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There are several common lines of inquiry when someone learns you’re vegan. These scripted responses will spare everyone a tedious conversation and might even make you less annoying at dinner parties (but probably won’t).

Where do you get your protein?

From peanut butter, seitan, and the ten thousand french fries I eat every time I join my non-vegan friends out for dinner.

Would you break your veganism if you were stranded on a desert island and had to choose between eating animals and starving to death?

No, I’d survive on a nutritious diet of moral self-righteousness. Okay, fine, and a single guppy that lived a full happy life and died of natural causes.

The delayed and limited Russian retaliation in the Kursk offensive has strengthened Kyiv’s argument that Putin’s “red lines” are mere scare tactics designed to deter Ukraine’s allies from supporting deeper strikes into Russian territory

Offering an escape from industrial foods, foraging nourishes the soul and body, but it needs democratic access to the land

- by Nikita Sud

Read at Aeon

Some individuals have a persistent tendency to want ever more stuff and status. Psychologists are examining the lives they lead

- by Karlijn Hoyer

Read at Psyche

Fifa president Gianni Infantino boasted that the World Cup would be carbon neutral - here's what really happened after the final whistle

The inquiry has dismissed the increasing body of concern around the legitimacy of the verdicts as "noise". It is anything but

When no formal theory is available, as is often the case, then the analyst needs to justify statistical specifications by showing that they fit the data. That means more than just “running things.” It means careful graphical and crosstabular analysis … When I present this argument … one or more scholars say, “But shouldn’t I […]

Last weeks pagers exploded all over Lebanon. They were pagers bought by Hezbolah, but most of them were not used by military personnel or even by Hezbollah members, though many were.

The attacks were set up to be particularly nasty. Small ball bearings were embedded in the pagers. First the pager would buzz. The person would grab it, bring it up to their face so they could look at the screen, where they would see an error message.

Then the pager would explode. The most common injuries were maiming (the hand), terrible facial wounds, and eye-injuries. I don’t know what percentage caused permanent vision loss but I saw one interview with a surgeon who said he’d removed more eyes in the last day than he had in a career of over twenty years.

Civilians, women and children were hurt.

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In case you were wondering how The Great Businessman is doing: It would appear that now that the lock out period is over, Trump or other big stock holders are dumping stock. Too bad about the suckers and losers.

A conversation between Maya Gabeira and Lorenzo Bertelli.

The post The Surfer and the Businessman appeared first on Nautilus.

The story of the doom-bringing rock may help us prevent a repeat catastrophe.

The post The Origin of the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs appeared first on Nautilus.

Richard Powers on his 3 greatest revelations while writing his latest novel, Playground.

The post Our Magnificent Ocean appeared first on Nautilus.

Weapons used in earlier Israeli strikes into Lebanon that have killed civilians have been found to be U.S.-made.

The post Israel Bombed Lebanon Today, Killing Hundreds. The U.S. Is Sending More Bombs. appeared first on The Intercept.

by Nicole Brown* Dovie Coleman, considered one of the “founding mothers” of the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO), was affectionately known as the “human tornado”. Her boldness and highly effective organizing strategies demonstrated her strategic acumen and leadership centered on the issues affecting those impacted by the system of poverty in Chicago neighborhoods. Coleman was […]

Greg Stoker goes live to unpack Israel’s latest airstrikes in Lebanon, the propaganda fueling it, and what this means for Hezbollah.

The post Why Israel Can’t Win in Lebanon: Greg Stoker Explains appeared first on MintPress News.

Supporters and detractors of mining both recognise the rapid economic, social and political change that mining brings can completely transform societies, which is certainly so in Indonesia, where the research for my new book Undermining Resistance: The governance of participation by multinational mining corporations took place.

The post Undermining Resistance appeared first on Progress in Political Economy (PPE).

At least until Trump does JV Last reminisces about America’s halcyon days when winning the popular vote meant that you’d also win the electoral college, something we all took for granted until 2000 when we learned otherwise. (Ye, it happened once before in the 1870s but nobody gave it much of a thought after that.) He talks about all the variables, including the impact of late-breaking news about one side or the other,and how these variables have changed over the years and concludes: Unless Harris expands her lead over Trump to greater than a +5 margin on Election Day, we’re in coin-flip territory for the next 42 days. Yeah. This is one of the reasons I really wish the news media would be careful about how they frame the polling. Here’s the bad news we can definitely count on: Not being able to see over the electoral horizon is a problem because we know what Trump is going to do on Election Day: He’s going to claim victory. His voters will believe him, and this in turn will cause Republican elites to support his claims, irrespective of evidence.