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Anthropologist in London. "All that glitters is not gold"
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Tim Beasley-Murray
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Today!
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Pru Madeley
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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Duke University Press
2 days ago
Ethnohistory reflects the wide range of current scholarship inspired by anthropological and historical approaches to the human condition around the world, but with a particular emphasis on the Americas. Issue 72:4 is now available, view the TOC:
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Sean A. Garrisonâ American artist.
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The Frog Prince
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Overdue Podcast
4 days ago
â'If youâre excited to read great canonized fiction, then awesome,' says [Andrew] Cunningham [yes, our Andrew Cunningham]. 'But if youâre excited to read an enemies-to-lovers romance or a book where people ride dragons, thatâs what you should read.'â We enjoyed chatting for this article!
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In a reading rut? How to get back into reading for fun
In a world full of distractions, it can be difficult to form a habit that needs attention. Experts advise on getting out of the rut
https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2025/nov/17/how-to-start-reading-fun
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot
4 days ago
Rage bait named word of the year 2025 by Oxford University Press
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Rage bait named word of the year 2025 by Oxford University Press
The phrase - meaning to get angry scrolling through social media - beats aura farming and biohack to the title.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewjxqvqzgyo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
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Otto English
5 days ago
There you go. Parliament will now consider debate on calls for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
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Eric Gordy
6 days ago
Just a reminder to everyone that you can download our new book by scanning the code below. It's FREE! You won't find a better price than that.
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Adam Bienkov
6 days ago
As Jesus once put it: "what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and then have to pay the mansion tax?"
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The Guardian
6 days ago
Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror review â dark tales with a sting
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Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror review â dark tales with a sting
This collection of macabre stories set across England explores class, hierarchy and the enduring nature of inequality
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/28/bog-people-a-working-class-anthology-of-folk-horror-review-dark-tales-with-a-sting?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1764314366
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Ian Kremer
7 days ago
A woman with dementia adored her haircut. Her husband's letter to the stylist is everything.
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The Guardian
7 days ago
âUnelected powerâ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims
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âUnelected powerâ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims
Equality Trust study shows how House of Lords appointments, big donations and media concentration affects political decision Structural corruption and the rise of âconduits for unelected powerâ are reshaping British politics, according to a stark report from the Equality Trust. Unelected influence has surged over the past two decades, the report claims, driven by the growing political clout of the ultra-rich and the institutions that enable it. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/27/ultra-rich-unelected-power-reshaping-british-politics-equality-trust-report?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Boston Review
8 days ago
âWhere everything else felt exhausted, the classroom was overflowing, plentiful. All we needed was a poem, a few hours each week, and trust in what we could do, in what we did do, together.â
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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-claims-of-close-reading/
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The Guardian
7 days ago
Inside the rise and fall of Podemos: âWe believed we had a stake in the futureâ
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Inside the rise and fall of Podemos: âWe believed we had a stake in the futureâ
The long read: The leftist party exploded out of Spainâs anti-austerity protests in 2011 and upended Spainâs entrenched two-party system. I was instantly captivated â and for the next decade, I worked for the party. But I ended up quitting politics in disappointment. What happened?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/27/inside-the-rise-and-fall-of-podemos-we-believed-we-had-a-stake-in-the-future?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1764225131
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The Europeans
7 days ago
đšNEW EPISODEđš We talk with
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about the political headwinds, why the climate "vibe shift" is happening, and how to push forward anyway. Listen here:
www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes...
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Europe's climate vibe has shifted. Now what? â The Europeans
It hasnât been a Good Week for the climate since, er, 1820-something? And it wasnât last week, either. But it is a good week for The Europeans, because weâre joined by Luisa Neubauer, one of Germany...
https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/europes-climate-vibe-has-shifted-now-what
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8 days ago
Court Prepares to Review Palestine Action Ban
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Court Prepares to Review Palestine Action Ban
Protests Continue as Legal Review of the Group's Proscription Scheduled to Begin Today
https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/court-prepares-to-review-palestine?r=jt3f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Ian Geordie Clark
8 days ago
One of the definitive punk anthems and a brilliant song. That B side âI Wanna Be Meâ is a superb song too đŻđđ„ Iâve got a French import version of âAnarchyâ with a cracking sleeve cover. Still sounds fresh and powerful today â
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The Guardian
8 days ago
âNo topic is too difficultâ: childrenâs series on life in communist East Germany wins an Emmy
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âNo topic is too difficultâ: childrenâs series on life in communist East Germany wins an Emmy
In Fritziâs Footsteps tells story of a girl growing up in Leipzig who witnesses the fall of the Berlin Wall
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/26/children-series-on-life-in-communist-east-germany-wins-an-emmy?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1764134432
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Psyche Magazine
10 days ago
Panic isnât a modern ailment. Humans have lived with it for centuries, long before medications such as benzodiazepines existed. So what did people in other eras and cultures do when terror struck, and how did they steady themselves?
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The Guardian
9 days ago
Crick: A Mind in Motion by Matthew Cobb review â the charismatic philanderer who changed science
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Crick: A Mind in Motion by Matthew Cobb review â the charismatic philanderer who changed science
Genius and arrogance play leading roles in a new biography of the man who helped uncover the structure of DNA
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/25/crick-a-mind-in-motion-by-matthew-cobb-review-the-charismatic-philanderer-who-changed-science?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1764062183
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johnedwinmason
10 days ago
If you're at all interested in how culture & politics intertwine, check out this thread about the connections between South African music & the South African anti-apartheid struggle. Includes a 1970 broadcast from the ANC's Radio Freedom. And some very cool music. đđœ
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The Guardian
10 days ago
âEnshittificationâ: how we got the internet no one asked for â podcast
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âEnshittificationâ: how we got the internet no one asked for â podcast
Tech critic Corey Doctorow explains why for so many the internet â from Amazon to Google to Instagram â seems to be getting worse
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/nov/24/enshittification-how-we-got-the-internet-no-one-asked-for-podcast?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1763961003
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The Guardian
11 days ago
Theyâre doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
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Theyâre doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trumpâs wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesusâs message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/23/america-christian-evangelical-discrimination-immigration?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1763908305
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Boston Review
12 days ago
Fifty years after his death, Francisco Franco is being rehabilitated in Spain. Writing from Extremadura in our spring issue, Troy Nahumko surveys the social and political battles still being waged over the dictatorship, with jarring parallels to Trumpâs own war on historical memory:
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Kill It with Fire - Boston Review
In Spain, ultra-nationalist efforts to rehabilitate Franco extend the global rightâs war on memory.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/kill-it-with-fire/
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Hyperallergic
12 days ago
âNo one could have guessed that another Louise Bourgeois retrospective would be needed in 2017 â to account for the aesthetic breakthroughs of old age.â âSusan Gubar, feminist scholar and literary critic
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The Women Artists Who Found Freedom in Old Age
The artists profiled in Grand Finales refused to consign themselves to what the author calls âLittle-Old-Lady-Land,â and opted to keep searching, pushing, and trying new things.
https://hyperallergic.com/1047386/women-artists-who-found-freedom-in-old-age-grand-finales-susan-gunbar/
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MIT Press
12 days ago
Read "What Does China Want?" by scholars David C. Kang, Jackie S. H. Wong, and Zenobia T. Chan in the Summer 2025 issue of International Security:
direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
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What Does China Want?
Abstract. The conventional wisdom is that China is a rising hegemon eager to replace the United States, dominate international institutions, and re-create the liberal international order in its ownâŠ
https://direct.mit.edu/isec/article/50/1/46/132729/What-Does-China-Want
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The Guardian
12 days ago
Who knew it would take an American pope to remind us of the value of art and good taste? | Jason Okundaye
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Who knew it would take an American pope to remind us of the value of art and good taste? | Jason Okundaye
Anti-AI and pro-beauty, Leo XIV has proved an unlikely custodian of culture â and a patron of meaningful work in a world of algorithmic slop, says Guardian assistant newsletter editor Jason Okundaye
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/22/who-knew-american-pope-value-art-good-taste-hollywood?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1763792283
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Trees for Life
14 days ago
A huge step for rewilding in the Highlands đČ
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NNR - one of Scotlandâs most iconic and beautiful glens - has officially joined
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Glen Affric joins UKâs largest rewilding landscape
The world-famous Glen Affric National Nature Reserve managed by Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) has joined Affric Highlands, the UKâs largest rewilding landscape â becoming the 20th landholding toâŠ
https://affrichighlands.org/news/glen-affric-joins-affric-highlands/
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Read A Little Poetry
15 days ago
âyou told me thereâs no application form that can hold / the entirety of a life, because our days constantly spill like wine.â â Ae Hee Lee (
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) . . . This poem appeared in POETRY Magazine, 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.
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OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ
16 days ago
got damn that man is cooked
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Libero Football Guide
16 days ago
Wales vs North Macedonia tonight â
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BYTESEU
17 days ago
Wales vs North Macedonia: Prediction, Betting Tips & Odds for the match
https://www.byteseu.com/1549870/
Wales vs North Macedonia: Prediction for the Match on November 18, 2025 Prediction for the World Cup match which will be held on November 18. Who will be stronger? Check the team conditions! âŠ
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Wales vs North Macedonia: Prediction, Betting Tips & Odds for the match - Bytes Europe
Prediction for the World Cup match which will be held on November 18. Who will be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.
https://www.byteseu.com/1549870/
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The Guardian
16 days ago
Israel needs to face accountability for our genocide. And so does the US | Yuli Novak
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Israel needs to face accountability for our genocide. And so does the US | Yuli Novak
The international community allowed all of this to happen. We must not look away or move on
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/18/israel-accountability-gaza-genocide?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1763464326
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Dr. Lene Auestad
17 days ago
Your favorite beauty guru but it's 1588 By Karolina Zebrowska
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your favorite beauty guru but it's 1588
YouTube video by Karolina ƻebrowska
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-_nVsZh3d8
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One of the main theses of the book is that framing an event as a âcrisisâ is never a neutral act. Crisis discourses are tools that can be easily abused or weaponized, depending on oneâs political agenda.
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David Lea Kenney Wildlife Photography
18 days ago
It was great to finally see a Hoopoe for the first time, I caught this one flicking up cockroaches to swallow!
#birds
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London Review of Books
18 days ago
âLiverpool went from having a single slave ship in 1709 to more than a hundred six decades later. By 1795 it controlled almost half of the European slave trade.â John Kerrigan on Atlantic slavery:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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John Kerrigan · No Illusions: Syntax of Slavery
Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative was...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n21/john-kerrigan/no-illusions
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Read A Little Poetry
18 days ago
âOh, your mouth is a diverâs bell; / it takes me down untold fathoms.â â Susan Glickman . . . This poem appeared in Henry Mooreâs Sheep by Susan Glickman, published by VĂ©hicule Press, 1990. Shared here with deep gratitude.
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Kashana
21 days ago
Somewhere out there someone whoâs the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world
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James Goodwin
20 days ago
Fascism requires an enormous administrative state. That's the real significance of Project 2025 and the pivot it marked for the modern conservative movement.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...
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DB Maggi
20 days ago
The doc 'Sarajevo Safari' came out in '22. It alleged that wealthy Europeans paid to shoot people from Serb-held army positions. This was reported during the war but there was no follow-up, until now with Italian prosecutors investigating. Hope Sarajevo's Romeo and Juliet finally get some justice.
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Sarajevoâs âRomeo and Julietâ, Enduring Symbols of Wartime Tragedy
Bosko Brkic, a Bosnian Serb, and his Bosniak girlfriend, Admira Ismic, became a symbol of the Bosnian war when they were shot dead in Sarajevo on May 19, 1993 - and 28 years on, no one has been convic...
https://balkaninsight.com/2021/05/19/sarajevos-romeo-and-juliet-enduring-symbols-of-wartime-tragedy/
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20 days ago
Circling the world over the last couple of nights, the aurora borealis put on quite a spectacular show in the sky of the northern hemisphere.
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George Monbiot
20 days ago
Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis â by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/14/climate-crisis-communication-super-rich
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The Third Reich of Dreams, collected the dreams of witnesses of the rise of Nazism and, ultimately, provided invaluable insight into the effects that authoritarianism has on the unconscious mind.
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Politico
22 days ago
The fight over the Epstein files is heading to the House floor. A fresh email released Wednesday â in which Epstein told a journalist that Trump âknew about the girlsâ â is jump-starting the push for a December vote Trump has tried to avoid.
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Hereâs how the House battle over the Epstein files will play out
Long-delayed swearing-in of Arizona Democrat will set the stage for a vote President Trump has sought to avoid.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/12/house-epstein-files-vote-00647392
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Paris Marx
21 days ago
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying itâs too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khanâs email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
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International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
https://www.euractiv.com/news/international-criminal-court-to-ditch-microsoft-office-for-european-open-source-alternative/
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