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Saturday, October 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The first-ever international conference on the contentious topic of “overshoot” was held last week in... The post Overshoot: Exploring the implications of meeting 1.5C climate goal ‘from above’ appear
After 17 years of struggling with a heroin addiction, Raina finds a path to recovery through compassion and connection - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Fifty-nine years after Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panthers, Charlotte and Pete O’Neal remain in exile in Tanzania. Their story, told through interviews, archives, and firsthand repo
7,000 words to tell an 80-year-old story
From The Washington Post: The clues that Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban’s nearly 20-year marriage was cracking up were everywhere, according to an internet full of sleuths. You could tell when Urban re
Podcast with Robert Wright
His Nobel is a triumph for history and the importance of ideas
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Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two new reports.
It’s primarily a vehicle for crony capitalism now