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Book by Charlie Hebdo editor Charb published posthumously
"A book on Islamophobia written by late Charlie Hebdo editor Charb, completed two days before he was killed in an attack on the weekly's Paris offices on January 7, is to be published on Thursday. In a short book which at times feels chillingly prescient, Charb – whose real name is Stéphane Charbonnier – expressed concern that the fight against racism is being replaced by a struggle against 'Islamophobia', which he argued defends Islam more than it does Muslims."
Germany’s army is so under-equipped that it used broomsticks instead of machine guns
"The German army has faced a shortage of equipment for years, but the situation has recently become so precarious that some soldiers took matters into their own hands. On Tuesday, German broadcaster ARD revealed that German soldiers tried to hide the lack of arms by replacing heavy machine guns with broomsticks during a NATO exercise last year." As the article notes, these particular troops are part of a task-force that'd be first to be deployed in event of NATO action.
Flawed IQ scoring system: Important difference in American, Canadian scoring systems
To cite a researcher in the article: "Research shows that you can go from being classified as average to intellectually impaired based only on whether American or Canadian norms are used to rank the obtained raw IQ score."
About 200 000 ‘new’ species are not!
How much should you trust claims about the total number of species in existence?