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  A Viking's penny pendant is found near King's Lynn

  BBC News

  A St Edmund memorial penny worn by a Viking to "advertise his Christianity" has been found by a metal detectorist. The Anglo-Saxon king was killed by the Vikings in AD869 and made a saint shortly afterwards. Numismatist Adrian Marsden said the pagan Vikings went from killing Edmund to "striking coins …

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  ‘No place in America’: Biden denounces killing of four Muslims

  Al Jazeera

  Police are investigating the murder of Muslim men in the US state of New Mexico as a possible hate crime. President Joe Biden denounced the killings of four Muslim men in New Mexico state that police say may be linked and could be a hate crime. “I am angered and saddened by the horrific killings of …

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  What’s the environmental impact of EV battery manufacturing and recycling?

  Digital Trends - By Simon Sage

  One major caveat to the spread of electric vehicles is the question of what we’re going to do with all of these car batteries once their time is up. …

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  The chemical imbalance theory of depression is dead, but that doesn’t mean antidepressants don’t work

  psypost.org - Christopher Davey

  The chemical imbalance theory of depression is well and truly dead. A paper by Joanna Moncrieff and colleagues, long-time critics of the …

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  London must power up its post-Brexit tech boom

  The Telegraph - Matthew Lynn

  Other tech companies have been expanding just as quickly. Apple is planning a vast new campus at the redeveloped Battersea Power Station. Google has a huge central London headquarters while work is completed on its King’s Cross building that comes complete with a swimming pool and sports …

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  19 hours ago

  Climate Reality Is Hitting Us Like a Breakaway Glacier

  truthout.org - JP Sottile

  It was an “instant classic” viral video. A hiker enjoying a guided trip in the Tian Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan pulled out his cellphone and …