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Why Burning Man is Silicon Valley

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imageBurning Man: inspiration for the first Google doodle.Jim Urquhart/Reuters

“Burning Man is Silicon Valley”, tech magnate Elon Musk declared last year. But the annual festival in the middle of the Nevadan Black Rock desert may seem an unlikely place to encounter the dotcom aristocracy. Its lunar-barren landscape is a world away from the...

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Genetic data reveals how wild boar became farmyard pigs

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Ever thought how the ingredients for that bacon sandwich got to your plate? By that, I mean the amazing historical journey that has transformed the animal and plant species we farm today into the huge global biomass that now feeds billions of us.

The shift from hunting and foraging to farming began some 12,000 years ago and was one of the most...

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