I met Anas during an Israeli siege of a hospital. He grew to be my mentor — and my friend.
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Plastic pollution is costing the world $1.5 trillion a year in health-related losses
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It takes more than good chemistry
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When a lot of people talk about Rome, they’re thinking of the Empire and when they write about Rome, they’re writing about the decline and fall. But I’ve always been more interested in creation of new things and how they ran when they were running well. To be sure, knowing how a system eventually failed […]
It’s not the first time we and others at Religion Dispatches have had to point...
During the Pilot TV podcast, Russell T. Davies updated fans on where things stand with Doctor Who and The War Between the Land and the Sea.
“The ability to use the military anywhere, anytime, for any purpose — it’s absolutely unprecedented.”
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“President Donald Trump said on Monday he was deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington and temporarily taking over the city’s police department, an extraordinary assertion of presidential power in the nation’s capital.” —Reuters
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A tourist standing to the left on a Metro Center escalator
The line at Call Your Mother on a Sunday morning
The price of one beer at Nats Park
Someone eating a granola bar on the metro
A Virginia driver trying to navigate Chevy Chase Circle
Steak ’n Egg closing
A tourist pronouncing it “DuPONT”
Seeing a movie where a character takes the metro to Georgetown
Overhearing someone say they were flying out of “Reagan”
Illegal immigrants everywhere (spotted lantern flies)
The humidity in August
Realizing the zoo is about to close, but you are all the way at Amazonia with two children and a stroller, and you took the metro here
Retired colonel Chris Romberg says the Government is criminalising peaceful dissent after being arrested under anti-terror laws at Palestine Action demonstration
Unbalanced coverage of migration is twisting the public's perspective, argues Christian Christensen
In today’s brave new world of fascism rebranded, white nationalism is trading in brown shirts...
To make poems rhyme can sometimes be toughas words can seem to be from the same bough,yet each line’s ending sounds different, though,best covered up with a hiccough or cough. Was this upsetting to Byron or Yeats?Dickinson, Wordsworth, Larkin or Keats?Did they see these words as auditory threats?Could they write their lines without caveats? What…
Alex Kingston has joined the new season of Strictly Come Dancing (think of it as River Song appearing on the show as a Doctor Who tie-in).
“President Trump announced that he’s placing the DC Metropolitan Police Department under federal control and deploying National Guard troops to the nation’s capital.” —CNN
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The family and I visited Colonial Williamsburg just last summer. We had a great time. My wife and son loved the basket-weaving workshop, and my daughter was so excited by the reenactors that she barely let them answer a question before peppering them with another one.
The digital landscape continues to evolve, and artificial intelligence is now a present reality. The Drupal Association is excited to announce a focused approach to AI development within the Drupal ecosystem: the Drupal AI Initiative.
To ensure Drupal AI delivers a significant and strategic impact, we must move beyond traditional volunteer-based contribution models. We need a coordinated, highly dedicated effort to make sure we don’t miss the connection with the market. To build a powerful and competitive AI ecosystem for Drupal aligned with the community’s values, we need a professional team focused exclusively on this task.
Why is this needed?
We are accelerating Drupal AI innovation: Strategic initiatives like the Drupal AI initiative require consistent, dedicated effort that often exceeds the capacity of volunteer contributors.
UBS Global Wealth Report 2025 reveals that Sweden — once a global beacon of equality — has now fallen to the far less enviable position of sixth place among the world’s most unequal countries in terms of wealth. How could things have gone so wrong for a country that, not so long ago, was seen […]
As regulators crack down on noncompete agreements, employers are turning to TRAP contracts to lock workers into their jobs.
On July 26 Donald Trump played a round of golf at his own Turnberry course in Scotland. Over footage of the event from Sky News, we hear a reporter shouting, “Mr. Trump, can you escape the Jeffrey Epstein crisis?” At that point in the clip, the volume surges on the song Trump’s large entourage is […]
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Two decades of anorexia obscured who I was beneath my sickness. Then a stranger saw me
- by Miranda Gold
- by Cathy Mason
An early peep for this year’s peak
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Unlike most spiders, they lack venom-filled fangs
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The number of people in the UK without work that want it
The great difficulty in the social sciences (if we may presume to call them so) of applying scientific method, is that we have not yet established an agreed standard for the disproof of an hypothesis. Without the possibility of controlled experiment, we have to rely on interpretation of evidence, and interpretation involves judgement; we can […]