This is the introduction to Our World in Data – the web publication that shows how global living conditions are changing. This text was previously titled 'A history of global living conditions in 5 charts'. The Japanese translation of this…
In July of 1838, Charles Darwin was twenty-nine years old and single. Two years earlier, he had returned from his voyage aboard H.M.S. Beagle with the observations that would eventually form the basis of “On the Origin of Species.” In…
The New York Times
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Motoko Rich
– Jan 20, 12:00 PM
TOKYO — Carlos Ghosn, the embattled global auto executive who has spent the last two months jailed in Japan, is offering to post a higher bail amount and personally pay for an apartment in Tokyo along with private security guards as he…
The New Yorker
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Isaac Chotiner
– Jan 20, 10:55 AM
In her new book, “ Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts,” Jill Abramson, the former executive editor of the Times, examines how four large American news organizations are surviving the age of the Internet…
The New York Times
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Nicholas St. Fleur
– Jan 20, 1:00 AM
Skygazers across the Western Hemisphere will be treated to celestial eye candy on Sunday night into early Monday morning as the full moon turns coppery red during a total lunar eclipse. It will be the only total lunar eclipse of the year, and that…
