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Ireland Just Voted to Legalize Abortion

Niall Carson/PA Wire/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, Ireland made history when the country voted to repeal its constitution’s Eighth Amendment, one of the strictest abortion laws in Europe. The referendum’s passage is a huge win for reproductive-rights advocates in a Catholic country that for decades pledged to…

No One Had Seen These Tiny Deer for 20 Years. Then One Day, They Came Back.

A large antlered muntjac.Leibniz IZW, WWF Vietnam, USAID Song Thanh Nature Rerserve Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.  In 1994, scientists researching in Vietnam first documented the elusive large-antlered muntjac in the semi-evergreen Vu Quang Nature Reserve, in…

The Apprenticeship of Jordan Peterson

Carlos Osorio/The Toronto Star via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you want to understand a little more about the rise of masculinity superstar Jordan Peterson, I recommend this piece by Bernard Schiff in the Toronto Star today. Schiff was a colleague and admirer of Peterson’s at the University…