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1. Flowers. Just a shit ton of flowers. Preferably exotic-looking ones like orchids, not pedestrian flowers like daisies—that would be confusing.

2. Chopsticks displayed in an artful (and respectful) way. Rice isn’t necessary, but it doesn’t hurt. Mind you, this works even when the book has absolutely nothing to do with food. Like, food doesn’t appear once in the book.

3. Tigers. Ditto the above—tigers don’t actually need to be referenced in the book. There’s just something about tigers that screams “East Asian,” you know? Depending on the book’s content, you can substitute tigers with cranes and/or koi fish.

4. Landscape of a rice paddy field or a tea estate. This works well for historical fiction—it recalls a nostalgic “colonial” mood that our readers enjoy. Obviously, the only appropriate font for this kind of cover is Papyrus.

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Josiah Mortimer talks to a leading lawyer who took part in the 2003 ricin trials on the terror cell that never was

Paul Vallas has raked in $1.6 million from executives at financial firms that could be hit by his progressive opponent’s proposed tax on speculative trades.

Before obtaining the required permits, Diversified Energy began installing cryptocurrency mining infrastructure on one of its thousands of well pads.

A potential visit with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen "seriously violates the One China principle, harms China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and destroys peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait," said one official.

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Summer School on “Modern Monetary Policy and European Macroeconomics” (Maastricht, July/August 2023) 31 July – 4 August, 2023 | University of Maastricht, Netherlands Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics This course provides an introduction to Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). During the course, students will examine the balance sheets and transactions that are relevant for understanding […]

By Lucas Berenbrok, Janice L. Pringle and Joni Carroll / The Conversation On March 29, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Narcan for over-the-counter sale. Narcan is the 4-milligram nasal spray version of naloxone, a medication that can quickly counteract an opioid overdose. The FDA’s greenlighting of over-the-counter naloxone means that it will be available for […]

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The Ukrainian leader told AP his country will lose without US support.

The post Zelensky Says if He Loses Bakhmut, He Will Be Pushed To ‘Compromise’ With Russia appeared first on scheerpost.com.

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Energy Information Agency of the US Department of Energy announced this week that for the first time in US history, renewable sources generated more electricity in 2022 than did coal. Renewables also outstripped nuclear power generation, for the second year in a row. In fact, […]

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By Jenny Brown / Labor Notes Starbucks projects the image of an employee-friendly company, but its workers have been exposing the contradiction between the company’s words and its actions. On March 29, they’ll get some help from the U.S. Senate’s HELP Committee, chaired by Bernie Sanders. The Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee has called […]

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Carl Sagan explains how, with just ‘sticks, eyes, feet and brains’, an ancient Greek polymath first calculated Earth’s size

- by Aeon Video

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This ancient practice, nurturing animals and trees in an ecological system, fights climate change and restores the land

- by Liz Carlisle & Niki Mazaroli

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Anna Paulson, director of research at the Chicago Fed, talks about the collaborative nature of economic research at the Federal Reserve.

The bank panic is proving to be an exercise in class warfare that may well wind up further strengthening the right.

Biden pushes for an assault weapons ban.

About that militia.

A nice protective blanket of TV.

I regularly encounter mainstream economists who are confounded by the dissonance that the body of theory they have been working in introduces and then seem to think they have come up with new ideas that restores their credibility. The more extreme version of this tendency is called plagiarism in academic circles. But the less extreme…

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I want the fossil fuel industry to stop breaking the law and pay for their crimes against people and the planet. read now...

China’s support (along with India and various other nations) makes it impossible to take out Russia with sanctions, just as Russia’s support makes it impossible to take out China with sanctions or blockade.

The fundamental issue here is the West still thinks it’s 2000 — that China isn’t the major industrial power & that Russia isn’t a fuel, mineral and food exporter. The West isn’t /needed/. For a long time you could only get things you had to have from the West.