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The proper course of action, the one instilled in me, my friends and many of the parents I interviewed for this story, was this: you graduate high school. You get some education. And you get out. (slMacLean's)Note: the author does acknowledge in the article that the idea of children leaving the nest for good after high school or similar is a Western fixation. And...

"I knew there was no way I could just leave a sick opossum there overnight.... Obviously, it had too much of a good thing." (WaPo gift link)

The 1974 sessions for Illuminations, the album by Alice Coltrane and Carlos Santana, have yielded a treasure trove of previously unreleased material, including "previously unknown compositions, stripped back tracking sessions, overdub reels, working tapes and a cache of alternate takes and mixes."Additionally, there is "a previously uncirculated soundboard recording of a March 14, 1974 concert from the Kabuki Theater in San Francisco. The tape...

Dope Pusher Song. I Know I Can Handle It Song. Captain Junkie SongWikipedia: Unlike most of his recordings, this is not a full-fledged comedy album, but rather a record intended for children to school them on the dangers of drugs through songs and dialogue. It won the Grammy Award in 1972 for Best Recording for Children.

Endangered turtles break nesting record at famous Mon Repos beach. Rangers at the turtle rookery on the Bundaberg coast say they have seen the biggest influx of nesting loggerhead turtles since the 1970s. (Australia)The rookery on the Bundaberg coast, about 400 kilometres north of Brisbane, is home to the largest concentration of nesting turtles in Australia and the South Pacific. This season has seen...

In 1936, Viscount Gerard Wallop, the Earl of Portsmouth, founded the English Array - an insane, neo-feudalist, wildly racist and anti-semitic organisation that hoped to free the King from the constrictions of Parliament, take over the country and re-institute serfdom. Much like the Nazi Blood and Soil movement, Gerard Wallop and his colleagues were particularly obsessed with the importance of organic farming, leading to...

Ian Dunt on Substack: The hidden-away bill charting a course back to Europe (archive).New Statesman: Denmark shows how Labour can defeat the populist right (archive). Spectator: Our future is a Mafiacracy (archive).

Hello! I'm SLIM! Do you want the good news first, or the bad news? The good news is, I'm on the Moon. The bad news is, I landed on my head and can't get up.

For £332 you can get a room at the rather shabby Hôtel d'Alsace in Paris where Oscar Wilde died, not of syphillis but meningitis, on November 30, 1900."This wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. Either it goes or I do," were apparently his last words, but it has since received "a luxe makeover by the French interior designer Jacques Garcia...

Inside the Artist's Studio with Ishbel MyerscoughIshbel Myerscough – Grief, Longing and Love Ishbel Myerscough's Meditations on Time at work group portrait back of girl's head dual portrait girl's portrait girl on couch girl reclining on couch

Amid intermittent rain, clouds and spots of sun, the Sweetwater Jaycees visited the Texas Capitol this week with three boxes of western diamondback rattlesnakes in tow. For nearly 30 years, members of the Sweetwater Jaycees, a chapter of the Texas Junior Chamber, have been traveling to Austin to promote their World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup event in Sweetwater, Texas.

BuzzFeed Looks to Launch Its Own, More Positive Social Media Platform"[...] web publisher BuzzFeed, led by Jonah Peretti, is creating its own social network in order to counter the negative impacts of the current leading social apps, which are largely caused by AI-based algorithms that optimize for engagement above all else." The waitlist More on Jonah Peretti (Wikipedia) The role of AI?

I am pleased to report that after some amount of time as a dead link, it is again possible to press and drag to make wind. (The lion will surely appreciate.) (Previously)

In 133 BC, lands conquered by Rome were being taken over by vast slave-cultivated estates, pushing out the peasants who made a living there. In response, Tiberius Gracchus instituted a highly controversial empire-wide land reform. Such patterns of land appropriation, reform and rebellion have not yet stopped repeating themselves around the world...In 9 AD, famine caused many Chinese peasant farmers to sell their lands...

Congratulations. Your lowly pawn has reached the last rank and it's time to promote it to a mighty Queen. Now what are you going to do? Take the pawn off the board and replace it with your previously captured Queen, if there is one? Or with a rook placed upside down? Like an animal?

There is to be an opera about Margaret Thatcher's time as Prime Minister (1979 to 1990), Mrs T. The Times (archive link) says that the focus will be on Thatcher's relationship with Howe and his wife Elspeth Howe, who is described as a "Lady Macbeth figure". The composer, Joseph Phibbs, says that scenes will include Thatcher dancing with Reagan, and the opera will be...

How Oil Propaganda Sneaks Into TV Shows | Climate Town (YouTube, 31m13s)Includes a sponsorship slot for Ground News that's actually mildly entertaining, but if you'd rather skip it and you're not already using SponsorBlock, you can preload the resumption point in another tab.

Knowing unspoken rules, and following them without displaying that we're doing so, is a way to "legitimize our social identity". Kieran Healy: "Sui Generis". Reflecting on rules, and sometimes challenging them, helps us make sure we're actually acting according to our values. Foz Meadows: "Tools Not Rules: the importance of critical thinking". Vu Le: "'Doing the right thing' over 'doing things right,' a critical...

It is in the national interest to promote the extraordinary heritage of our Nation, so California will become New Denmark. Los Angeles? More like Løs Ångeles [denmarkification]

Over the past few months, several essays have been published in Spain that explore this desire (nostalgic or projected into the future) for a better internet and propose different collective solutions to escape this degraded internet in which the platforms have won the battle against users, where hatred has surpassed support networks, where data extraction and the desire for profit dirty every corner of...

Koalas are thriving in this hotspot but researchers aren't sure why. More than 60 endangered koalas have been discovered living in bushland around a dam in regional New South Wales. Ecologists and landowners are working to ensure the colony continues to thrive.