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10 Mar 2026

AI chatbots can shift political opinions

A new study finds that ordinary AI chatbot summaries can change people’s social and political opinions. The researchers say subtle framing comes from latent biases in model training and from how responses are prompted.

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22 Feb 2026

Netflix series revives search for Oesterheld

A Netflix adaptation of the 1957 comic El Eternauta has renewed attention to Héctor Germán Oesterheld and his missing family. The show led to more searches for disappeared people and more contacts with Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo.

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20 Jan 2026

Chef Filip Ondrušek: food, memory and tradition

Filip Ondrušek is an Austrian‑Slavic chef and ecologist based in São Paulo. He connects cooking with national history, works with biodynamic seasonal ingredients and has cooked in many top restaurants worldwide.

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26 Dec 2025

Study: Industrial Revolution pollution affected people unevenly in England

A study in Science Advances used bones and historical records to track pollution exposure during the Industrial Revolution. Researchers analysed remains from 94 people in industrial South Shields and rural Barton-upon-Humber and found uneven, gendered exposure.

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17 Dec 2025

Why Christmas carols stay popular

Christmas music is heard everywhere each holiday season. A music professor, Ariana Wyatt, says the songs have a long history and a steady style, which helps them stay part of public life and business.

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1 Dec 2025

Large stone basin found at Gabii near Rome

Archaeologists at Gabii, east of Rome, uncovered a large stone-lined basin dated to about 250 BCE. The feature may be a monumental pool and is part of wider discoveries; fieldwork will continue next summer.

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28 Nov 2025

Huge Early Maya Monument at Aguada Fénix

Archaeologists found a huge Maya monument at Aguada Fénix in Tabasco. Excavations show it was a ritual cosmogram with jade offerings, pigments, and causeways, and it dates to about 1,000 BCE.

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24 Nov 2025

Band of Holes at Monte Sierpe: an Indigenous accounting system?

New evidence suggests the Band of Holes at Monte Sierpe in southern Peru was part of a pre‑European Indigenous system for accounting and exchange. Researchers used sediment analysis and drone images to reach this conclusion.

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21 Nov 2025

Citizen archivists record South Asian oral traditions

Citizen archivists in South Asia record folk songs, oral histories, riddles and traditional medicinal knowledge. They upload videos and transcriptions to Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource and Wikipedia to preserve fading cultural knowledge.

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22 Oct 2025

Kurt and Sheep’s Milk: A Vanishing Kazakh Tradition

A report on how butter and kurt, a dried cheese from sheep’s milk, were once common across Kazakhstan and how a small number of villagers in southern Kazakhstan still make them today.

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14 Oct 2025

Student Protests in Nepal Turn Deadly

In early September 2025 student protests in Nepal began over a social media ban and widened into anger at political failure. Police fired in Kathmandu, killing at least 19 people. An interim prime minister promised elections in March 2026.

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17 Sept 2025

Bandung 1955 and Indonesia’s Links with Africa

The 1955 Bandung Conference helped build an Asia–Africa identity and Dasasila (Ten Values). Today people meet, study and share music, food and sport between Indonesia and African countries.

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30 Aug 2025

Pani puri: India's famous street snack

Pani puri is a small deep‑fried shell filled with spiced ingredients and a flavoured water. It has ancient roots in Magadha, many regional names and versions, and it is now eaten in countries around the world.

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