31 h. ago From bombs to glass: Hanford site can now transform nuclear waste

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state produced plutonium for most of America's nuclear arsenal through the end of the Cold War

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8 d. ago Jon Rahm: Europe VR headsets weren’t creative enough to match American fan abuse

Rahm was heckled during Tuesday’s practice round by an American who asked where his weight-loss drug Ozempic was.

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1 week ago From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home

Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasiesIn 1980, Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, an unrepentant former leader of the Nazi women’s bureau in Berlin from 1934 to 1945, described her former job to historian Claudia Koonz as “influencing women in their daily lives”.To her audience – approximately 4 million girls in the Nazi youth movement, 8 million women in Nazi associations under her jurisdiction, and 1.9 million subscribers to her women’s magazine, Frauen Warte, according to Koonz – Scholtz-Klink promoted what she called “the cradle and the ladle”, or reproductive and household duties as essential to national strength. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Outrage in Germany as 'Jews are banned' sign appears in shop window, with officials condemning 'Nazi era' anti

Local officials compare the sign to 1930' Germany where similar signs could be seen everywhere. The shop owner put the sign up himself claiming it is not antisemitism.

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2 w. ago ‘Jews not allowed, can’t stand you’: Outrage after antisemitic sign hung in store in Germany

Israel’s ambassador to Germany said the sign had echoes of the brutal repression faced by Jews in Nazi Germany

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2 w. ago Six great reads: rebels in Nazi Germany, how creativity works and Europe’s biggest pornography conference

Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the past seven days Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Boom times and total burnout: three days at Europe’s biggest pornography conference

The crowd that gathers in Amsterdam is exuberant. Pornography use is more common than ever, so earnings for many here are through the roof. But there is trouble afoot, from AI to chronic illness Brittany Andrews, a cheerful American porn star, cuts to the chase in her workshop on how to succeed in the adult industry.“Do you think about how much money you’re going to make before you make a clip? Do you know what stuff sells the best? Or do you just follow your creative spark?” she asks. She points to a young Ukrainian model in a gold sequined bra and denim shorts. “I’m starting with you, girlfriend!” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Weleda allegedly supplied cream used on prisoners in Dachau by SS doctor

Study claims Swiss firm provided Nazi concentration camp with anti-frostbite product used in deadly tests in early 1940sThe natural cosmetics company Weleda supplied a skin cream to the Dachau concentration camp that went on to be used for human testing, resulting in the agonising deaths of prisoners, a historian specialising in Nazi Germany has claimed.Weleda, founded 104 years ago and known worldwide for its holistic remedies, sourced large quantities of medicinal herbs during the Nazi era from an agricultural plantation overseen by the SS in Dachau, southern Germany, according to a major report by Anne Sudrow commissioned by the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Christoph von Dohnányi, who led Cleveland Orchestra until 2022, dies at 95

Christoph von Dohnányi, the renowned conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra from 1984 to 2002, has died at age 95

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4 w. ago 'Eerie similarities' between China and rise of Nazi Germany, says former minister

Victory day parade was attended by more than 20 world leaders, including Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong-Un

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