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The majority of the world is unable to process the lactose in milk without uncomfortable symptoms. Olga Miltsova/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Lactose intolerance is actually the human norm – but racism, the US government and business interests have made it into a condition

The vast majority of people around the world are lactose intolerant. But American propaganda and scientific biases have made milk and dairy products a staple in global diets.
Underwater data centers will accumulate sea life, like this Microsoft data center testing module, which in two years underwater attracted algae, barnacles and sea anemones. Microsoft

AI companies look to the ocean as a place to put more data centers

Moving servers into the ocean does not make underlying environmental challenges disappear. And it creates new concerns as well.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, attends a ceremony to mark the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China is claiming the right to punish its critics anywhere on Earth

China’s new ethnic unity law reaches across borders. The danger is not that it does so. It is what it criminalizes, whom it targets, and how it enforces.
Prime Minister of Samoa Laʻauli Leuatea Schmidt, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea James Marape, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister of Tonga, Fatafehi Fakafānua and ARLC Chairman Peter Vlandys ahead of a State of Origin match. Dave Hunt/AAP

Threats may change, but geography doesn’t. It’s time for Australia to be a good neighbour to the Pacific

Australia has long shifted from neglect to anxiety and activity in its relationship with the Pacific. Here’s why, and how, that needs to change.

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