cptsdawayout.com
Part two: Low Cortisol levels linked to PTSD
2 min read · Jun 17th · ttsz / Getty Images . This is groundbreaking. Low cortisol levels have never been linked to PTSD before. This explains why we behave as we do. . . “A shape was emerging that connected childhood adv…
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Literary Hub
How did alphabet books tackle the letter ‘x’ before x-rays and xylophones?
1 min read · Jun 13th · The most common entries for ‘x’ in alphabet books nowadays are probably ‘x-ray’ and ‘xylophone’—based on anecdotal evidence only, someone do this research please…
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Tablet Magazine
The Great Debasement
~16 min read · May 26th · The institutions tasked with the preservation of art are reducing great works to moralizing message-delivery systems
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literarymatters.org
Impotence and Overripe Grapes: Cultural Decadence in T. S. Eliot’s Early Poetry
20+ min read · Jun 1st · A wartime exile in his own country, Czesław Miłosz translated The Waste Land against “the glow from the burning ghetto.” This, for the Polish poet, made for “weird reading”: T. S. Eliot’s eulogy for…
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rogersbacon.substack.com
Nomen est omen
~15 min read · May 20th · On nominative determinism and the power of names
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Art in the Stacks: Dewey-inspired artwork
1 min read · May 16th · Back in February 2020, I visited a library in the northwest suburbs of Minneapolis to see their Dewey-inspired art, and I'm finally taking a moment to share what I saw! The Anoka County Library has…
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ndpr.nd.edu
Naming and Indexicality
~11 min read · May 16th · In 2022, five decades will have passed since the first publication of Saul Kripke’s Naming and Necessity and the beginning of the referentialist r...
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tni.org
Coca leaf: Myths and Reality
~11 min read · May 14th · A beginner's guide to Coca05 August 2014PrimerSubscribe here to receive monthly news and updates about coca, cannabis, and many more. Contents: Related primers Human Rights and Drug Policy Fact Sheet:…
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beyondbelieve.de
Operation Plumbbob: How a manhole cover became the fastest object launched by Humans
May 13th · During Operation Plumbbob in 1957, a test called Pascal B launched a 900 kg manhole cover to space at 6 times the escape velocity of earth.
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Big Think
Nanofabricators: a "Star Trek" vision of the future
5 min read · Apr 27th · Nanofabricators could create the Star Trek version of the future. Though they are physically plausible, can they actually be created?
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Real Life
Hard to See — Real Life
~14 min read · May 9th · How trauma became synonymous with authenticity
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symboldictionary.net
symboldictionary.net
20+ min read · From 2019 · Holy Seal (Prosphora) In the Eastern and Greek Orthodox churches, this emblem, is called the “Holy Seal.” It consists of an equal armed cross and the abbreviation IC XC NIKA, which is Greek for “Jesus…
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anthonyetherin.wordpress.com
PDFs
4 min read · May 9th · My chapbooks THE UTU SONNETS and CELLAR are downloadable, in full, as free PDFs, as are my booklets QUARTETS and OTHERWORLD. The below leaflets may be downloaded for free. These leaflets feature si…
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BBC News Labs
Digital Paper Edit
1 min read · From 2020 · Experimental tool that allows producers to create 'rough cuts' of audio and video programmes, working from an automatically generated transcript.
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BBC News Labs
BBC News Labs
From 2019 · Driving Innovation In News
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