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Staunch anti-Nazis, the members of Berlinâs Fest family were penalized first for their politics, and then as defeated Germans
Trotsky in Mexico. How Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and a Kremlin-hatched plot led to an ice axe in the head
Did Kamel Daoud steal the story in his Goncourt-prize-winning novel? âI felt betrayed,â said a patient of his wifeâs therapy practice
A data analysis of how womenâs clothing doesnât actually fit women. âThat leaves millions of people â over half of all adult women â who are excluded from standard size rangesâ in their 20s and beyond
From Jonathan Bateâs Literary Remains: One of the most consequential misunderstandings in the history of literary criticism turns on a single Greek word. In Aristotleâs Poetics, that word is hamartia.
Time to start thinking about the framework for this...
From Saudi oil influence to local sightings in Morocco, the commencement of Ramadan serves as a symbol of global Islamic geopolitics
Ecologists detect promising, early signs of river recovery The post Is a Strictly Enforced Fishing Ban Saving the Yangtze? appeared first on Nautilus.
In the 1930s, a radical conservative political group almost succeeded in overthrowing Finlandâs democracy: Called the Lapua movement, it was a far-right group of Finns who sought to overthrow the repu
Why are we doing this to our kids?
Amber Dance in Quanta: Researchers have been mapping the brain for more than a century. By tracing cellular patterns that are visible under a microscope, theyâve created colorful charts and models tha
A list of all the media (movies, books, TV shows, plays, etc.) consumed by Steven Soderbergh in 2025.
"Is there anything we know more intimately than the fleetingness of time, the transience of each and every moment?"
Whereâd you get that frog? The post The Dark Side of the Illicit Pet Frog Trade appeared first on Nautilus.
Skeptics risk being unemployable and most donât know it yet
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The Brattle theater is playing what they call the Ultimate Double Feature: âwe play the first movie up until the point when the characters enter a cinema to watch a different filmâ, then play the enti
You know who else had a Greenland obsession? âGreenland appears to have been a lifelong preoccupation of Adolf Hitlerâs.â
W. Grey Walterâs early automatons sparked an ongoing fascination with artificial animals The post The Tortoises That Inspired Modern Robotics appeared first on Nautilus.
Almos C. Molnar and Steven Sloman at ScienceDirect: Zero-sum bias refers to the tendency to believe that anything gained by one side is lost by the other when in fact win-win outcomes are available. P
Effective altruists have repeatedly been right and done incredible amounts of good
I love these collage illustrations of various celebrities and famous characters by artist/designer Fries Vansevenant: Han Solo & Luke Skywalker, Notorious BIG, Heath Ledgerâs Joker, Beatrix Kiddo, Dav
Plus: Why communist reforms almost always failed, the golden age of vaccines, and the everything plant.
New research into umbilical cord blood shows a startling number of PFAS The post Babies Are Exposed to More Forever Chemicals in Utero Than Previously Thought appeared first on Nautilus.
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A new report has found that âthe promises of planet-saving tech remain hollowâ.
A client recently asked me an excellent question after reading Torsten Slokâs December 28th observation in The Daily Spark: if foreign purchases of US assets increased in 2025 versus 2024, why did the
"Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself."
The post The Quest For Clean Cargo appeared first on NOEMA.
Our 3 experts look 10 years ahead to rank all 30 NBA teams in future title odds.
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Welcome to Carbon Briefâs China Briefing. China Briefing handpicks and explains the most important climate... The post China Briefing 19 February 2026: CO2 emissions âflat or fallingâ | First tariff l
Ashawnta Jackson in JSTOR Daily: While bedridden with dysentery, Wright picked up a volume of haikuâa Japanese poetic form containing three unrhymed lines with a 5/7/5 syllabic patternâand fell in lov
Today's links Six years of Pluralistic: Time flies when you're writing the web. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MBA phrenology; Sony's DRM CEO is out; Midwestern Tahrir; Re
Jim Hartley in National Association of Scholars: Every now and then, I had heard that Wright was a fantastic writer. But not often enough; most of the time I heard about him it was in the context of â
Omari Weeks at Bookforum: On Morrison, Namwali Serpellâs foray into the expanding field of Morrison scholarship, picks up where these previous monographs left off. Serpell, an award-winning fiction wr
Today would have been the birthday of the late, great footballer SĂłcrates, who challenged the military dictatorship in his native Brazil â an example needed today on the eve of a World Cup designed to
Birds To what degree must you be completely and utterly cold to someone to love them usefully? __ In anatomy lab, one group member held the scalpel while another held the hand. We did this for a year
Talking A.I. and politics with John Ganz?
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