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The 6 week course in Applied Persuasive Writing
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Before he died, Aldous Huxley said he realized the meaning of life and that he was embarrassed by it. (1/...)
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When photographer Alison Pollack at these iridescent slime molds growing on a leaf, she sees nurturing humans, like a parent and child or a brother and sister. It's one of our favorite images from @NikonSmallWorld.
sciencenews.org/article/niko…
ALT two bright blue balls that look like wrinkled pompoms, belonging to a slime mold, held aloft by what looks like a dark brown pedestal, magnified 10 times
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A city of benches is a city for people.
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A study has shown that Germany's €9 ticket massively increased low income households' social participation, thereby boasting their overall quality of life and alleviating feelings of loneliness
idw-online.de/de/news803408
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I shared these images on TikTok and people are losing their minds insisting that it's a lie - it's wild how indoctrinated people are about abortion theguardian.com/world/2022/o…
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For anyone who missed out on this glorious sequence of events:
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“Anti-trans groups wanted a seat at the big boy table and, having got it, they discovered first-hand that the rhetorical flourishes that do so well on social media don’t stand up to scrutiny in the real world.” 😆😂👏🏻
Article ➡️ archive.ph/Ji2wk
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Jon interviewed Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas Attorney General, about why her state banned gender-affirming care for minors - ignoring the guidelines of major medical organizations and taking the decision out of parents’ hands. Watch the full interview on @AppleTVPlus
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I would like to have been asked if there was any moral purpose emerging from my 40-odd books, and I would answer yes, my gradually growing conviction that simple kindness should be the governing factor of human conduct.
— Jan Morris (b. 2 October), on simple kindness
Di Stefano
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Over the last decade, an increasing number of rural French villages have been creating a “zone de rencontre” where cars are not banned but “come second” to people & bikes. Despite these horrid signs they are TRANSFORMATIONAL to village character & prosperity …
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Oh wow! How getting more awe can improve your life – and even make you a nicer person theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
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I also have some safety tips to share as it's a scary time to be a woman who runs alone:
👀If you see a women jogging, don't murder her
🔪Leave your knives and guns at home
👯♂️Bring a buddy who can stop you from doing murders
This woman documented the frightening experience she had while running.
@annenbcnews has the story and shares some safety tips including:
👟 Change your route
🏃 Run with others
🎧 Keep headphone volume low
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More than 500 French journalist have signed a charta on how to improve the reporting on the climate crisis. The charta is detailed, instructive and inspiring. This makes me proud and hopeful.
We have also translated this charter into English in order to share this initiative with our European colleagues (and the pioneering work of certain networks has helped us!):
chartejournalismeecologie.fr…
cc @wblau @risj_oxford @ClewNetwork
#UrgenceMediaEcologie
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Marvellous Minoan pots with octopus decoration, c. 3,500 years old, from Bronze Age Crete. 🐙 ❤️ At Heraklion Archaeological Museum. Photos my own.
#Archaeology
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Can you spot anything unusual about this 1908 diagram of the human clitoris from a German medical textbook? There's something a little bit remarkable about it...
ALT A black and white labelled diagram of the clitoris indicating glans, body, bulbs and crura
