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Wednesday May 16th, 2018 evening edition

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Two new pages from Anne Frank's diary have been published, containing a handful of dirty jokes and her thoughts on sex.

The hidden pages had been covered with gummed brown paper - apparently to hide her risqué writing from her family.

The entries were written on 28 September 1942, not long after the 13-year-old Anne went into hiding.

"Anne Frank writes about sexuality in a disarming way," said Ronald Leopold of the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam.

Writing about the decision to publish pages that Anne clearly wanted to keep hidden, the museum said that her diary - a Unesco-registered world heritage document - held significant academic interest.

But it also said that the pages "do not alter our image of Anne".

Anne Frank died of disease in a Nazi death camp in 1945, the year the war ended. »

Nouns slow down speech across structurally and culturally diverse languages

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These conditions on noun use appear to outweigh potential advantages stemming from differences in internal complexity between nouns and verbs.

For example, marking the end of utterances by slowing down speech is cross-linguistically common, but its implementation is language-specific (7).

In particular, slower speech and more pauses before nouns entail a lower likelihood of contraction of independent words. »

Petition To Save ‘The Expanse’ After Syfy Cancellation Hits 75,000 Signatures, Fans Appeal Directly To Amazon

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But fans of The Expanse took immediate action to help save the show, including a petition that has quickly reached 75,000 signatures.

“Syfy just announced they won’t be continuing The Expanse after the third season which is a d**n shame.

Fans have gathered on the show’s Reddit page to push these efforts, which included a creative bid to get Amazon’s attention. »

The U.K. Just Went 55 Hours Without Using Coal for the First Time in History

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Coal, which fueled the world’s biggest economies for more than a century, is increasingly losing out to renewables.

The latest example of how one of the dirtiest fossil fuels is being squeezed out of the market came this week in Britain, which went for a record 55 hours without its any of its power plants producing electricity by burning coal.

The government aims to switch off all coal plants by 2025 and has given renewables priority access to the grid. »

Today, the Senate Votes to Save Net Neutrality

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Today, the United States Senate will vote on whether or not to save net neutrality.

All 49 Senate Democrats, with the support of key Republican Senators, have successfully forced a Resolution of Disapproval vote regarding the FCC’s 3-2 repeal of net neutrality in December of 2017.

Since the FCC decision, activists have been working hard to restore net neutrality protections. »