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Stories from Around the World that Affect Us |
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The US tries to Sell Climate Denial to Europe
Trump sends fracking CEO to Europe to sell climate denial—and gas
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Israel attacks Hamas leadership in Qatar
ALJAZEERA (Human Rights)
Israel struck Qatar’s capital, Doha, on Tuesday, in missile attacks that it said were aimed at senior leaders of Hamas, including negotiators from the Palestinian group who have been engaged in talks on securing a ceasefire in Gaza. Qatar condemned the attack as a violation of international law and of its sovereignty, with multiple countries and blocs also lashing out at Israel.
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Two Million Evacuated from Pakistan Floods
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No One Will See Me Again Forever
Literature
A new development in the story of a refugee from Afghanistan. One of the essays I included in my 2020 book, BORDERLINE CITIZEN: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood, featured the story of an Afghan refugee I met with my daughter, Isabel, in Sydney, Australia. Like many such stories, it was troubling and confronting, compounded by a sense of helplessness, if not hopelessness on my part.
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Stories from Survivors of Jeffery Epstein's Crimes From Now On Podcast Human Rights |
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Meet Lisa Phillips. She is on a mission to hold predators accountable for their actions, empower survivors to move forward on their healing journey and prepare creatives starting their careers in the entertainment industry.
Lisa is also ready to talk. Throughout this first season, in each episode, Lisa will share her survivor story of Jeffery Epstein and his co-conspirators. |
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Quote of The Week
I hope I never live to see the day when I grow up.
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Top Stories from our favourite publications to stimulate your curious mind, |
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Women after new Taliban law
The daily English lessons that Shabana attends are the highlight of her day. Taking the bus in Kabul to the private course with her friends, chatting and laughing with them, learning something new for one hour each day - it’s a brief respite from the emptiness that has engulfed her life since the Taliban took over Afghanistan.
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The New Math of Quantum Cryptography
WIRED (Quantum Physics)
Several years ago, researchers found a radically new approach to encryption that lacks this potential weak spot. The approach exploits the peculiar features of quantum physics. But unlike earlier quantum encryption schemes, which only work for a few special tasks, the new approach can accomplish a much wider range of tasks. And it could work even if all the problems at the heart of ordinary “classical” cryptography turn out to be easily solvable.
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What 2020 Meant
During a joint session of Congress in March, President Trump declared: “Our country will be woke no longer.” The Trump administration has dismantled DEI across the federal government, pressured companies to do the same, slashed billions of dollars in university funding (ostensibly in response to antisemitism on campus, but also to impose political control and root out “critical race theory” and “gender ideology”), and kicked transgender soldiers out of the military. Administration officials have even justified the elimination of foreign aid on the basis that this aid sometimes goes toward what they regard as “woke” causes.
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The Aesthetic of Silence
Susan Sontag on Art as a Form of Spirituality and the Paradoxical Role of Silence in Creative Culture “The impulse to create begins — often terribly and fearfully — in a tunnel of silence,” Adrienne Rich asserted in her spectacular 1997 lecture Arts of the Possible. But it was exactly three decades earlier that another of humanity’s most incisive intellects made the finest — and timeliest today — case for the generative function of silence in a creative culture drowning in noise. |
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Fall Books
Unlike Town and Country—or Time or Oprah—I don’t pretend that the books I list below are “must-reads” or even the best books of the fall. I haven’t read most of them yet, so I don’t know how good (or bad) they might be. Some of them may turn out to be terrible. They are simply books that look interesting to me. . |
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How Ideas Are Communicated
SAMO BURJA (Literature/Communication)
This hierarchy is easiest to observe in writing. In substance, a white paper is just a PDF, which in turn is just a Microsoft Word document. Yet, we know we would treat the same writing differently depending on its format. This is true even if there was very little change in the aesthetics of the document. We’ve all been trained to have emotional responses to mere format in line with what these differences mean for the use and standing of documents in organizations such as companies and universities. |
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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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 The History of Earthquakes – The Most Valuable Concise Overview
The history of earthquakes is as vast and complex as the natural phenomenon itself. Spanning millions of years, these seismic events have shaped the Earth’s landscape, leaving the scientific community and the rest of the world in awe, fear and curiosity. |
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ALFIE GOES TO THAILAND - SERIES
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. The Series is a story of human challenge, manipulation, rejection, abuse, and a search for peace. |
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THE KENRIGHT CHRONICLES - SERIES
The Kenright Chronicles is a psychological thriller series. Jack Kenright, a young investment banker gets involved 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. |
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Three Barbara Vine Mysteries By Ruth Rendell
Three spellbinders from a New York Times–bestselling Edgar Award winner, "unequivocally the most brilliant mystery writer of our time" (Patricia Cornwell). This trio of Barbara Vine mysteries provides undisputable evidence that "no one surpasses Ruth Rendell when it comes to stories of obsession, instability, and malignant coincidence" (Stephen King).
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Revolutionary Brothers By Tom Chaffin
"Chaffin's well-told tale of two revolutions centers on the fascinating, sometimes intersecting careers of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette." —Peter S. Onuf, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller, Most Blessed of Patriarchs Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette shared a singularly extraordinary friendship, one involved in the making of two revolutions—and two nations. Jefferson first met Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state's governor, in fighting off the British. The charismatic Lafayette, hungry for glory, could not have seemed more different from Jefferson, the reserved statesman. But when Jefferson, a newly-appointed diplomat, moved to Paris three years later, speaking little French and in need of a partner, their friendship began in earnest.
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