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- So the $35 sculpture you got at an Austin Goodwill was looted from a museum during WWII. Now what?
- Laura Young thought she had gotten a deal. She then grew attached to the marble bust while she tried to figure out how to return it.
- The Heresy of Christian Nationalism
- God doesn’t bless America. That’s not how this works. I’m sorry to break it to you, Bible Belt Christians—but that’s just how it is.
- Why we're switching from Wordpress to Kirby CMS
- The Climate Game — Can you reach net zero?
- See if you can save the planet from the worst effects of climate change
- What is a life-changing realization you wish you had sooner?
- from Ask MetaFilter
- What happens to women's rights when democracy backslides
- From Nazi Germany to Mussolini’s Italy, fascists worked to repress the rights of women by restricting education and abortion rights. Now, there are echoes of that past again.
- Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics
- It costs just over $160 to get a week's worth of data on where people who visited Planned Parenthood came from, and where they went afterwards.
- Health Benefits Of Edible Bugs That Will Make You Say “Pass The Crickets”
- Whether you’re consuming them as a protein powder or the intact critters themselves, here’s what you need to know about the vitamins, nutrients, and healthy fats you can get from crickets and other edible insects.
- Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes
- “We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data,” Facebook engineers say in leaked document.
- The 6 Best Mobility Exercises for Longevity
- Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows
- “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Justice Alito writes in an initial majority draft circulated inside the court.
- These Giant LEGO-like Building Blocks Let You Build Your Own Livable House
- Beyond WCAG: Losing Spoons Online
- There are only enough hours in the day, but for some there are also only enough spoons. Find out what spoons—or a shortage of them—means in a digital context
- Remains of Ancient Giant Sea Creatures Found In Swiss Alps
- “Those that we find in the Alps are really kind of ghosts,” said the study's lead author. “We know they are there. We know they're giant."
- 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
- Global warming will happen faster than we think
- Three trends will combine to hasten it, warn Yangyang Xu, Veerabhadran Ramanathan and David G. Victor.
- A severe heat waves is gripping India. It's not even summer yet.
- March maximum temperatures were the highest in 122 years. Temperatures late this week could near April records.
- The Worst-Case Scenario for Elon Musk's Twitter
- Better Things finale: The FX series marks the end of an era.
- Before the streaming boom succumbed to algorithmic rot, anything was possible.
- Climate activist Wynn Bruce dies after setting himself on fire outside of US Supreme Court
- 'This act is not suicide. This is a deeply fearless act of compassion to bring attention to climate crisis. We are piecing together info but he had been planning it for at least one year.'
- Twitter: Elon Musk takeover announced with Tesla titan to shell out $44bn
- Entrepreneur will pay $54.20 cash per share and deal is expected to close in 2022
- Why are women philosophers often erased from collective memory?
- The history of ideas still struggles to remember the names of notable women philosophers. Mary Hesse is a salient example
- De twee-eenheid Schiphol en KLM is al lang geen motor meer van onze economie
- De economische opbrengsten van meer vluchten en meer passagiers wegen niet op tegen de overlast. Maar: ‘Je krijgt te maken met een oer-Hollands gevoel en met Hollands glorie.’
- Design Principles
- Muting your mic reportedly doesn’t stop big tech from recording your audio
- Robert Eggers on ‘The Northman’: Directing Is an ‘Insane’ Job
- The director explains why he sought out such difficult conditions, why he won’t talk with an actor about a character’s back story and why the box office matters.
- Opinion | Riding a Bike in America Should Not Be This Dangerous
- Bicyclists and pedestrians are dying at alarming rates. Do we have the courage to remake our car-centric streets?
- Macron zou Frankrijk bij elkaar brengen – het liep anders
- Als Macron aankomende zondag wordt herkozen, begint hij in veel opzichten weer bij nul.
- Netflix’s Bad Habits Have Caught Up With It
- Netflix announced the shocking news Tuesday that for the first time in a decade, it actually lost subscribers during a fiscal quarter
- How to Move Your Team Toward Async-First Communication
- Advice for team leaders and team members who want to bring more calm, focused productivity to the workplace
- Mud-caked feet, berries for breakfast and hiding from hunters: my life as a deer
- When still a teenager, Geoffroy Delorme dropped out of his lonely childhood to live among the animals in the woods of Normandy – and stayed for seven years. What did it do to him?
- Skara Brae - World History Encyclopedia
- a Neolithic Age site, consisting of ten stone structures, near the Bay of Skaill, Orkney, Scotland. Today the village is situated by the shore but when it was inhabited (c.3100-2500 BCE) it would have been further inland.
- How to spot great remote jobs
- The Joel test for remote work
- Nicolas Cage Can Explain It All
- GQ’s April cover star details why every extraordinary thing about his wild work and life actually makes perfect sense.
- The New Pandemic Mood Is Dread
- If it feels like the vibe shifted to existential despair, you’re not alone. But it won’t always be this way.
- Dunbar’s number and how speaking is 2.8x better than picking fleas
- 150, Dunbar’s number, is the natural size of human social groups.
- Cell death and vomiting: This happens in your body, if you eat poisonous mushrooms
- Toxic mushrooms can be found in Danish forests. But what makes them so poisonous?
- We denken dat we overal recht op hebben en dat wordt onze ondergang
- Sinds de industriële revolutie hebben we met z’n allen een hypotheek genomen op de toekomst die we niet willen aflossen. Het gevolg is dat de toekomst straks onder water staat.
- How To Use Music To Sleep Better
- Koningsdag 2022: Willem de Laatste
- Wij hebben wel zin in een feestje. Niet om de verjaardag van een ongekozen staatshoofd te vieren, maar juist om de monarchie uit te zwaaien.
- Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
- that red America and blue America are becoming like two different countries claiming the same territory, with two different versions of the Constitution, economics, and American history.
- Richard Madeley’s GMB Interview With A Climate Activist Had Viewers Making The Same Don’t Look Up Comparison
- "This ‘Just Stop Oil’ slogan is very playground-ish isn’t it?"
- Finland and Sweden set to join Nato as soon as summer
- Thomas Piketty Thinks America Is Primed for Wealth Redistribution
- The French economist has hope for the country that, to a large extent, invented high, progressive taxation of income.
- Climate Visuals, a project of Climate Outreach
- The world's only evidence-based and impact focused climate photography resource.
- Alice in Chains' Layne Staley: 10 Great Performances
- Layne died 20 years ago today..
- The heroic couple who defied Hitler
- Norman Ohler describes the courage of Harro Schulze-Boysen and his wife Libertas Haas-Heye in infiltrating the Nazi hierarchy to aid the German resistance
- Boil the Frog
- Create a (nearly) seamless playlist between (almost) any two artists
- Wat klimaatverandering gaat doen met de huizenmarkt
- De waarde van een huis staat of valt met het land waarop het staat. Maar wat als dat land verdwijnt? Een onderzoek.
- Gasoline prices around the world
- Climate change: IPCC scientists say it's 'now or never' to limit warming
- Staving off the worst impacts of climate change is possible, say scientists, but immediate action is needed.