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CURIOUSMINDS
A weekly serving of great articles we curate, and original content we produce. So, all you have to do is pick, read, watch and listen. |
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Top News Stories from Around the World |
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From Pontiff To Third Term? The image posted to Elon Musk’s Goebbelsian fever dream social media platform, “X,” depicts the President as the supreme pontiff. Of course, predictably, this causes outrage among Catholics, bishops, and MSNBC goes into apoplectic meltdown mode. Conservative media chortling, no doubt, about “owning the libs.” Everyone remains shocked that gambling is going on in the casino, but this event deserves more than outrage. It is another sign of a severe breakdown of domestic and international systems.
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How did India and Pakistan get into war again?HUMAN RIGHTS
Each side accuses the other of fueling violence and supporting militant groups, while the international community has urged restraint to avoid further escalation between these nuclear-armed neighbours
India and Pakistan entered into a new cycle of conflict in early May 2025 following a deadly militant attack in Pahalgam, Indian-administered Kashmir, on April 22, which killed 26 civilians. |
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US accepts Afrikaner refugees from South Africa HUMAN RIGHTS/POLITICS
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The culture war nobody's talking about.
We usually talk about “enshittification” in terms of user experience. The slow death of platforms as they prioritize quarterly returns over anything resembling public service. Instagram throttles organic reach. Amazon feels like walking through a strip mall designed by a casino. Google Search is so bloated with ads it barely functions as search anymore. Facebook is a rage machine. TikTok is a dopamine slot machine, curated by opaque algorithms. Image created by Ideogram
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The “Tipping Point” Has Been Misunderstood |
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Malcolm Gladwell (author, Revenge of the Tipping Point) joins Chris Cuomo for an in-depth conversation on the role of critical thinking in navigating today’s complex world. Gladwell discusses how the concept of the “tipping point,” which he popularised, has been misunderstood and misused in public discourse, and reflects on how the COVID pandemic has reshaped our approach to decision-making. Together, they examine the growing challenges of political polarization, the spread of misinformation, and why cultivating curiosity and skepticism is more important than ever in an age where quick judgments and surface-level solutions dominate.
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 QuoteHaving the good grace to accept responsibility makes you whole and gives you freedom of choice. - James King -
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Top Stories from our favourite publications to stimulate your curious mind, |
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Content Theft
THE WRITING LONG GAME By Tom Kuegler
In 2019, I watched someone I greatly respected blatantly steal from me. They took a video I made for Facebook—which got 2,000,000 views—downloaded it, and reposted it natively on their LinkedIn profile. They tagged me, of course, to wash their hands of blame.. But it was deeply, deeply dirty. “Why Tom? He was doing you a favor!”
Aww! He was doing me a favor?
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Chance, Choice, and How to Claim Your Life THE MARGINALIAN ***
Only a fool or an egomaniac would deny that chance shapes the vast majority of life. The time, place, culture, family, body, brain, and biochemistry we are born into, the people who cross our path, the accidents that befall us — these dwarf in consequence the sum total of our choices. Still, our choices are the points of light that flicker against the opaque immensity of chance to illuminate our lives with meaning, just as stars, all the billions of them, comprise a mere 0.4% percent of a universe made mostly of dark energy and dark matter, and yet those same sparse stars made everything we know and are.
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A New American Awakening
AFTER BABEL ***
We believe the erosion of social capital throughout the 1970s and 1980s can explain why Americans took away the play-based childhood in the 1990s. When Americans lost trust in each other, they stopped letting their children roam around without direct adult supervision. But when Zach met with Putnam, the conversation was not primarily about the destruction of social capital. Instead, Putnam talked about renewal—about how deeply polarized and fragmented societies have...
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The Art Newsletter
What’s Happening in The Arts
The Art Newsletter is a free weekly publication celebrating creativity across contemporary art, music, film, and more. Delivered every Thursday, it’s crafted for Gen Z creatives and art lovers seeking fresh perspectives. |
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James King Blog offers valuable resources for students of Arts and Humanities. Particularly those interested in Environments, Literature, Performing Arts, Visual Art, Philosophy, Travel, and Human Rights. The articles provide insights into complex interactions between humans and their environments, and the ethical and moral dimensions of environmental issues. The Blog is relevant to students of all ages and those who are just fascinated by the Arts and Humanities. |
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What is Environment Protection and its Importance to the World |
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What Is Environmental Sustainability – And Why Is It Important?Environmental sustainability refers to the use of every resource wisely to meet present needs, while preserving the survival of future generations. So, what is environmental sustainability? Its essence is the art of balancing our human needs with the health of the planet we call home. |
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Greta Thunberg’s impassioned speeches at the United Nations moved millions to act. She was a schoolgirl when she became most famous for inspiring youth activism. And she raised adult awareness of the urgency to act on climate change. She sparked a global movement that made governments act. |
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SERIES 1 - ALFIE GOES TO THAILAND
If you like thought-provoking drama, romantic tragedies, and damaged characters, then you’ll love the tropical sauna and wry humour of POST- IT NOTES and the other books in this Psychological Thriller series. Starved of love and affection for far too long, it was now coming at Alfie from all sides. When you are led to the well after a long drought, the temptation to drink the well dry is powerful. Alfie's adventures hot up, as a conniving Mother and her wicked daughters, plot his downfall. The dangers are exacerbated by crooked builders, and rogue property traders, exposing him to a hair-raising ride through Thailand. There are shades of David Copperfield just when he thinks he's landed safely... The Series is a story of human challenge, manipulation, rejection, abuse, and a search for peace. |
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SERIES 2 - THE KENRIGHT CHRONICLES
The Kenright Chronicles is a literary psychological thriller series, set in England, The Mediterranean, South Africa and Cambodia. Jack Kenright, a young investment banker in the City of London gets mixed up in an international art swindle. which cripples his business and threatens his life and his family. He ends up a recluse, working for the FBI undercover and exposes massive corruption in the gambling world, perpetrated by the Russian Mafia in Africa. If I tell you any more you won't want to read it. Fans of Paula Hawkins and Karin Slaughter will enjoy this psychological thriller series. |
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VACATION INTERRUPTEDBy Allison Brennan
Attempted murder interrupts vacation for an FBI agent and a P.I. in this romantic suspense short story by a New York Times–bestselling author.
Protagonists Lucy Kincaid and Sean Rogan learn that taking an island vacation isn’t so relaxing—especially when solving crimes is your occupation. Rescuing a drowning man on his honeymoon turns out to be the easy task.
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MONTEZUMA STRIPBy Alan Dean Foster
Detective Angel Cardenas polices the crime-ridden US-Mexico borderlands in five futuristic stories from the New York Times–bestselling author.
A century in the future, greed flourishes on the Montezuma Strip, a string of high-tech that follows the old and frayed USA-Mexico border stretching from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico. First World technology meets Third World cheap labor, while both the rich and the poor fall into the widening chasm between them. In five stories set among the chaos, Tex-Mex cop Angel Cardenas puts his intuit ability to good use as a living lie-detector.
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Substack - Creative Xellence -
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Medium
We curate high value informative articles related to A&H from major publishers and authoratative sources. And we publish a smattering of selected articles from James King Blog and articles written by James King for Medium Publications.
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