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Whatever badness there wassometimeswas not of us,but between us. Because there was goodness,which felt like a sure base.While badness felt onlylike incidents upon it. The badness was onlythe way you
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Martin Mroz at Quora: There are a number of serious consequences of obtaining US citizenship that apply to you and your children in perpetuity that you may not be aware
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The computer scientist Ellie Pavlick aims to find out: She is translating philosophical concepts such as “meaning” into concrete, testable ideas. John Pavlus in Quanta: Start talking to Ellie Pavlick about her
Mark Blacklock at Literary Review: Evidently, the time is ripe for a survey of the branch of cultural production concerned with the end of the world. And yet, as Lynskey
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Elle Griffin at The Elysian: In 2022, Penguin Random House wanted to buy Simon & Schuster. The two publishing houses made up 37 percent and 11 percent of the market
Some in Italy are trying to stop what they consider ‘debasing’ use of the sculpture By Justin Klawans in The Week: A recent report in The Associated Press describes how
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The Environmental Fine Art Landscape Photographer John Paul Caponigro continues to revisit an ongoing series he began in the late 1990s. Obsessed with color, the Resonance series “possesses my works’
The child hums as he carries, too late,his grandmother’s sugar-dusted lemon-glazed cake down the street to the neighbor who needs to be cheered,too late for the neighbor who’s stepped into
Nora McDonald at The Conversation: Social media apps regularly present teens with algorithmically selected content often described as “for you,” suggesting, by implication, that the curated content is not just
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Liz Wolfe at the Reason: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague is expected to issue a decision today on whether military arms suppliers bear culpability for how
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by Derek Neal in 3 Quarks Daily: There is a meme on the internet that you probably know, the one that goes, “Men will do x instead of going to
The giggle factor is finally history. Adam Frank at Aeon: After decades on the cultural margins, the question of life in the Universe beyond Earth is having its day in
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