What Makes a Friendship Last Forever?
Jamie Ducharme in Time Magazine: There are many flavors of friendship. Most U.S. adults say they have pals who fit into specific niches in their lives, like gym friends or work friends. These
Sunday Poem: The Moon Rose Over the Bay. I Had a Lot of Feelings.
I am taken with the hot animalof my skin, grateful to swing my limbs and have them move as I intend, thoughmy knee, though my shoulder, though somethingis torn or
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The New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the 21st Century
by Adele A. Wilby at 3 Quarks Daily: Many decades ago, I was fortunate to have had the opportunity of living in India for several years. I was enthralled by
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Telegram Creator Pavel Durov Used his Talents to Create a Russian Facebook, Organize College Beauty Contests, and Help Classmates Cheat on Exams
by Andrew Ryvkin at Air Mail: Pavel Durov, the Russian enfant terrible who created Telegram, the notorious messaging app, is not easily pegged. French authorities arrested him last week, claiming
Saturday Poem: Tree Man
A big bush called to a tree man: Hey tree,what are you doing up there? Are you justdoing a dance move? Are you just doing theABCs, like the letters? I don’t
A “42 Billion Dollar Begging Industry!”
by Syed Muzammil on YouTube: The huge begging network in Pakistan –claimed to be worth about $42 billion annually, prospers despite anti-begging laws amid absence of ‘rule of law’. Some
Some Brains Develop Alzheimer’s—Others Don’t. A New Cell Map Could Explain Why.
by Shelly Fan at Singularity Hub: Alzheimer’s disease slowly takes over the mind. Long before symptoms occur, brain cells are gradually losing their function. Eventually they wither away, eroding brain
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James Carville On Trump, Harris, Clinton
Andrew Sullivan at The Weekly Dish: Carville needs no introduction, but he’s a legendary consultant, a former CNN contributor, and the author of a dozen books. He currently co-hosts the Politics
How Folktales Unsettle Us Into Thinking Anew
by Abigail Tulenko in Aeon Magazine: The Hungarian folktale Pretty Maid Ibronka terrified and tantalised me as a child. In the story, the young Ibronka must tie herself to the
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The Death of our Era by D.H. Lawrence
Our era is dyingyet who has killed it?Have we, who are it? In the middle of voluted spaceits knell has struck.And in the middle of every atom, which is the
The Challenge of Interviewing Kamala Harris
Jess Bidgood in the NY Times Newsletter: Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, will sit down with Dana Bash of CNN tomorrow at