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Stories from Around the World that Affect Us |
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Massive Earthquake off Russia CoastENVIRONMENTS
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Tariffs Hit Tech Manufacturing that Powered AsiaPOLITICS
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Witchcraft Murders Shake Indian Village HUMAN RIGHTS Three weeks after five members of a family in India were brutally killed and allegedly burned alive amid accusations of the practice of witchcraft, the survivors are still trying to come to terms with the tragedy. For Manisha Devi (name changed) of Tetgama village in Bihar state, the night of 6 July has been the darkest in her life. The incident in Bihar is not an isolated one. According to the National Crime Records Bureau, more than 2,500 people, mostly women, were killed in India on suspicion of witchcraft between 2000 and 2016. |
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Migration of an Entire Country
WIRED Environments
The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia. Image created by Ideogram
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The Good Fight Yascha Mounk Politics Etc |
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In this inaugural episode of The Good Fight’s panel format, Francis Fukuyama, Ivan Krastev, and Mona Charen join Yascha to make sense of the events of the last week of July. |
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Quote of The Week
If there’s something you really want to do, do it now before it’s too late.
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Top Stories from our favourite publications to stimulate your curious mind, |
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Newly Discovered ‘Infinity Galaxy’
A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other to form a larger structure. From Earth’s perspective, the junction of the disks resembles the number eight lying down, similar to the infinity symbol (∞).
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Knowledge Production
SAMO BURJA (Philosophy) ***
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The Art of Looking
THE MARGINALIAN (Literature)
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How Trump Killed Cancer Research
New cases of the disease were emerging about as often as before; deaths were ticking steadily lower; the US Food and Drug Administration was approving new treatments, if not quite as quickly as anyone wanted. Then, attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research.
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More stars online than in the sky
The Etymology Nerd (Literature) ***
At some point in the last century, we collectively began looking at more representations of stars than stars themselves. The representations have always been there—as early as 40,000 years ago, Paleolithic people were thought to leave sophisticated star charts on cave walls, and since then we’ve used them in our flags, emblems, and home decor alike—but most of these depictions were made at a time when the full Milky Way was completely visible to the average observer. Since the Industrial Revolution, however, more and more stars have been made invisible through light pollution, changing our relationship with “stars” as a concept.
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The Achievement Gap
AFTER BABEL (Education) ***
In The Anxious Generation and on this Substack, Jonathan Haidt and Zach Rausch (co-author on this post) argue that the early 2010s marked the beginning of a youth mental health crisis. But mental health wasn’t the only domain in decline. Around the same time, student achievement in the United States in math, reading, and science also began to fall, after decades of slow but steady improvement. Although school closings and other COVID responses accelerated these trends, the pandemic cannot explain why the declines began in the early to mid 2010s. |
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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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 Understanding Earth’s Lithosphere: The Amazing Tectonic Plates
A key concept associated with the Earth’s lithosphere is plate tectonics. The lithosphere is divided into major and minor tectonic plates, which move and interact with each other. The dynamic process drives the formation of mountains, volcanoes, and earthquakes, thereby shaping the landscape. |
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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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A Small Death In Lisbon By Robert Wilson
Nazi wartime deals and the modern-day murder of a Portuguese teen are linked with originality and suspense in this award–winning crime novel. 1941. Klaus Felsen, forced out of his Berlin factory into the SS, arrives in a luminous Lisbon, where Nazis and Allies, refugees and entrepreneurs, dance to the strains of opportunism and despair. Felsen's assignment takes him to the bleak mountains of the north where a devious and brutal battle is being fought for an element vital to Hitler's bliztkrieg. There he meets the man who plants the first seed of greed and revenge that will grow into a thick vine in the landscape of post-war Portugal . . . |
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The DirectorBy David Ignatius
A New York Times Bestseller. "If you think cybercrime and potential worldwide banking meltdown is a fiction, read this sensational thriller."—Bob Woodward, Politico Graham Weber has been the director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he has a list of agents' names to prove it. This is the moment a CIA director most dreads. Like the new world of cyber-espionage from which it's drawn, The Director is a maze of double dealing, about a world where everything is written in zeroes and ones—and nothing can be trusted.
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