>"Japan last year registered fewer than 800,000 births for the first time since records began over a century ago."

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>"The number of Japanese citizens living in the Tokyo area fell in 2021, which was the first drop since statistics began being collated in 1975."

Absolutely fascinating analysis of how two congressional primaries in NY show the changing state of autism in politics, by _...Read More_

>"Evangelical protestants, around one third of the population, are likely to play a key role in the upcoming Brazilian election."

>"The US expects more announcements of weapons and equipment packages to be sent to Ukraine to help in its fight against Russia at a meeting of nearly 50 countries in _...Read More_

[https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/03/world/asia/taliban-outlaw-opium-poppy-afghanistan.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/03/world/asia/taliban-outlaw-opium-poppy-afghanistan.html) >"The move will have far-reaching consequences for the many farmers who turned to the illicit crop as a brutal drought and economic crisis have _...Read More_

The New York Times: Taliban Outlaw Opium Poppy Cultivation in Afghanistan. >"The move will have far-reaching consequences for the many farmers who _...Read More_

"Martin Pope, a physical chemist whose fundamental work on molecular semiconductors more than 60 years ago led to the development of organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, which are used in digital cameras, mobile phones, solar panels and _...Read More_

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>"If Tory legislation is left unchallenged, it won’t just be the right to protest that ordinary Britons will lose, says author Daniel Trilling"

“That first summer, as Republicans settled into their anti-testing, anti-lockdown, anti-mask, nothing-to-worry-about orthodoxy, Representative Jamie Raskin, a Democrat, said it was “like a policy of mass human sacrifice.” The anthropology _...Read More_

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"Pope Benedict XVI knew about priests who abused children but failed to act when he was archbishop of Munich from 1977 to 1981, an inquest found Thursday, rejecting Benedict's long-standing denials."