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A vote for Ukraine: why Estonia’s election matters
The Intelligence from The Economist
What Is the Schmidt Pain Index?
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Economist Justin Schmidt spent 35 years investigating stingy insects. He plunged his arms into a whole colony of bees when he was moving a hive. And bravely put his trainer into a nest full of bullet ants and then ran away. At one point, he was harvesting the venom of ants to compare the different species. It took 400 ants to provide 1,000th of a teaspoon of venom.
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