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The New Yorker
The Strangeness of Grief
The New Yorker
20+ min · · V. S. Naipaul reckons with the different forms of loss. · Shared by 110, including Anjan Sundaram, Rick Powell, Anita Leirfall, Tuur Demeester, Faik Ersoy, Jane, Timothy Lomauro
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The Guardian
Stop saying Biden is the 'most electable'. Trump will run rings round him
The Guardian
5 min · · Did we learn nothing from 2016? Trump is savagely effective at destroying establishment politicians – and Biden would lose · Shared by 19, including John Tasioulas, Rick Powell, Current Affairs, Jason Stanley
Have a dinner party for your Biden-supporting friends and family and explain a few things.
jonathanrosenbaum.net
In Defense of Non-Masterpieces
jonathanrosenbaum.net
16+ min · · From the April 17, 1998 Chicago Reader. — J.R. Eighteen Springs Rating ** Worth seeing Directed by Ann Hui Written by John Chan With Leon Lai, Wu Chien-lien, Anita Mui, Ge You, Annie Wu, and Huang… · Shared by 7, including Rick Powell
One of Jonathan Rosenbaum's key film texts.
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snopes.com
Fever Chart: Earth Had Its Hottest Decade on Record in 2010s
snopes.com
3 min · · The decade that just ended was by far the hottest ever measured on Earth, capped off by the second-warmest year on record · Shared by 6, including Rick Powell
How much warning do we need?
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youtube.com
A 97-Year-Old Philosopher Faces His Own Death
youtube.com
· Herbert Fingarette once argued that there was no reason to fear death. At 97, his own mortality began to haunt him, and he had to rethink everything. Read mo... · Shared by 12, including Dr. Alec Couros, Rick Powell, Constantine Sandis
It's more than just courage. It's humility.
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Aeon+Psyche
Consider the axolotl: our great hope of regeneration?
Aeon+Psyche
5 min · · Our smiling saviour: the axolotl can regrow a limb, a heart, a brain. Is this the great hope of regenerative medicine? · Shared by 16, including 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Rick Powell
Phantom limbs phantom no more.
vqronline.org
The Ladder Up
vqronline.org
20+ min · · I’ve wanted to evade geographic determinism, but we’re still on another island: all of you and all of us.– Manuel Ramos OteroFor many years, my Puerto Rican homeland was not the island but the fried… · Shared by 17, including Rick Powell, Howard Getson
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Aeon+Psyche
Dadaism ridiculed the meaninglessness of modern life
Aeon+Psyche
2 min · · Dadaism was an avant-garde artistic movement born amid the wreckage of the First World War in Europe and formed in reaction to the perceived meaninglessness of modern life – in particular, of… · Shared by 43, including Brad Brooks, Anita Leirfall, Rick Powell, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire
Art attack!
09
Aeon+Psyche
Beyond reason: the mathematical equation for unconditional love
Aeon+Psyche
11+ min · · Is it possible to love unconditionally, and if so, is it rational to do so? On the mathematics of love, with equations · Shared by 24, including Jason Silva, Rick Powell
10
The Intercept
The Pesticide Industry’s Playbook for Poisoning the Earth
The Intercept
20+ min · · Though neonicotinoids are banned in the EU, a sophisticated information war has kept these insecticides — toxic to bees and birds — on the U.S. market. · Shared by 89, including Deborah Blum, Jane, Liv 😷, Matthias Lampe, Rick Powell, Mark Bittman, Dominik Grolimund, Katja Evertz, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙
Great design for a great peril.