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Kingspan was slammed as 'deeply entrenched and persistently dishonesty' in the Grenfell Inquiry but has been kept on in 'sustainable' investment portfolios

To the Editors: In his otherwise excellent essay on the “tragic flaw” in Shakespeare’s tragedies [“No Comfort,” NYR, June 6], Fintan O’Toole falls into the all too common trap of attributing this critical idea to Aristotle. But the words Aristotle uses, hamartia and hamartēma, often mistranslated as “flaw,” do not refer to a character’s psychology […]

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The Reform club claims to be politically neutral, yet, according to its website 'remains true to its founding principles. In this spirit, it continues to be a place for progressive thinking, social change and the championing of reform'

Extreme weather means 10-year-old Mogi must choose between the nomadic life on the Mongolian steppe and moving to the city

- by Aeon Video

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Neuroscientists are demystifying this in-between state, uncovering its role in memory processing and its creative potential

- by Célia Lacaux

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Without the neutrino, the Universe might be an empty void. But this inscrutable particle isn’t giving up its secrets easily

- by Corey S Powell

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Maura Finkelstein was terminated by Muhlenberg College for an Instagram repost.

The post Meet the First Tenured Professor to Be Fired for Pro-Palestine Speech appeared first on The Intercept.

James Duffy and James Sanders Understanding a payment’s journey around the globe can be difficult. As the operator of the UK’s high-value payment system (CHAPS), the Bank is all too familiar with this challenge. By leveraging the benefits of the newly introduced ISO 20022 standard for messaging, we have devised a new methodology to identify … Continue reading Payments without borders: using ISO 20022 to identify cross-border payments in CHAPS →

The inside story of how we uncovered smoking-gun audio exposing the secret roots of Project 2025.

This week, the Australian government (Labor) did the unthinkable. It approved three thermal coal mine expansions in NSW – the Environment Minister approved the expansion of the Whitehaven Coal mine until 2044, the Mount Pleasant mine until 2048 and the Ravensworth mine until 2032. For a government that claims to hold superior ‘green’ credentials to…

Penny Wong responds to Australia’s questions about Israel on SBS News, a US veteran speaks to his experience in Iraq 20 years ago, Israel media displays astonishing commentary, Francesca Albanese shares a must-watch documentary. The children of Gaza suffer beyond our belief and the president of Senegal speaks about the history  of Palestinian oppression at Continue reading »

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I know you don’t want to watch a whole Trump speech. It’s very, very hard. But he’s escalating and you should probably hear a little bit of it: There’s more of the same. He was all amped up this morning, obviously drank a six pack of diet coke already or Dr. Ronny gave him a little pick-me-up. He’s getting worse. Politico reports: Donald Trump was meeting privately in mid-September with one of his oldest friends, Steve Wynn, when the casino mogul and Republican mega-donor delivered the former president a blunt warning: You’re off message, and it isn’t helping. Trump had been distracted, in Wynn’s view. The former president at the time was promoting a conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants were eating people’s cats and dogs in Ohio, among other things. To drive home his point, Wynn showed Trump polling and suggested the former president would be better off focusing on policy issues where Republicans see his opponent, Kamala Harris, as vulnerable, according to two people briefed on the meeting and granted anonymity to describe it. The meeting underscored a key point of tension inside the Trump campaign.

“so-called sexual crimes…” This was out there. North Carolina Republicans made him their Lt. Governor because of it, not in spite of it. “Child-like Oppositional Disorder” describes so many people on the right. And yes, a fair number on the left as well, but fewer than there used to be.

The see-through amphibian goes big to protect its eggs.

The post This Tiny Frog Is Fierce appeared first on Nautilus.

Just say no Hello. My name is digby and I am a poll addict. I really wish I wasn’t because I’m not equipped to deal with commentary like that above from the person who runs 538. I am an ordinary person caught in the vortex of a close election and I may just end up losing my mind over it. Don’t go there if you value your sanity. Historian Rick Perlstein has a great column on polls today that you really should read. (And then go read some fiction or watch the game or do some phone banking. Anything but look at those damned polling averages.) W. Joseph Campbell’s Lost in a Gallup: Polling Failure in U.S. Presidential Elections demonstrates—for the first time, strangely enough, given the robust persuasiveness of its conclusions—that presidential polls are almost always wrong, consistently, in deeply patterned ways. Unusual for any historical narrative, the pattern is almost unchanged for a good hundred years. First, someone comes forth with some new means of measuring how people will vote for president, and gets it so right it feels like magic.

Unpopular Australian Opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has held a press conference today where he warned the Nation’s journalists to stop asking him questions over his nuclear plans, or he would punch them directly in the throat. ”Where do these journalists... Read More ›