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Everyone looks to the stock market to figure out if we’re heading into a recession. Sure, it has some info—for example, the market right now would tell us we definitely are—but that’s not the only recession warning sign we should be on the lookout for. If you know where to train your eyes, you’ll realize recession indicators are all around us. For example, any of the following might be a red flashing light:

A philosopher reflects on their unexpected roommates

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At the dawn of microbiology, scientists glimpsed unseen worlds and stumbled into a philosophical purgatory

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The peerless animal wisdom of Robert Sapolsky

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Welcome to the Animal Issue

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Dear Educator,

As you are aware, your state legislature has mandated that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all publicly funded classrooms. Those funds are, of course, inadequate to equip and compensate you and your colleagues, thanks in part to your administration’s strategic investment of said funds in AI learning tools that empower you with the illusion of assistance with your unmanageably large class sizes. Happily, the cost of the Ten Commandments poster for your classroom will not be deducted from your paycheck as originally suggested by your state’s joint education committee; instead, please accept the enclosed complementary poster in token of our appreciation for your compulsory use of our learning management system.

Sincerely,
Algorithmic Syndicate of Heuristic Technologies Optimized for Radical Education Telemetric Hegemony (ASHTORETH)

Columbia reassured its Middle Eastern studies scholars behind the scenes — then, to appease Trump, threw them to the wolves.

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A comic about Hello Kitty

I’m watching birds at all hours now. I can see thirty, fifty birds a week, sometimes even more if I don’t put it all in my journal. All the animals come out in the morning: blue jays, warblers, northern cardinals, hawks, sparrows, ruddy ducks. Someday, a real rain will come down and refract the sun into a rainbow backdrop for idyllic wildlife photography.

I go all over. I watch birds in Central Park, Lookout Hill, the Vale of Cashmere, the Swan Boat Pond, the Ramble. Some people don’t count pigeons in their birding journals, but it don’t make no difference to me, don’t make no difference to me.

This park here is like an open sewer. You know, it’s full of filth and scum. Whoever becomes the Audubon Society president should just really clean it up, you know what I mean? I get headaches. My eyes start to burn from the muted colors of ground-bound animals. Raccoons, rats, possums, police horses. It’s like I think that the Audubon Society president should clean up this whole mess here. He should flush it down the fuckin’ toilet.

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Economist Yanis Varoufakis says we shouldn’t underestimate Trump – he has a plan to shock the global economy, force foreign countries to buy crypto-currency in return for a deal on tariffs, and ultimately pay down debt and keep the US dollar at the centre of the global financial system. But it’s a high risk strategy […]

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