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Through mindful eating and a shift in mindset, you can alleviate unwarranted negative feelings and embrace the joy of food

- by Vivienne Lewis

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For Emil Cioran, ‘true contact’ with another is the deep intimacy that emerges through mute togetherness

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“Even if they rebuild all of Syria, Yarmouk will remain destroyed,” said one Palestinian refugee.

The post Palestinian Refugees in Syria See Little Hope — Even After Assad appeared first on The Intercept.

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The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind

The post Finding Peter Putnam appeared first on Nautilus.

The answer is blowing in the (stellar) wind

The post How to Build a Planet from Dust appeared first on Nautilus.

On 14 August 2024, Nadeem Crowe, an emergency doctor at Royal Free Hospital in London, received an email while at work informing him, without explanation, that he had been suspended from duties. He was subsequently sent home. In the days that followed, it was revealed that the reason for the suspension was his sharing on […]

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The line between life and death has never been clear—and modern technology blurs it further

The post How To Tell If You’re Dead appeared first on Nautilus.

Five redemptive days at the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France

The post We Are the Ocean appeared first on Nautilus.

The nearly 5,000 soldiers in Los Angeles detained one man, briefly. Was that worth $134 million and a constitutional crisis?

The post Troops Deployed to LA Have Done Precisely One Thing, Pentagon Says appeared first on The Intercept.

A large pot sits in plain sight. There’s a frog in it.

Every day, Leader announces his plans to boil the frog. His campaign slogan was “BOIL THAT FROG.”

He has already made at least one run on the stove.

A man stirs the pot with a large stick. “It’s a metaphor,” he says.

The frog is sweating.

The frog is informed that this is due to a natural variation in temperature.

“He’s clearly boiling the frog,” say the other frogs.

All books about frogs have vanished from the library.

You ask the man with the stick about the purpose of the pot. “It’s a melting pot,” he says. “What are you melting?” you say. The man keeps stirring.

You ask about the frog. The man says something about the price of eggs.

A panel on TV debates the ethics of boiling the frog. The panel is composed of twelve herons and no frogs.

The Amphibian Conservation Organization is stripped of government grants. All funding is redirected to the new Department of Frog-Boiling.

The frog treads water. He’s reassured that the water is unfluoridated.

As Netanyahu drags the U.S. toward war with Iran, a rare bipartisan chorus in Congress is saying: not this time. Voters are even louder.

The post Israel’s War with Iran Isn’t America’s Fight—And Voters Know It appeared first on MintPress News.