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Becoming the River Cleaner | Anssi Mikola | TEDxVaasa — Rivers are destroying our oceans: just 10 rivers carry 80% of the plastic pollution reaching the sea. Anssi Mikola invented a solution to this global crisis, but no one wanted it, not even for free. Join him on a journey…
Forgotten Landmines: 7 New Poetry Collections to Read This August — “You see, one can live without having survived,” writes Carolyn Forché. That sounds grim, and indeed it is, but it also points to one of the qualities that makes contemporary poetry so remark…
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A Bookstore Boom in a Time of Literacy Decline — I was standing in line at Chaucer’s Books, my local indie, when it occurred to me that the line was longer than usual. This has been happening regularly enough that I’ve stopped being s…
Tielemans cameo against PSG hints at Man Utd future — Manchester United's £35m signing Youri Tielemans makes an impressive debut in the 1-1 friendly draw against Paris St-Germain in Gothenburg.
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American Patriotism Has Always Privileged the Hopes of the Future Over the Sins of the Present — In June 1826, Thomas Jefferson penned his last-ever letter, an essay on the American project. He had been invited to attend a celebration in Washington, to mark the fiftieth anniversa
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Writing: The Preservation of Human Thought and Action — Writing is the physical manifestation of a spoken language. It is thought that human beings developed language circa 35,000 BCE as evidenced by cave paintings from the period of the Cro-Magnon Man (circa...
Why Do We Keep Murdering Our Darlings? — Why is everyone killing off their main characters? In the academic year 2021-2022 at the liberal arts college where I teach, I was startled by the trend. A plot contagion. Nothing is off limits, I …
Hermann Hesse on How to Read a Book and How to Read Yourself — Books show us what it is like to be another and at the same time return us to ourselves. We read to learn how to live — how to love and how to suffer, how to grieve and how to be glad. We rea…
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Iran Attacks US Bases; Fed Call & AI Earnings Loom | The Opening Trade 7/29/2026 — Iran fired on American forces overnight and the US and Saudi Arabia struck Tehran-backed militias in Iraq, abruptly ending a days-long lull in hostilities. The US and Iran had paused attacks at…
The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in July — Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and documentaries into their ever-rotating libraries. So what’s a dedicated reader to w…
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How World War I Foretold Our Current Age of Competing Nationalisms — Close to Thiepval, a small French village in Picardy with about a hundred inhabitants, stands one of the most poignant memorials to the millions killed in World War I. More than fifty meters tall, …
Israeli settlers pitch tents for new illegal outpost in occupied West Bank — UN Special Rapporteur Albanese warns that Israel is 'using settlers to advance ethnic cleansing' in the West Bank.
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Lebanon ‘detains’ former al-Assad-era general, weighs handing him to Syria — Judicial and security sources say a routine embassy visit landed a wanted former Syrian general in a Beirut jail cell.
The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on How to Grow Old and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart — “If you can fall in love again and again … if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical, man you’ve got it half…
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The Losses that Carry Us: A Tribute to Marjane Satrapi — On Thursday morning, June 4, I woke to the tragic and shocking news of Marjane Satrapi’s death. It was not the first time I had learned of a loved one’s loss in exile in the most mundane, alienatin…
Existentialist Embroidery — The summer I turned forty, my maternal grandmother, then ninety, gave me an astonishing embroidery she had completed it when she was my age after, having worked on it for years. The cascading geome…
Será que o espaço ainda vale a pena? | João Lousada | TEDxLisboa — Há 25 anos que não passa um único dia sem seres humanos a viver e a trabalhar no espaço. Cada português contribui com cerca de 10 cêntimos por ano. Mas com tantos problemas por resolver na Terra, porquê…
This Amazing Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting. Here's How Joel Sartore Built His 'Photo Ark' — For 20 years, the National Geographic photographer has showcased Earth’s animals in a series of striking images that make even the tiniest creatures…
Spotify just hit 300 million Premium subscribers — Spotify announced that it now has 300 million Premium subscribers, three times more than Apple Music.
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The 5 Best Songs Of The Week — Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which…
Putin can no longer claim victory in Ukraine, Nobel Peace Prize winner tells BBC — In an exclusive interview with the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg, Dmitry Muratov says the Kremlin leader can only "destroy Ukraine, not conquer it", with the war now in its fifth year.
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The ten sickest burns in Emily Wilson’s Odyssey review, ranked. — Emily Wilson, the classicist behind the buzziest Odyssey translation of my generation, has finally weighed in on the film adaptation of her favorite poem. And so dark was the shade that Wilson̵…
Sonia Feldman Recommends Books About the Thrilling Dynamics of Girls’ Friendship — Internet rumor holds that manga artist Naoko Takeuchi created the beloved classic Sailor Moon about a group of girls she wished were her friends because she was lonely. Memes periodically circulate
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1,000年先へ紡ぐ、私たちの「国生み神話」 | 富士子 竹谷 | TEDxAwaji — 国生みの地・淡路島には、巨大な巨石群やスフィンクスのような岩など、太古の記憶を宿す聖地が眠っています。 本トークでは、これらの場所を「世界の聖地」として再定義し、日本のルーツへの誇りを呼び起こします。淡路島を巡礼の地へと変えていくビジョンを通して、人々が自然や歴史、そして自分自身と再びつながる体験を提案します。次世代へと価値をつなぐ、情熱と再生の物語です。…