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The cave-dwelling olm is a canary in the coal mine for environmental change

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Effective CPR is hard when both patient and rescuer are floating

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Welcome to this tiny fifth-floor Airbnb, your home for the next four days in a major European city. Can you escape without incurring additional fees for cleaning or damage?

Let the games begin.

First, you must open this rusty lockbox containing the apartment keys. The numbers have worn off the keypad, and the latch sticks, so you may have to lightly smash it with a rock. However, if you damage the lockbox, you will be charged a 300 replacement fee.

Hear that ominous clunk? It means either that you are about to plummet to your death in this coffin-sized elevator or that it’s functioning normally.

In this bedroom are fourteen light switches. Ten of them do nothing. One turns on the television, which will blast Eurovision at top volume. One sounds an alarm in the home of your grouchy next-door neighbor who hates Americans and will let his French bulldog poop on your doorstep. One notifies the trash collectors on the street outside that you would like them to crush glass beneath your window. Only one activates the tiny IKEA lamp at your bedside. Can you choose the right one in time?

Today we are celebrating the release of the latest issue of our award-winning quarterly journal. To celebrate, subscriptions are $10 off, and we’ve asked our brilliant and fearless editor, Rita Bullwinkel, to share a few words.

Dear Readers,

Course Overview

This course is designed to introduce students to classic literary works. Class time will be primarily discussion based. Those discussions should remain focused on literary works. They should never become a platform for students to pitch the professor on a business that, in theory, looks pretty lucrative, but in practice turns out to be a pyramid scheme that leaves the professor with a garage full of expensive, nootropic-colostrum-infused wellness shakes.

Let’s get one thing straight from the outset: Israel’s annihilation of Gaza is no isolated military assault or act of self-defence. Rather, it is the unquestionable and horrifying culmination of a brutal story of settler colonialism dating from the zenith of the British Empire. An aggressive process of ethnic-cleansing, dispossession, and systemic violence — and […]