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They told us that painting the Palestinian flag was forbidden, but also the colours were forbidden. So Issam said, ‘What if I were to make a flower of red, green, black and white?’, to which the officer replied angrily, ‘It will be confiscated. Even if you paint a watermelon, it will be confiscated.’

Sliman Mansour recalling the shutdown of his, Nabil Anani's, and Issam Badr's art exhibition in Ramallah in 1980

It looks nothing like either a centric or pennate diatom

New palace construction drains royal treasuries, a new study finds

Most species grow to half a millimetre. So they're just barely visible to the naked eye; like a small spec of dust.

Ball had started rolling on Reform and Opening Up by about that time

RISC OS uses periods and doesn't have file extensions

There's nowhere enough evidence to say he definitely existed but the scholarly consensus is that he most likely did.

Bringing whole new meaning to the term "intergenerational trauma"

When you predict a new phenomenon from a current model, either you've opened the door to the discovery of this new phenomenon or you've demonstrated a shortcoming in the model. Both are useful to science.

I understand the Dodo and Thylacine—colonialism has been a disaster for ecosystems around the world and restoration is very much desirable—but why the woolly mammoth? What possible benefit could come from destroying the ecosystems we've had for millennia to replace them with a facsimile of the ice age?

Yes, far more people are living long enough to develop dementia

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