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A farmer in Sri Lanka, an oil trader in Dubai, and a central banker in Beijing have something surprising in common: they…
5 min readIn 2022, Sri Lanka simply ran out of money. Not the way a household does, but in the far stranger way that entire nation…
5 min readDiamonds are not rare. They are not particularly hard to find, and they are far more common than rubies, sapphires, or e…
5 min readFor decades, the two-hour marathon stood like a wall at the edge of human endurance — a barrier so daunting that experts…
5 min readSwitzerland has no oil, no coal, barely any farmland, and not a single metre of coastline. It is small, landlocked, and …
5 min readYou will spend around a third of your entire life asleep — unconscious, defenceless, and doing, apparently, nothing. Fro…
5 min readA penalty kick looks like the simplest thing in football: one player, one ball, one goalkeeper, twelve yards. Yet it is …
5 min readA baseball that drops off a table. A free kick that starts wide of the post and then, impossibly, curls back inside it. …
5 min readToday they are the cheapest things in your kitchen — a jar of cinnamon, a pinch of nutmeg, a grind of pepper. But for mo…
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