I call this fake news, browsers have had the ability to scale vertically and horizontally for ages and obviously TDB fully supports it as well. It even boasts experimental support for multi monitor setup (although some glitches are to be expected)
I sincerely doubt that had any real implication. Transport was quite bad those days and dragging them across 50 states would be quite taxing on a horse. The law changed accordingly as the situation evolved
Slight nit - they used to say "on Ukraine" (на Украине) as in /on Ukrainian land/. In contrast to the term "in" - "in Ukraine" - which is something you would use to reference an entity, for ex. a country.
Because the author hasn't seen the actual study, they've just rehashed something from Reuters/AP/similar and fleshed it out a bit with some more 'India facts'.
Also because, although I agree with you, 99.9+% of BBC visitors don't care and won't click it, and some high proportion of the remainder won't have access to more than the abstract, another will immediately bounce because they clicked accidentally or didn't realise studies had lots of boring words and weren't YouTube videos of exciting lab experiments with white coats, etc.
It absolutely is. Thankfully we have 200 billion combinations we don't have to use while still covering every person in the world for the next hundreds years or so.
Not to deter from the point but DDG also returns Google Earth as a first result of the search for Earth. The algorithms can be (and are) manipulated; it's called SEO. Fun example is an image search
of "white couple".
