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Baby Boom Goes Bust: No Matter The Incentive, Governments Fail To Boost Birth Rates

Studies show that countries around the world will see their populations shrink by 2050. To combat demographic decline, a growing list of countries are implementing policies to try to encourage women to have babies — yet these birth rate policies don’t ever seem to work.

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Society Weird

A Weird Week Indeed: Millennial Saint, Gathering Of Kyles, Pet Gala

While busy delivering the best international journalism, the Worldcrunch team also stumbles on a fair deal of downright strange stuff happening around the world, reported in every language.

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Society Weird

A Weird Week Indeed: Rock ‘n’ Blinken, Space-Out Competition, Northern Lights Mix-Up

While busy delivering the best international journalism, the Worldcrunch team also stumbles on a fair deal of downright strange stuff happening around the world, reported in every language.

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Society Weird

A Weird Week Indeed: Longest Baguette, Panda Dogs, Healing Primate

While busy delivering the best international journalism, the Worldcrunch team also stumbles on a fair deal of downright strange stuff happening around the world, reported in every language.

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Society Weird

A Weird Week Indeed: NYC’s Cheeseball King, Electric Irony In Nigeria, Grumpy Plato

While busy delivering the best international journalism, the Worldcrunch team also stumbles on a fair deal of downright strange stuff happening around the world, reported in every language.

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Food / Travel

Gùsto! How · What · Where Locals Eat (And Drink) In Marseille

France’s second largest city and the namesake to its national anthem, Marseille is a place where food is sacred, from Michelin-star restaurants to neighborhood bistros. Here’s a quick guide on where to go for drinks, food and cultural enrichment in the Phocean City.

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Society

A Weird Week Indeed: Milan’s Pizza Ban, EU Parliament Dove, Cicada Salad

While busy delivering the best international journalism, the Worldcrunch team also stumbles on a fair deal of downright strange stuff happening around the world, reported in every language.

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Society

Education, Internet And The Growing Risk Of A “Parallel School”

A new alternative education model is emerging online, competing unintentionally with the traditional school institution. Are we prepared for the change?

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Weird

A Weird Week Indeed: My Octopus Problem, Ew-Gi-Oh, 353 Ballerinas

While busy delivering the best international journalism, the Worldcrunch team also stumbles on a fair deal of downright strange stuff happening around the world, reported in every language.

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Weird

A Weird Week Indeed: Reverse Art Heist, Eclipse Ouchies, The Fish & Chips Elixir

While busy delivering the best international journalism, the Worldcrunch team also stumbles on a fair deal of downright strange stuff happening around the world, reported in every language. Here’s our weekly collection of this weird, weird world.

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Weird

A Weird Week Indeed: Paris Waiters Race, Thai Monkey Mayhem, 0.3-Second Basketball Game

While busy delivering the best international journalism, the Worldcrunch team also stumbles on a fair deal of downright strange stuff happening around the world, reported in every language. Here’s our weekly collection of this weird, weird world.

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Society

Music As “Beautiful Object” — Why The Vinyl Resurgence Is So Strong In France

Sales of vinyl have tripled in the past five years in France, and Paris trails only Tokyo. In this age of dematerialization, LPs symbolize a return to a ceremonial approach to music, a taste for beautiful objects and a desire to give and collect.

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Food / Travel

Lizard Soup, Sniffing An Onion And Other International Cold Remedies

Chicken soup and vitamins are all fine and dandy, but there’s a world of uncommon ways to fight the common cold out there!

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Food / Travel

Foie Gras To Bathtub Carps: T’is The Season To Eat Weird Stuff Around The World

As Christmas revelers around the world are busy buying the ingredients necessary to cook up a feast for their loved ones, we take you on a global tour of the yummiest and yuckiest this time of the year brings to the table.

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