email address.
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||
</p>
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||
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="2YP670">
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Finally, you can always go the DIY route by going into your email settings and making sure that you’ve chosen not to automatically download images. In Gmail, for instance, you can do this by going to Settings <strong>> </strong>General <strong>> </strong>Images <strong>> </strong>Ask before displaying external images. The downside of this method is that your emails might look like a sea of broken image icons, since you’re not just blocking trackers, you’re blocking all images hosted externally, even if they’re perfectly harmless.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="kNhMUs">
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A final note: While these services and techniques will surely protect your privacy to some extent, nothing is foolproof. If there’s any identifying information attached to your alias email address — maybe you set up an account using it and then order something to be delivered to your real physical address using your real name — it won’t be hard for a data broker to match it back to you. While tracker blockers are effective, there’s always a chance that marketers and the tracking services they use will come up with another way to track you through your emails. And then we’ll start the whole process of figuring out how to block those trackers all over again.
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</p></li>
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</ul>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Theon excels</strong> -</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Andhra Pradesh: Child rights panel to act tough against schools violating RTE Act</strong> - Recognised private and unaided schools are mandated to allot 25% seats to EWS students under the Act, says APSCPCR Chairman</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Twitter war erupts between BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, Deoghar DC over entry into airport ATC</strong> - An FIR was registered against nine people, including BJP MPs Nishikant Dubey and Manoj Tiwari, for allegedly forcing Air Traffic Control officials to provide clearance for their chartered flight.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Merchandise exports remain flat at $33 billion in August</strong> - On conservating estimate, exports will cross $750 billion amid global headwinds, said Commerce Secretary</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine war: Russia to keep key gas pipeline to EU closed</strong> - Russia says it has found a leak on Nord Stream 1, but the EU accuses Moscow of using gas as a weapon.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine war: G7 agrees to impose price cap on Russian oil</strong> - Members of the Group of Seven say the move will hurt Russia’s ability to finance its war on Ukraine.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Gibraltar collision: Race to remove fuel from stricken ship</strong> - Salvage teams rush to remove hundreds of tonnes of fuel from the ship amid fears of ecological damage.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>UN FAO’s global food prices fall for fifth month in a row</strong> - The UN FAO’s food prices index has fallen to a lower level than before Russia invaded Ukraine.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Earthquake rocks Liechtenstein Parliament… during earthquake debate</strong> - The moment a tremor hits the Liechtenstein Parliament building causing the session to be paused.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Liveblog: All the news from Apple’s “Far Out” event</strong> - Tune in at 1 pm EST on September 7, 2022, to see what’s next from Apple. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1877934">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How a giant eagle came to dominate ancient New Zealand</strong> - Evidence suggests eagle was part of a wave of feathered invaders. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1877987">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>After careful consideration, NASA ready to launch SLS rocket as is</strong> - “There’s no guarantee we’re going to get off on Saturday.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1877890">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>YouTube algorithm pushed election fraud claims to Trump supporters, report says</strong> - Researchers analyzed real recommendations to hundreds of YouTube users. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1878094">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Here come the bendable TVs and monitors that no one asked for</strong> - Flat-to-curved screens have an identity crisis. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1877958">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>What do you call a Muslim-friendly joke?</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/useless_switch"> /u/useless_switch </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/x4pjin/what_do_you_call_a_muslimfriendly_joke/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/x4pjin/what_do_you_call_a_muslimfriendly_joke/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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I went to the pet store, and the owner said “that’ll be $200 please”, I said “$200? It’ll be cheaper getting one off the web”.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/AutumnalAristocrat"> /u/AutumnalAristocrat </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/x46ljy/my_daughter_wants_a_pet_spider_for_her_birthday/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/x46ljy/my_daughter_wants_a_pet_spider_for_her_birthday/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>I like my women how I like my COVID</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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19, breathtaking, and easy to spread
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/leathco"> /u/leathco </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/x49arh/i_like_my_women_how_i_like_my_covid/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/x49arh/i_like_my_women_how_i_like_my_covid/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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The guy who can carry half a dozen donuts and two cups of coffee.
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Who’s the mist popular girl? The one that can eat the last donut…
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Kaptain_Karnage"> /u/Kaptain_Karnage </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/x4qbru/who_is_the_most_popular_guy_at_a_nudist_colony/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/x4qbru/who_is_the_most_popular_guy_at_a_nudist_colony/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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This guy is dining alone in a fancy restaurant and there’s a beautiful redhead sitting at the next table. He’s been sneakily checking her out ever since he arrived, but doesn’t have the courage to start talking to her.
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Suddenly she sneezes, and her glass eye comes flying out of its socket toward the man. His reflexes kick in and he reaches out, plucks it out of the air, and hands it back to her.
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The redhead is mortified. “Oh my, I am so sorry,” she says as she pops her eye back into place. “Let me buy your dinner to make it up to you.”
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So he joins her table and they enjoy a wonderful meal together. Afterwards they go to the theatre followed by drinks at a bar. They talk, they laugh, she shares her deepest dreams and he shares his. She listens.
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After paying for everything, she asks him if he would like to come to her place for a nightcap. He says yes and they return to her place.
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He ends up staying the night. The next morning, she cooks a gourmet meal with all the trimmings. The guy is amazed at how everything has been so perfect and how incredible this woman is. He can’t believe his luck. “You know,” he said, “you are the perfect woman, are you this nice to every guy you meet?”
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“No,” she replies, “You just happened to catch my eye.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mercaptopurine"> /u/mercaptopurine </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/x4gnqk/beautiful_redhead/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/x4gnqk/beautiful_redhead/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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