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Ideas Society

Lebanese Tears, Déjà Vu Science, French Sandwich: The Most Popular Worldcrunch Stories Of The Year

Also: a look inside the slippery world of stand-up comedy in China and Ukraine’s clandestine online school network.

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Green Society

No Limit? Kilian Jornet And The Ecological Paradox Of Mountain Running

Setting mountaineering speed records is a way for trail runners to add their names to history books to stay in the spotlight now that almost all the world’s mountains have already been climbed. But this desire to push limits is not ecological — even for a man who recycles or foregoes airplane travel.

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