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Centre of no attention: Chile’s presidential election

The Intelligence from The Economist

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Bird Singing Into the Night

Birds have this on off pattern where they rotate between over a thousand different sounds and improvised phrases, never repeated. It's a very liquid, mellifluous, quixotic, eccentric, electronic, quite unusual sound. Some people at least have learnd to fly with the birds and sing with them. What j a baker did was to learn to see like a bird. He began to follow a particular peregrine and wrote a book about it.

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