Colour schemes: Germany’s coming coalition
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 27 September 2021
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The country heads for a three-party government after a nail-biting election. We cut through the flurry of letters and colours to ask what is likely to happen next. The technology swiftly deployed to combat the coronavirus may also crack a four-decade-old problem: vaccinating against HIV. And evidence that the mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex may have liked a love bite.
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| 0:00.0 | Glaucoma didn't stop me getting to Barcelona. |
| 0:02.8 | You're opted. |
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| 0:14.7 | to make your business more accessible for people with sight loss. |
| 0:18.1 | R&I B. See differently. |
| 0:26.3 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. |
| 0:29.2 | I'm your host Jason Palmer. |
| 0:31.2 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective |
| 0:33.6 | on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:39.4 | The lightning fast development of vaccines |
| 0:41.6 | against the coronavirus had a lot to do |
| 0:44.1 | with piles of earlier work using MRNA. |
| 0:47.5 | Now there are hopes that same technology |
| 0:49.8 | will do what's proved elusive for four decades. |
| 0:52.9 | Provide protection against HIV. |
| 0:55.9 | And paleontologists looking at scars |
| 0:58.6 | commonly found in the bones of the mighty Taranosaurus Rex |
| 1:01.8 | have come up with a slightly titillating hypothesis. |
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