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By Dan Go at The High Performance Journal: I’m removing most processed sugars and ultra-processed foods from my diet. These foods have been correlated with diseases like cancer, heart disease,
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While Blackstone discloses how it determines the final valuation, some on Wall Street have questioned how much latitude firms should have in appraising their own assets. The NY Times DealBook
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‘Why do you think they drew these stags here?’ Eduardo Palacio-Pérez, the conservator of the cave, asks me. ‘I really don’t think we’ll ever know for sure,’ I reply. Izzy
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“Since then, we’ve gotten out of the habit” Benjamin Parker at The Bulwark: Escalation management is a real thing—a lot of ink was spilled in the Cold War thinking about
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By Pablo Neruda: Mondays are meshed with Tuesdaysand the whole week with the whole year.Time cannot be cutwith your exhausted scissors,and all the names of the dayare washed out by
by Team Zeteo and Mehdi Hasan: A group of influential Republican senators has sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan, warning him not to issue
Chas Newkey-Burden at The Week: The ICC – not to be confused with the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which hears cases brought against nation states – is the “world’s
Majority left, West Pakistan Pakistan.Cabal saved, lands freed, businesses nationalizedPolitics monetized, economy amortized. Dreamers became Muhajirs, Safdar weeps at Jinnah’s tombSalim got to wait and weep at mother Rabia’s grave.
Morgan Meis at Slant Books: I happened to be in New York City a few weeks ago. It was during the weekend of the eclipse. It was the day of
Tasneem Zehra Husain in New Humanist: If science has a native tongue, it is mathematics. Equations capture, precisely, the relationships among the elements of a system; they allow us to pose
Thomas Zurbuchen in Quanta: Our sun is the best-observed star in the entire universe. We see its light every day. For centuries, scientists have tracked the dark spots dappling its
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