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Little Atoms weekly round up (the everything edition)
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This week on Little Atoms, featuring democracy in Africa, reform in the Gulf, drugs in Europe, and odd childhood stories from everywhere
Africa's new democratic revolution
Paul Melly says the fall of Burkina Faso's Blaise Compaoré suggests the days of the "Big Man" leader are over
Education is the key to soft power in the Gulf
The rise of Islamic State shouold give fresh impetus for the Gulf states to renew their social contracts
Five things that changed for the better when Portugal reformed its drug laws
Sponsored post: CISTA looks at how one European country decriminalised drug posession. PLUS:
DRUGS LIVE Storified
“Chinchillas lived in coffee jars” and 35 other odd things people believed when they were kids
Our readers have vivid imaginations
Future Everything - Alice Bell
We talk climate change and politics of science with the UK's leading radical science writer
You want range? We got range.
CISTA
Drugs Live
Burkina Faso
Saudi Arabia
democracy
social media
weird children
Portugal
Alice Bell
climate change
Society
World
Words
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