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I don’t know about you, but I read more now than I ever have. I read at work, I read while I’m watching TV, I read when I’m walking down the street, I read while I’m waiting in line for coffee. And yet, I don’t seem to find enough time to read for pleasure…to relax..to spend more than a few fleeting moments taking in information instead of relaxing and reading for fun. That is what weekends are for.
I present for your reading pleasure some of the best (and most popular) stories from The Conversation over the last seven days. Relax. Enjoy. Read.
All the best,
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Your Weekend Reads
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Fang Wan, University of Manitoba
The Trump brand has taken a hit since Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency. The mistake? Failing to separate the businesses from the personalities.
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Jan Hoole, Keele University
Humans tend to associate cats purring with happiness, but in turns out they also purr when in pain, hungry and alone.
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Elisabeth Vallet, Université du Québec à Montréal
Deadly, ineffective and generally fated to fall, border walls are multiplying and becoming the new normal in international relations.
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Alan Collins, University of Adelaide; Andrew Merdith, University of Sydney
You would not recognise Earth if you saw it 500 million years ago - the lands, oceans, climate and life were all very different. Scientists now have a new map of the deep history of Earth.
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Lorenzo Fioramonti, University of Pretoria
All over the world people who have been harmed by the conventional money systems are devising alternative currencies, challenging the centralised monetary policy approach.
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Fabienne Cazalis, École des Hautes Études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
Les signes de l’autisme sont souvent moins visibles chez les femmes que chez les hommes. Il se manifeste aussi de façon différente, entraînant chez elles un sous-diagnostic de cette condition.
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Meg Jing Zeng, Queensland University of Technology
Just as Taiwan legalised same sex marriage, China shut down the country's most iconic lesbian social media platform.
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Richard B. Rood, University of Michigan
Set aside the politics. If by some miracle we turned off carbon emissions immediately, how would the climate respond?
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