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This is David, your human web crawler. I've travelled through time and space from last Friday to this, and here I am, back in your inbox. With me: a fresh issue of the Weekly Filet, the newsletter for curious minds who love it when something makes them go «Huh, I never thought of it this way!». It's great to see you again.1. No, You Don’t Want to Time TravelI had never thought of this: even if we somehow invented a way to time travel, it wouldn't be as cool as sci-fi tells us. In fact, using a time machine would mean you would end up somewhere in cold, dark space and die pretty quickly. Because «moving through time also means moving through space.»No, You Don’t Want to Time TravelWhat’s forgotten when imagining time travel2. Tracking Western Europe’s heatwaveReuters' «Climate Monitor» puts the enormous heat in Europe in perspective, with a number of excellent data visualisations. As I'm writing this, it reads: «An estimated 334 million people, 91% of Western Europe's population, are…

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