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UK houses near top state secondary schools cost £40,000 more, research reveals

Premium of nearly 10% paid by housebuyers comparable with cost of a cheaper private school over seven yearsA house near a top state secondary school costs an extra £40,000 on average, according to research that reveals education premiums that rank alongside some private school fees.The average property in a postcode district that includes a top 50 state secondary commands a price tag of £415,791, compared with £375,217 across the wider local authority areas in which those schools are located, a UK-wide analysis by the estate agent Yopa found. Continue reading...

Trump officials cut political interference ban after unusual Census Bureau report

After the Census Bureau issued a report tied to a Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau's parent agency cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, NPR learned.

Arsenal edge past troubled Aston Villa 1-0 as Saka scores only goal

Victory ​lifts Arsenal to six points ⁠along with Man ⁠City, Hull City and Chelsea, while Villa remain without a point.

旅行

Why We Go: From the Grand Tour to the TikTok Itinerary

Humans have been leaving home for no practical reason for at least six hundred years, and every generation has told itself a different story about why. Jack and Emma trace the restless impulse from Chaucer's pilgrims and the eighteenth-century Grand Tour to Thomas Cook's temperance excursions and the fifteen-second itinerary, and ask whether wanderlust is a hunger, a status game, a genetic quirk, or simply the most elaborate way we have of avoiding ourselves.

爱情与家庭

Fifty Years and Still Arguing Well

Jack's grandparents just celebrated their golden anniversary, and their marriage has become something of a running family mystery: how do two profoundly stubborn, occasionally combustible people remain devoted after five decades? Jack and Emma tease apart the anatomy of durable love, drawing on relationship research, philosophy, and a fair amount of dry humor.

社会

The Third Place Is Disappearing

Jack and Emma trace the quiet disappearance of the informal, unstructured gathering spots, cafes, pubs, barbershops, that once glued communities together, drawing on Ray Oldenburg's 'third place' concept and Robert Putnam's social capital research.