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Hello and welcome to another edition of The Crunch!

In this week’s newsletter we have charts on the melting of glaciers around the world, how the baby boom reshaped populations in many different countries, who controls the Murdoch family trust, how Germany’s economic strength became a weakness and what it looks like to run the game Pong on hundreds of browser tabs.