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I play hide-and-seek in my penthouse apartment with my four-year-old twins, Whisper and Gem, all three of us clad in bespoke knit loungewear.

I wear my new Alaïa bandage dress to the opening of the latest Marina Abramović performance art piece at MoMA (The Artist Is Silent). The dress is a nod to the performance, in which Abramović stands in the middle of the room wearing a gag while members of the public tiptoe around her.

I own a silk Dior bathrobe exclusively for wafting silently from room to room when I’m home alone.

I celebrate the life of my best friend’s recently departed Pekingese, who was run over by a Rolls-Royce. I am dressed in black Chanel from head to toe out of respect for Monsieur Le Floof.

I arrive at my silent retreat at a Cistercian monastery in the Hamptons carrying my Louis Vuitton yoga mat. I prepared for the occasion by getting Botox shots in my armpits to ensure that the sound of dripping sweat will not disturb me during scorpion pose.

My butler is contractually obligated to say everything sotto voce.

A mediation on what we can discover about ourselves and the world if we truly wander aimlessly, free from distractions

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Water shortages are contributing to the largest displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank since 1967.

The post USAID Cuts Help Push West Bank Into Extreme Water Shortages appeared first on The Intercept.

Coral plays a surprising role in modern bone grafts

The post How to Grow Human Bones appeared first on Nautilus.

What scientists are learning from these dazzling samples

The post The Beauty of Martian Rocks appeared first on Nautilus.

Iris van Herpen’s new bioluminescent dress made of algae debuts in Paris

The post A Living Gown appeared first on Nautilus.

In the 2020s, a cursory search about the latest hot new band which has seemingly arrived from nowhere usually uncovers a private school education or the Wikipedia entry of some parent. Ozzy Osbourne, who died on 22 July 2025 following a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease and mere weeks after Black Sabbath’s farewell concert in […]

On 25 and 26 June 1955, the Congress of the People was held in Kliptown, South Africa. Proposed two years previously by Z. K. Matthews, a prominent academic, it was organised by the National Action Council. This later became known as the Congress Alliance — a coalition consisting of the South African Indian Congress, the South African Congress […]

You’re traveling through another neighborhood, a neighborhood built from a maze of zoning-board restrictions. A journey into a redlined land whose boundaries are the imagination of cranky homeowners and bored busybodies. That’s the signpost up ahead. Your next stop: the Twilight Zoning Board.

Episode 1:
“The Man in the Bottle”

A genie grants four wishes to a pawnbroker and his wife. They use the wishes to be approved for a commercial zoning variance, a land-use study, a water and sewage application, and a lawyer to help with the thirteen additional permits they need to open a second location.

Episode 2:
“King Nine Will Not Return”

The sole survivor of a World War II bomber crash cannot find any trace of his crew, but he does see jet planes flying overhead, because the city allows apartment buildings to be built only near the noisy airport, away from single-family homes.

On 26th July 2025, delegates from over 25 countries convened in London for the inaugural conference of the Global Alliance for Palestine (GAFP). This new transnational initiative seeks to transform rising global solidarity for Palestine into coordinated political action. As a member of the steering committee, I was asked to explain why we need this […]

The post Global Alliance for Palestine – my message on why we need it appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

An investigation reveals how the influential Dutch group GAMAAN uses flawed polling methods and collaborates with U.S.-funded organizations pushing regime change—while distorting Western perceptions of Iran.

The post GAMAAN: The Polling Op That’s Gaslighting the West About Iran appeared first on MintPress News.