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An Ultradolichocephaly in a Knight of the Order of Calatrava from the Castle of Zorita de los Canes (Guadalajara, Spain) Dated Between the 13th and 15th Centuries
www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/8/...
www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/8/...
November 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
An Ultradolichocephaly in a Knight of the Order of Calatrava from the Castle of Zorita de los Canes (Guadalajara, Spain) Dated Between the 13th and 15th Centuries
www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/8/...
www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/8/...
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'I had never seen a skull like this before': Medieval Spanish knight who died in battle had a rare genetic condition, study finds
'I had never seen a skull like this before': Medieval Spanish knight who died in battle had a rare genetic condition, study finds
The extremely long skull of a medieval knight points to an underlying genetic condition.
www.livescience.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
'I had never seen a skull like this before': Medieval Spanish knight who died in battle had a rare genetic condition, study finds
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People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.
Turns out Mamdani's controversial proposal for government-run supermarkets isn't so novel. Other cities also are toying with the idea to bring fresh, affordable food to communities that do not have easy access to it. Good WSJ read (gift link)
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
Inside Atlanta’s First Government-Funded Supermarket
The goal is for the store to become profitable without any government subsidy within three years.
www.wsj.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.
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Stopping in the woods on a snowy morning
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Stopping in the woods on a snowy morning
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it's stunning how we've somehow normalized the President being completely fucking insane
Now we have the president calling a female New York Times reporter ugly because he's mad about a story she wrote.
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
it's stunning how we've somehow normalized the President being completely fucking insane
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"It is a functional toilet, and we are considering whether or not to make it available [for use] when we put it on display." #Florida based Ripley Entertainment has purchased an 18-karat gold toilet at auction for $12.1M. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/25/r... via @orlandosentinel.com
Ripley buys gold toilet / flushable art piece for $12.1 million
The sculpture, once installed at Guggenheim, is functional, has infamous background.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
"It is a functional toilet, and we are considering whether or not to make it available [for use] when we put it on display." #Florida based Ripley Entertainment has purchased an 18-karat gold toilet at auction for $12.1M. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/25/r... via @orlandosentinel.com
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Being on the ground was scary and intense, yet reading the stories now makes it real in a new way. Yesterday I focused on being there. Now, from the perspective of someone reading about it in the news, I am dumbfounded.
Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Being on the ground was scary and intense, yet reading the stories now makes it real in a new way. Yesterday I focused on being there. Now, from the perspective of someone reading about it in the news, I am dumbfounded.
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A writer gets grim news; uncommon for the individual, too common for too many.
He writes honestly and entertainingly about that news and wonders about the possibilities and the realities in a way that you can identify with.
And we can't ask fairer than that.
He writes honestly and entertainingly about that news and wonders about the possibilities and the realities in a way that you can identify with.
And we can't ask fairer than that.
I've written a big piece for the Observer about the Big C. Would be lovely if you find time to read it sometime and feel free to share.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
‘He suggested we go to a quiet room to talk. I knew that was not good news’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A writer gets grim news; uncommon for the individual, too common for too many.
He writes honestly and entertainingly about that news and wonders about the possibilities and the realities in a way that you can identify with.
And we can't ask fairer than that.
He writes honestly and entertainingly about that news and wonders about the possibilities and the realities in a way that you can identify with.
And we can't ask fairer than that.
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MPR News photojournalist Kerem Yücel was hit by less-lethal munition during the operation in St. Paul today. Other photojournalists were hit as well.
More on what unfolded at the chaotic scene: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
More on what unfolded at the chaotic scene: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
MPR News photojournalist Kerem Yücel was hit by less-lethal munition during the operation in St. Paul today. Other photojournalists were hit as well.
More on what unfolded at the chaotic scene: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
More on what unfolded at the chaotic scene: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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The tech hell-scape that we currently live in basically exists for one single reason. The U.S. banking system refused to adopt a secure, efficient, free electronic fund transfer system and that allowed PayPal to happen.
May 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The tech hell-scape that we currently live in basically exists for one single reason. The U.S. banking system refused to adopt a secure, efficient, free electronic fund transfer system and that allowed PayPal to happen.
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Horrific and preventable. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Recycling Lead for U.S. Car Batteries Is Poisoning People (Gift Article)
We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Horrific and preventable. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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A surprisingly lovely documentary in which Liverpool poet Paul Farley comes to terms with his hearing loss and the prospect of hearing aids. Also great to hear such Scouse phrases as “made up” and “give it a swerve” in a BBC doc. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Illuminated - Hearing Aids - BBC Sounds
Poet Paul Farley faces up to the fact that it’s time to address his hearing loss.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A surprisingly lovely documentary in which Liverpool poet Paul Farley comes to terms with his hearing loss and the prospect of hearing aids. Also great to hear such Scouse phrases as “made up” and “give it a swerve” in a BBC doc. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Proud to be a part of two organizations that signed this letter!
Advocacy Groups, Major Publishers Reject Call by Tennessee Demanding Compliance with White House Executive Order on Gender Identity pen.org/press-releas...
Advocacy Groups, Major Publishers Reject Call by Tennessee Demanding Compliance with White House Executive Order on Gender Identity
PEN America today joins 33 major publishers and national library and literary advocacy groups denouncing directives from the Tennessee Secretary of State warning public libraries to review their colle...
pen.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Proud to be a part of two organizations that signed this letter!
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“Please sit down before you read the next sentence. The BBC Written Archives Centre has no catalogue of its holdings available to the public…Earlier this year, the BBC suddenly announced that it was altering its archival access policy. Enquiries from the general public are now ignored.”
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Who controls the past
The BBC is restricting access to its archives
app.the-tls.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“Please sit down before you read the next sentence. The BBC Written Archives Centre has no catalogue of its holdings available to the public…Earlier this year, the BBC suddenly announced that it was altering its archival access policy. Enquiries from the general public are now ignored.”
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New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...
Made in Moscow: The “U.S. peace plan” for Ukraine was substantially formulated months ago by Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev
Since it was first published on Nov. 20, the much-discussed 28-point plan for ending the war in Ukraine has borne all the signs of a Kremlin information operation. In fact, many of its most controvers...
theins.press
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...
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South African émigré David Sacks tried to kill state AI laws — and it blew up in his face. A leaked executive order draft reveals the tech billionaire making a power play to become America’s AI policy gatekeeper. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
David Sacks tried to kill state AI laws — and it blew up in his face
A leaked executive order reveals that the tech billionaire would have become America’s AI policy gatekeeper.
www.theverge.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
South African émigré David Sacks tried to kill state AI laws — and it blew up in his face. A leaked executive order draft reveals the tech billionaire making a power play to become America’s AI policy gatekeeper. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
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There was also complicity from centrists and the mainstream left, who were afraid to contradict the narrative and wanted to avoid confronting the rank racism behind the online panic campaign. The "smol tweaks" reform system is showing how grossly inadequate it is (again).
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
There was also complicity from centrists and the mainstream left, who were afraid to contradict the narrative and wanted to avoid confronting the rank racism behind the online panic campaign. The "smol tweaks" reform system is showing how grossly inadequate it is (again).
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This is a law born of online-generated fear and intentionally uplifted by Elon Musk himself. It will mean more people end up in pretrial detention, more deaths from overcrowding, and the potential for execution methods like the firing squad.
November 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This is a law born of online-generated fear and intentionally uplifted by Elon Musk himself. It will mean more people end up in pretrial detention, more deaths from overcrowding, and the potential for execution methods like the firing squad.
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The Surreal Madness of the AI Boom talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...
The Surreal Madness of the AI Boom
TPM Reader EB emailed today to tell me something that hadn’t come...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The Surreal Madness of the AI Boom talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...
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Oh my goodness, what a poster
Share the last movie you watched!
The Postman Aways Rings Twice (1981)
The Postman Aways Rings Twice (1981)
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Oh my goodness, what a poster
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Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims
More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...
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"I took advantage of the librarian's distraction to hide The Book of Sand on one of the library's damp shelves; I tried not to notice how high up, or how far from the door.
I now feel a little better, but I refuse to even walk down the street the library's on."
I now feel a little better, but I refuse to even walk down the street the library's on."
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"I took advantage of the librarian's distraction to hide The Book of Sand on one of the library's damp shelves; I tried not to notice how high up, or how far from the door.
I now feel a little better, but I refuse to even walk down the street the library's on."
I now feel a little better, but I refuse to even walk down the street the library's on."
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Scrolling through November 1863 newspapers looking at reactions to Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation and what’s notable is how whiny the conservative Dem papers are about how Thanksgiving proclamations should be the state prerogative and not the federal government’s
plus ça change, I guess
plus ça change, I guess
November 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Scrolling through November 1863 newspapers looking at reactions to Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation and what’s notable is how whiny the conservative Dem papers are about how Thanksgiving proclamations should be the state prerogative and not the federal government’s
plus ça change, I guess
plus ça change, I guess