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Sometimes delivered on stage, written in text message format, posted to social networks, poetry has made a comeback. A new generation is appropriating these writing styles to reflect modern day struggles.

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Sometimes delivered on stage, written in text message format, posted to social networks, poetry has made a comeback

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It seems that scientist have proven that the enigmatic gaze of the Mona Lisa does not follow you around the room. So why did we think that in the first place?

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It seems that scientist have proven that the enigmatic gaze of the Mona Lisa does not follow you as you move around the room. So why did we think that in the first place?

With one of his paintings, Gerhard Richter made an intervention into a long-running an passionate debate: Which way round should you put the toilet roll?

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La Nouvelle Vague is the cinephile movement for cinephiles. If you missed the boat: at the turn of the 1950s, Truffaut, Chabrol, Godard, Rivette, Rohmer and others revolutionised French cinema. 

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La Nouvelle Vague is the cinephile movement for cinephiles

Have you ever wondered why pop songs sometimes sound a little too familiar? Welcome to the world of pop-recycling where borrowing, sampling and interpolation are the order of the day. Featuring interviews with Placebo, Ed Sheeran, Charlie XCX and Lauv.

Pop Music: The Great Recycling Business

Have you ever wondered why pop songs sometimes sound a little too familiar? Welcome to the world of pop-recycling. Featuring interviews with Placebo, Ed Sheeran, Charlie XCX and Lauv.

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More than 10 million people in the world are behind bars with half of the world's prison population in Russian, Chinese or American jails. In the United States, where the prison population has risen sharply in recent decades. Artists are sounding the alarm: Jay Z, Denzel Curry and Meek Mill are calling for judicial reform.

More than 10 million people in the world are behind bars with half of the world's prison population in Russian, Chinese or American jails. 

Tracks: Planet Prison

In this tenth and final part of Tracks East, Central and Eastern Europeans - journalists, artists, a male model and a former sex worker - hold up a mirror to Western Europeans.

The West Seen from the East

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Since its invention in the 19th century, the bicycle has allowed Western women to move around independently. Today, it is the turn of women in Arab countries to discover its power. Though at first glance innocuous and common, the bicycle is unexpectedly feminist.

The Freedom to Cycle

Though at first glance innocuous and common, the bicycle is unexpectedly feminist

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Asbestos has been banned for decades in Europe but its effects are still with us. Cleaning up the carcinogenic fibre from our ageing buildings is a colossal task and it is still being produced and sold in many countries worldwide. Unscrupulous companies turn a profit whilst people die from exposure to the harmful substance. Will we ever be rid of asbestos?

Asbestos has been banned for decades in Europe but its effects are still with us. Will we ever be rid of the carcinogenic fibre?

Asbestos – The Never-Ending Story

Pakistan is facing flooding on an unprecedented scale due to unusually heavy monsoon rains. More than 728 people have been killed in the past month, 31,000 homes have been destroyed and 500,000 livestock drowned, whilst 32 million people have been displaced.

Pakistan: Surviving the Deluge

32 million people are displaced in Pakistan in unprecedented flooding due to unusually heavy monsoon rains.

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One hundred years ago, on February 2nd 1922, James Joyce’s Ulysses was published by Sylvia Beach in a small bookshop in Paris. The book, which consumed 7 years of Joyce’s life, years in which his family’s circumstances were very difficult, would have a profound and unprecedented impact on the literature and culture of the century to follow. 

Though Ulysses was banned initially in the US and UK, Joyce’s epic was soon celebrated as a masterpiece of modernism.

100 Years of Ulysses

Is Italy the cradle of populism in Europe? French professor Marc Lazar, specialist in the history and political sociology of Italy, looks at the political history of Italy.

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As Russia is occupied with its Ukrainian offensive, the conflict in between Armenia and Azerbaijan, that in 2020 left 7,000 dead, is flaring up again. In a region that Russia considers its sphere of influence, other regional powers, Iran and Turkey are taking an interest.

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Current research on genetics and artificial intelligence promises to revolutionise our world. But how is the art world engaging with the latest technology and advances in science? A focus on artists who are pushing boundaries and revealing the future.

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The philanthropic foundation set up by US billionaire Bill Gates quietly co-finances experiments with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in several African countries. In the age of philanthropic capitalism, billionaires "save the world" and make money in the process. But who is helped the most, ordinary Africans or the food industry?

 In the age of philanthropic capitalism, billionaires "save the world" and make money in the process. An investigation into GM experiments in Africa.

Africa, GMOs and Bill Gates

Portugal’s most famous singer of the twentieth century and Queen of Fado, Amália Rodrigues passed away in 1999. Beloved by all Portuguese people rich and poor, she became an ambassador for the Portuguese art of Fado, this music that expresses the unique Portuguese melancholic yearning that is  Saudade.

Portugal’s most famous singer of the twentieth century, Amália Rodrigues passed away in 1999. Beloved by all Portuguese people rich and poor, she became an ambassador for the Portuguese art of Fado.

Amália Rodrigues and the World of Fado

At the age of 12, Enrique Pérez Guerra was sexually abused by a priest. Paralysed by shame, he thought of committing suicide. Today he is one of only a few victims in Spain who are willing to speak out about their abuse as the Catholic church in Spain still refuses to fully cooperate with investigations.

At the age of 12, Enrique Pérez Guerra was sexually abused by a priest. Paralysed by shame, he thought of committing suicide. 

Re: Sexual Abuse in the Church

On 25 September, Italians go to the polls for an early election as the Mario Draghi government fell apart. Why does Italy have such unstable governments and what will the outcome of this latest election be?

Italy: European Champion of Instability?

After fifteen years with the White Stripes and The Raconteurs, Jack White started his solo career in 2012. 2022 marks a milestone for the Detroit-born artist with the release of two new albums: Fear of Dawn and Entering Heaven Alive. White is live in Paris at the legendary venue, the Olympia.

The White Stripes star is live in Paris to perform Fear of Dawn and Entering Heaven Alive.

Jack White at the Paris Olympia

Why did Frédéric Lechenault, a specialist researcher in interface systems, start knitting? The answers links pullovers with seismic activity.

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Jumpers and Earthquakes

Dr Philipp Rothemund promises great progress in prosthetic limbs with soft robots. Made from crisp packets. But what do olives have to do with soft robotics?

Olives and Prosthetic Limbs - What Links Them?

Nuclear energy: a clean energy for the future or a risk for humanity? As the European Union has classed nuclear as a green energy, France is building new power plants whilst Germany is decommissioning them. An in depth look at the future of atomic energy in the coming decades.

Nuclear: a clean energy source for the future or a risk for humanity? An in depth look at the future of atomic energy.

The Future of Nuclear Energy

What’s the link between a French stick and genome sequencing? Geneticists have managed to sequence the DNA of wheat, and it is more complicated than you might think.

Geneticists have managed to sequence the DNA of wheat, and it is more complicated than you might think.

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Is this a turning point in the war in Ukraine? In Russia, critics of Putin are raising their voices as the Russian military experiences setbacks and Putin meets Xi Jinping at the OCS summit.

OCS Summit: Putin and Xi Jinping

Yan is an illegal second child born during the One-Child policy. To avoid government punishment, Yan's parents hid their oldest daughter in the countryside and raised Yan as a girl. Now a young adult, Yan struggles with his gender identity and being treated as an outcast in a conservative society. His sole escape is drifting his father's old taxi on abandoned land.

A Short Film by Hanxiong Bo

Raised as a girl during China’s One-Child Policy, Yan struggles with his gender identity as a young adult.

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In Armenia, the trauma of defeat continues to shake civil society. The human cost of war has been very high for this small country of 3 million inhabitants. More than 10 000 people have been injured and almost 4 000 killed with 1600 soldiers still missing.

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