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âAnguish,â âagony,â âache,â âafflictionâ â why are there so many words for pain? Darcey Steinke unpacks the meaning of suffering
The dictionary, initially a monument to language fixed in amber, is less a fortress than a weather vane
Science and seeking. Participation in mainstream religions has plummeted. The study of consciousness has exploded. Coincidence?
Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin was the first person to go to space. What this article presupposes isâŚmaybe he wasnât? It all boils down to what your definition of space is.
A report on recent gatherings
Reducing Waste. Eliminating Fraud. Promoting Civic Responsibility. At least thatâs what the city bureaucrats said.
Fuel economy rules have reduced U.S. dependence on oil. Trump ripped them up â and then sent gas prices through the roof.
Another recent HyperCard discovery (that isnât somehow in the Internet Archive): an âexpanded bookâ version of William Gibsonâs Sprawl Trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive).
From Laphamâs Quarterly: Donovan Hohn speaks with essayist and critic Morgan Meis, author of a trilogy of books about the history of art, civilization, war, and much else. In The Drunken Silenus: On G
The recent sequence of assassinations in the Middle East illustrates how acts once considered extraordinary can become normalized, raising the alarming possibility that the next boundary to fall could
Complaints of extreme heat are rising The post Itâs Not Just You. Subways the World Over Are Feeling Hotter appeared first on Nautilus.
âStanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues invented a new vaccine that protects mice from respiratory viruses, bacteria and allergens â the closest yet to a universal vaccine.â
Victoria Atkinson at Live Science: The strength of metallic bonding â and, therefore, the melting point â also decreases from the top to the bottom of the periodic table, as the atoms get larger. But
Ghost Elephants is a new documentary film directed by Werner Herzog for National Geographic. Hereâs the trailer. For over a decade, Dr. Steve Boyes, conservation biologist and National Geographic Expl
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The US and Israelâs war on Iran has caused oil and gas prices to soar,... The post Q&A: What does the Iran war mean for the energy transition and climate action? appeared first on Carbon Brief.
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Githubâs uptime lately seemsâŚ..concerning?
"While we weaken friendships by expecting too little of them, we undermine romantic relationships by expecting too much of them."
Polly has been wanting a cracker for millenia The post Ancient People Traded Live Parrots Across South America for Thousands of Years appeared first on Nautilus.
"We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves that there may be ground enough for friendship."
What institutions besides the Louvre consider to be their âMona Lisaâ
Probabilities aren't just in the world!
Nicola Jones in Nature: The escalating conflict between the United States, Israel and Iran has thrown a spotlight on the use of artificial intelligence in warfare. Just one day before the USâIsraeli o
And why it's a problem that Pete Hegseth says he does
They canât agree on whether itâs a war, a mission, regime change, or self-defense. They donât need to. They just need Congress to stay out.
Shahram Khosravi at Cabinet Magazine: Ali Shariati, often regarded as the principal ideologue of the Iranian Revolution, was a student in Paris in the late 1950s when he became involved with the Alger
âBillionaires made 19 percent of all reported federal campaign contributions in 2024, a Times analysis shows, and even more in some local elections.â The Scale of Billionairesâ Campaign Donations is O
Some with âhigh blast radiusâ
Today's links Ad-tech is fascist tech: Surveillance advertising is just surveillance. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Washpo v Bernie; Activists v Saif Gadaffi's London man
They may offer new clues to the mystery of consciousness The post Inside the Brains of Monks Who Have Meditated for 15,000 Hours appeared first on Nautilus.
We have another report that Israel used the military power the US underwrites to pressure Donald Trump into a disastrous war in Iran. US military aid to Israel makes Americans â to say nothing of the
Anika Burgess at The New Yorker: Oldoini was born in Florence, in 1837, just two years before the announcement of a new photographic medium: the daguerreotype. In 1854, at sixteen, she married the twe
The Shape of Paris is a balletic short film of skateboarder Andy Anderson zooming, grinding, spinning, and floating around Paris in the summertime. It is also beautifully shot by Brett Novak; Paris ha
If youâve ever wondered why Wall Street obsesses over earnings when cash flow seems more âreal,â a new study has some answers that might change how you think about valuation.
Donald Trump has begun suggesting that his war on Iran may be over âvery soonâ as oil prices soar. Trump will proclaim victory no matter what happens, but he wonât be able to say what âvictoryâ means,
The Modern Times cafe moved to a pay-what-you-want model during the ICE occupation of Minneapolis. Now the cafe is making it permanent (and pivoting to a nonprofit). âSome had come for a free meal; ot
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