The calls of our closest living evolutionary cousins still hit an ancient target in the human brain
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Yet another peril of a teeming low Earth orbit
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Pond frogs nonchalantly dined on the venomous insects, hinting at special mechanisms that help the amphibians avoid pain—and grisly deaths
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Season’s Greetings from the Mortons!
We know many of you look forward to opening your mailbox each December to receive the Morton annual Christmas card and extensive family newsletter. It brings us no good tidings to let you know that we’ve made the difficult decision to paywall it.
As the years have gone by, the letter has grown in scope. When we sent the first Christmas newsletter, we were just a two-person operation in a small home in Middlebury. Now we have to cover nine busy family members across four states. And sometimes Jessica has a boyfriend. It’s a big operation, and Clare had to learn Microsoft XL or whatever it’s called.
Everybody on our list will receive the Morton Christmas Card featuring a candid photo of us down by the lake, wearing matching outfits. And while we love everyone who receives our card, those who subscribe and support our family’s essential end-of-year work will get even more of our love.
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Test your knowledge of extrajudicial kill lists, free-range parenting, and other issues that really matter.
I spent a good chunk of the afternoon watching l’Etabli, the film of Robert Linhart’s book (which I own but have never read). It is an arresting depiction of the brutality of the assembly-line and the racalialised hierarchies at work in the factory. The theme of the film is of a Maoist cadre from an […]
Array of camera traps captures surprising images of tigers in the wild
The post Selfies of Endangered Sumatran Tigers Expose a Robust Population appeared first on Nautilus.
Journalist Ahmed Kaballo joins Mnar Adley to examine Sudan’s civil war, UAE’s gold operations, US pressure in Africa, and the rise of the anti-imperialist alliances shaping the continent.
The post Sudan’s War, UAE Gold Networks, and the Rise of Anti-Imperialist Alliances appeared first on MintPress News.
The Epstein files expose how racial hierarchy, genetic “optimisation” and even climate-driven population culling circulated inside Big Tech circles
Lars Calmfors har på uppdrag av stiftelsen Fritt Näringsliv lett en utredning om huruvida Sverige borde ansluta sig till euron. I en debattartikel i Dagens industri framför han sina egna argument för ett medlemskap. Hans starkaste argument är att en anslutning till euron skulle öka svensk utrikeshandel med 5–7,5 procent. Det är möjligt att siffran […]
Nästa onsdag delas Nobelprisen ut vid den årliga prisceremonin i Stockholm. I veckans avsnitt av Starta pressarna diskuterar yours truly tillsammans med Daniel Suhonen, Elisabeth Lindberg och Max Jerneck vad för slags teorier årets ‘Nobelpris’ i ekonomi har premierat. Vi försöker också — med utgångspunkt bland annat från Isabella Webers teori om ‘seller’s inflation’ — […]
Roughly speaking there are two types of corporations in China. State owned (SOE) and private. During the policy driven real-estate bust, the countries biggest builder, Evergrande, went under. But there was an assumption that the government would bail out real-estate SOEs. Well the largest one, Vanke, is going under, and the central government is going […]
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A few pieces of creative advice shared by Debbie Harry:
- You can’t please everyone all the time
- You can never make a big enough fool of yourself
- Use the perspective you’ve earned
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As my plans to interview Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie for The Believer first took shape, billboards sprang up, as if on cue, around Manhattan. Sprawled several stories high was Harry’s image, framed in a moody fashion-house ad. A glance up from the sidewalk suddenly felt freighted with the vastness of Blondie’s legend: the art and fashion iconography; the timeless hit songs; and the band’s enduring influence on countless artists, among them No Doubt, Garbage, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Paramore.
The BBC released a new minisode for Doctor Who, featuring the Fifth Doctor and Tegan, to herald the release of a new Blu-ray box set.
Contrary to the beliefs of some in the anti-vaxx world, infectious diseases spread through bacteria...
Arriving at Your Party’s founding conference in Liverpool last Saturday, the atmosphere was tense. While Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana both insisted that this would be the weekend that put an end to the factional strife that has so far defined the new party, the word on the lips of delegates was ‘witch-hunt.’ With the […]
The Reform UK leader is being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to present shows on the channel
SYNOPSIS
High school is no picnic for anyone, but especially if you’re one of Shakespeare’s most iconic leading men. Hamlet might be the big man on campus, but that doesn’t mean he’s got it all figured out. This drama puts a much-needed spin on a classic by imagining a world where Hamlet is young and hot.
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HAMLET
Sexy football player type, but not just a football player, because we need him to be smart and sensitive too. Lacrosse team, maybe? We’ll come back to this.
Required skills: Smoldering glances, ability to look deep without creating forehead wrinkles.
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OPHELIA
Hamlet’s friend, who has an unrequited crush on Hamlet. It needs to be realistic that Hamlet wouldn’t want to date her, but legally, we can only cast hot people at CW, so we’re kind of in a bind. Maybe she’ll wear glasses? Also, obviously, we’re putting her on the swim team because of foreshadowing.
It was striking that the most impressive recent speech on Britain's future in Europe came not from our current Prime Minister, but from one of his Conservative predecessors, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
How does memory transform far away from home? A Sudanese artist uses a surreal lens to capture his longing and nostalgia
- Video by Art21
Malcolm Gladwell and Liliana Segura unpack how the death penalty is administered in America.
The post Lethal Illusion: Understanding the Death Penalty Apparatus appeared first on The Intercept.
Some saw the Moon as representing creation, yearning for the Divine, some saw the Moon as almost Divine herself
- by Ayoush Lazikani
Contrary to classic habit science, certain behaviours never become easy. Recognising this can help you stick with them
- by Blair Saunders & Kimberly R More
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist