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Do not obey in advance. Lesson 1, first page, of my pamphlet "On Tyranny"
I last saw Maggie Smith in A German Life at the Bridge in 2019. She was absolutely magnificent!
85 years ago, Hitler and Stalin signed an agreement to launch a joint attack on Europe. A few days later, they began by attacking Poland - first Germany from the West, then Stalin from the East. Germans have fully acknowledged their responsibility for starting the war. The…
In Russia, they often highlight the USSR's victory in 1945 but ignore how Hitler and Stalin jointly started the war in 1939. On this day in 1939, Nazi Germany and the USSR signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, secretly dividing Central and Eastern Europe between them.
“[…] there is enough liquid water on Mars to form a layer across the surface that would be more than half a mile deep.” Reservoir of liquid water found deep in Martian rocks bbc.com/news/articles/…
Sequana riding the Seine river on a mechanical horse was beautiful
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#Voyager1's interstellar comeback is like music to our ears! For the first time since Nov. 2023 @NASA's most distant spacecraft is returning data from all four of its science instruments again — all from beyond the heliosphere out in interstellar space: go.nasa.gov/3VmvlyA
Not victim blaming but something good has to come out of all this sorrow. Every single Mediterranean person knows that in the summer, between 12pm and 3pm, no one goes out in the midday sun unless absolutely necessary. Holidaymakers should be made aware. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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US tourist found dead on Greek island of Mathraki
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We mourn the passing of astronaut Bill Anders, lunar module pilot for Apollo 8, and backup pilot for the Gemini XI and Apollo 11 flights. One of the first three people to travel beyond the reach of our Earth and orbit the Moon, Anders took the legendary Earthrise photo. More on…
A beautiful meditation on animals, mortality, loss, and life. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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What My Dog Taught Me About Mortality (Published 2024)
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The importance of the stories we tell ourselves. edition.cnn.com/2024/05/12/us/…
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‘Civil War’ sends a message that’s more dangerous than the violence it depicts onscreen | CNN
“Civil War,” the new dystopian film about an alternate United States wracked by warfare between armed factions and an authoritarian government, has been a box-office hit. The film reinforces a...
“Experts say there is a thriving market for [19th century books] today in Russia, where they have tremendous cultural and patriotic value. French authorities have not ruled out a state-sanctioned drive to bring Russian treasures home to Russia.” nytimes.com/2024/05/01/boo…
Watch Juno zoom past Jupiter. NASA's robotic spacecraft Juno is continuing on its now month-long, highly-elongated orbits around our Solar System's largest planet. The featured video is from perijove 16, the sixteenth time that Juno passed near Jupiter since it arrived in…
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"In the family tree of professions, submarine cable work occupies a lonely branch somewhere between heavy construction and neurosurgery. [...] a function vital to a world that, if they do their jobs well, will continue to be unaware of their service." theverge.com/c/24070570/int…
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Spoiler: Nothing's left. This is the horror and devastation that Russia's army brings wherever it goes. Add Robotyne to the growing list of Ukrainian cities, towns and villages that have been wiped from the map by Russian bombs.
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I am sad to learn that the great Frans de Waal has died. He was a compassionate primatologist, a truly wonderful writer, and a thoroughly decent fellow. I bare my teeth and hoot in his honour.
“It’s a betrayal of the task of literature, which cannot end wars but can help us see why people wage them, oppose them, or become complicit in them.’
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