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This is an automatically generated message. A sweep of our camp registration system indicates we’re missing information we need in order to welcome your camper. The due date for this information has passed, and if we don’t receive it by the end of the day, your camper will be unable to join us.

Please upload the following item(s): PERSEPHONE CODEX.

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Your missing PERSEPHONE CODEX puts you in violation of Section 14, subpart 8, little “i” in the parent handbook, OBSCURE FORMS.

Inside the hunt for habitable planets.

The post Discovering the First Other Earths appeared first on Nautilus.

Novel ways to use gene-editing to make farming more sustainable.

The post Color-Coding Crops for Climate Change appeared first on Nautilus.

A former facility psychologist is suing the Bureau of Prisons over an Instagram account that joked about suicide at FCC Lompoc.

The post Who Ran This Derogatory Prison Meme Page? A Prison Guard. appeared first on The Intercept.

Mnar Adley takes us along her journey as she crosses through the most heavily armed and surveilled checkpoints in the world where Israel has set up an automated apartheid system to track Palestinian movement.

The post Documentary | Automated Apartheid: Walking Through Hebron Smart City appeared first on MintPress News.

Though her family sometimes received food stamps and occasionally had their utilities cut off, Marcie Alvis Walker’s parents led her to believe that they were an average middle-class Black family. They encouraged her to pursue her dreams and told her that if she worked hard enough, she’d achieve them. The small catch was that Walker’s dream was an elusive one for any cash-strapped and undereducated Black woman: being a New York Times–bestselling author. Now, as a published non-bestselling author, she wishes she’d had a backup plan.

WHAT TO INCLUDE:

Mystical Language

You want to make sure the overall vibe meets expectations. The tone cannot be contemporary, because that is not what the audience paid to read. Motherlands and fatherlands should be referenced lyrically as if they are fantasy worlds. Anything that emphasizes that this isn’t a real, living person’s story; it’s an AAPI story—the Perfect AAPI Story.

Food

It’s an easy entry point, so it needs to be a focus. Treat the food as a primary character and the people as secondary characters. Make it abundant and familiar—a table filled with dumplings, pad thai, sushi, and chicken adobo. Korean food is trendy, so throw in some kimchi. Would an actual family prepare this hodgepodge of varied national dishes? No, which is why they’re excluded from the Perfect AAPI Story.

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The movement to divest from Israel and the defense industry is gaining momentum on college campuses.

The post “A New Sense of World-Building”: Inside the Student Movement for Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.