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Check out some details on the musical number in Doctor Who Showrunner Russell T. Davies' "Space Babies" script that didn't make the cut.
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by King Jamal (@jamalhinton12) Many of you have probably already heard this story. It’s apparently a huge viral social media sensation that’s been out there for 8 years. I had never heard it. (Where have I been?) Wanda Dench, aka “Thanksgiving Grandma,” and her unlikely friend, Jamal Hinton, have simple words of advice for Americans this year — Spend the holiday with family. The Arizona residents have shared Thanksgiving together every year since a Nov. 2016 text meant for Dench’s grandson was instead received by a then 17-year-old Hinton. Their friendship has become as much a staple of the holiday as cranberry sauce and football, and their life journeys have in some ways become emblematic of the country’s course. The 67-year-old Dench lost her husband early in the pandemic and is now in between cancer treatments. “You really never know when (will be) the last time you have a dinner with someone, or be able to talk to someone,” Hinton said in an interview with The Arizona Republic while recalling a recent conversation with Dench.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Julian Assange may no longer be behind bars, but his conviction casts a shadow over press freedom and the safety of journalists everywhere—a wrong Assange and his supporters world-wide are determined to set right by overturning his wrongful conviction via a presidential pardon from Joe Biden. In a remarkable bipartisan effort this month, Republican Congressman Continue reading »
On a train! All for a dollar. I’m going to hold my breath until it runs blue if Donald Trump doesn’t make prices go down to that. That’s how it works, right? Here’s another one from the Plaza Hotel in 1899: Thos numbers on there are for cents not dollars. Lol.
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People meditate because they want something from it. Most serious meditators I know, the people who made real progress, were miserable. The two main benefits from meditation might be classified as “capacity” or “exercise” and “insight.”
When I was younger, I could run 10 miles in 50 minutes and not be exhausted afterwards. I can’t do that now because I don’t run regularly.
Some benefits from meditation are like this. Concentration meditation, where you hold your attention on something like your breath or a mantra, or the spot between your brows or a candle is “mind exercise.” The more you do it, with proper technique, the better you get. If you stop doing it you lose the benefits: being more relaxed, more able to focus on anything and more able to ignore stuff like pain and anxiety.
The last Government passed shabbily-drafted pieces of legislation which were only saved by amendments from Labour and the House of Lords, according to two senior Conservative figures
Economists have sometimes misled us with their belief that it is their job to tell “white lies” to scare the population into “behaving themselves.” We think that is the wrong approach. This book trusts you, the reader, with that truth. We trust you to do what you can to spread the truth and to hold […]
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Q: A caller just said she forgot to baste every 10 minutes. I advised her to serve the turkey anyway. Was I correct?
A: Not at all. The turkey is merely the vehicle for the basting. In a recent poll, nine out of ten people would rather sit down at the table and suck on the end of a baster full of buttery juices than gnaw at some dry old wing. Bad call.
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Q: I just overheard my coworker advising a home cook to truss the bird. I arrived late at the “Talk Turkey” seminar last week and missed the trussing segment. Can you advise?
Benjamin Crampton, Rupert-Hu Gilman and Rebecca Mari. With climate change set to increase the frequency and intensity of flooding in the UK, it is important to deepen our understanding of the potential microeconomic impacts that may propagate into the macroeconomy. We integrate firm-level corporate records, with Ordnance Survey business-premise address information and publicly available flood … Continue reading Staying afloat: the impact of flooding on UK firms
Earlier this month, the Israeli Knesset identified a ‘systemic pattern of action’ in Ofer Cassif. The Jewish parliamentarian, who has represented the communist-led coalition Hadash as an MK since 2019, was investigated by the ‘ethics committee’ over his support for South Africa’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) case against the Israeli government, and for referring […]
Here is what Democrats could actually achieve in the months before Trump takes office.
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After 250 years of armed attacks, forced relocations, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of Native Americans, the U.S. military wants to celebrate.
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COP29 was far from the dramatic turning point in the fight against catastrophic climate change that the world needs
A damning new report accuses the City regulator of getting too close to the very sector it was set up to protect consumers from
My colleagues and I at Kyoto University met the night before I flew back to Australia this year to discuss the on-going research collaboration, which will define part of my work over the next few years. I hope we can announce a major event in Kyoto or Tokyo in October or November 2025 to disseminate…