What are the lessons from one of the most terrible battles of WW1?

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Folge vom 20.04.2022Passchendaele: did hundreds of thousands die in vain?
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Folge vom 19.04.2022CybercrimeDo you get phone calls warning you that your home computer has a security problem or a text message about a parcel you can’t recall having ordered? Scammers and hackers are using every trick in the book to make the most of digital technology and cyber security is now a growth industry.
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Folge vom 18.04.2022The Glasgow Gifford Lectures 3: 'Human tribalism - a curse of our evolutionary past?'When we've spent 95% of our evolutionary past living in small tribal groups, what's prepared us to live and work in vast metropolises with millions of others?
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Folge vom 14.04.2022The Wilderness MythAs Australia’s population expands wild places shrink. To protect the remaining patches we want to lock it up and keep people out. But what exactly is wilderness? Is it a place untouched by human hands? An indigenous geographer says that what we call wilderness is not nature left to its own devices but the result of thousands of years of indigenous landcare.