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Jamie Linsley-Parrish at at JSTOR Daily: If deliberate, predatory lending at a geo-political scale has occurred, evidence points towards Western antagonists. Vladimir Lenin famously accused England of using debt to
Matt Huston at Psyche: Babies have plenty in common with each other – the crying, the crawling, the sleeping – but their own little personalities are on display too. One
Continue readingHow Babies’ and Children’s Temperament Varies Around the World
Ode on Solitude By Alexander Pope Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk,
By Devika Rao at The Week: The sun is currently at solar maximum. This means that the celestial body is at its peak activity, releasing higher levels of radiation and
Continue readingGetting to the Red Planet Requires Planning and a Whole Lot of Knowledge
Toby Walsh at The Conversation: Google has rolled out its latest experimental search feature on Chrome, Firefox and the Google app browser to hundreds of millions of users. “AI Overviews”
Urine in the air; Fake News; Hey Google; Czar Trek; Biden’s Foreign Policy, and more:
at The Conversation‘s Curious Kids series: Many, many years ago dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Six-year-old Aga knows that a meteorite wiped them out… but could another meteorite bring them back?
Continue readingIf an Asteroid Hit Earth and All the Humans Died, Would the Dinosaurs Come Back?
by Rebecca Baumgartner at 3 Quarks Daily: A little over a year ago, in Allen, Texas, we saw the precise moment when a “good guy with a gun” became a
by Santiago Ramos at Wisdom of Crowds: I’m moving, which means I’ve spent the last few days disoriented between pillars of boxes, lost without my daily routine and familiar living
To learn more about your new Kenmore washer, break the plastic seal.—from the manufacturer’s instructions I’ve a friend who says, “Treat anything mechanicalas if it’s just about to break.”I’ve a
J.D. Tuccille at the Reason: “Cash was once a staple in the economy, but it’s fast becoming a relic of the past,” according to an April report on Australia’s financial
Continue readingAustralians Abandon Physical Cash and the Freedom It Protects
at Poetic Outlaws: Nothing has a more divisive and alienating effect upon society than… moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual
Continue readingCarl Jung: Where Love Stops, Power Begins, and Violence, and Terror