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I've been fighting against bear bile farming for decades and am delighted to see that South Korea is banning the vile industry.
people.com/south-korea-...
people.com/south-korea-...
South Korea to End Bear Bile Farming and Find New Homes for the 200 Bears Stuck in the Industry
Bear bile farming will be banned in South Korea, on Jan. 1, 2026, the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment announced Tuesday, Dec. 30
people.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I've been fighting against bear bile farming for decades and am delighted to see that South Korea is banning the vile industry.
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people.com/south-korea-...
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Logo lift off! 🇦🇶
This is the moment we branded up the new Discovery Building. It's our new science and operations building at Rothera Research Station, Antarctica.
Discovery replaces several buildings which faithfully stood against elements during the 50 years of Rothera's history.
📸 Eliot Perez
This is the moment we branded up the new Discovery Building. It's our new science and operations building at Rothera Research Station, Antarctica.
Discovery replaces several buildings which faithfully stood against elements during the 50 years of Rothera's history.
📸 Eliot Perez
December 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Logo lift off! 🇦🇶
This is the moment we branded up the new Discovery Building. It's our new science and operations building at Rothera Research Station, Antarctica.
Discovery replaces several buildings which faithfully stood against elements during the 50 years of Rothera's history.
📸 Eliot Perez
This is the moment we branded up the new Discovery Building. It's our new science and operations building at Rothera Research Station, Antarctica.
Discovery replaces several buildings which faithfully stood against elements during the 50 years of Rothera's history.
📸 Eliot Perez
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Zbig's no 1 on Foreign Policy's books of 2025 (and 2 on Foreign Affairs). Greatly enjoying this end of year.. foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/22/i...
The Books FP’s Contributors Loved This Year
Our favorite books—and reviews—of 2025.
foreignpolicy.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Zbig's no 1 on Foreign Policy's books of 2025 (and 2 on Foreign Affairs). Greatly enjoying this end of year.. foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/22/i...
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"The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about."
In Memoriam, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.
Clara-Jumi Kang performs Méditation, Jules Massenet, Thaïs.
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In Memoriam, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.
Clara-Jumi Kang performs Méditation, Jules Massenet, Thaïs.
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December 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about."
In Memoriam, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.
Clara-Jumi Kang performs Méditation, Jules Massenet, Thaïs.
💔🕯️🕊️
In Memoriam, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.
Clara-Jumi Kang performs Méditation, Jules Massenet, Thaïs.
💔🕯️🕊️
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This from Britain's deputy prime minister.
December 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This from Britain's deputy prime minister.
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Hear Aldous Huxley Narrate His Dystopian Masterpiece, Brave New World
Hear Aldous Huxley Narrate His Dystopian Masterpiece, Brave New World
The CBS Radio Workshop was an “experimental dramatic radio anthology series” that aired between 1956 and 1957. And it started with style--with a dramatized adaptation of Brave New World, narrated by A...
www.openculture.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Hear Aldous Huxley Narrate His Dystopian Masterpiece, Brave New World
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We are late to this piece by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social. It is brilliant, and sobering. We have a fight on our hands, booksellers…
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
jmarriott.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
We are late to this piece by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social. It is brilliant, and sobering. We have a fight on our hands, booksellers…
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
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Canada’s Supreme Court Justices has changed its ceremonial robes making now free from mink fur 🙌
👉 Learn more: https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/10/24/canadas-supreme-court-becomes-fur-free-with-new-robes
#canada #furfree #mink #stopanimalcruelty #banfur
👉 Learn more: https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/10/24/canadas-supreme-court-becomes-fur-free-with-new-robes
#canada #furfree #mink #stopanimalcruelty #banfur
November 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Canada’s Supreme Court Justices has changed its ceremonial robes making now free from mink fur 🙌
👉 Learn more: https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/10/24/canadas-supreme-court-becomes-fur-free-with-new-robes
#canada #furfree #mink #stopanimalcruelty #banfur
👉 Learn more: https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/10/24/canadas-supreme-court-becomes-fur-free-with-new-robes
#canada #furfree #mink #stopanimalcruelty #banfur
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
Paul Klee led an artistic life that spanned the 19th and 20th centuries, but he kept his aesthetic sensibility tuned to the future.
www.openculture.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Canada’s Supreme Court Justices has changed its ceremonial robes making now free from mink fur. 🧥
#furfree #mink #fur #canada #animalrights
#furfree #mink #fur #canada #animalrights
Canada’s Supreme Court Becomes Fur-Free with New Robes
On 8th October 2025, Canada’s Supreme Court Justices appeared for the first time in robes free from animal exploitation during the ceremonial opening of the judicial year. The traditional white mink…
veganfta.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Canada’s Supreme Court Justices has changed its ceremonial robes making now free from mink fur. 🧥
#furfree #mink #fur #canada #animalrights
#furfree #mink #fur #canada #animalrights
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Want to hear what’s happening at the biggest health conferences? Follow The Lancet Live on LinkedIn & get exclusive insights straight from our editors.
🔗 linkedin.com/company/lancetlive
🔗 linkedin.com/company/lancetlive
October 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Want to hear what’s happening at the biggest health conferences? Follow The Lancet Live on LinkedIn & get exclusive insights straight from our editors.
🔗 linkedin.com/company/lancetlive
🔗 linkedin.com/company/lancetlive
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Victory for cats in California! @GavinNewsom signed AB 867 to ban declawing, a painful toe amputation that causes lifelong suffering. Thank you to everyone who spoke up for cats. #DeclawingBan #California
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Victory! Historic Declawing Ban Signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom
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October 19, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Victory for cats in California! @GavinNewsom signed AB 867 to ban declawing, a painful toe amputation that causes lifelong suffering. Thank you to everyone who spoke up for cats. #DeclawingBan #California
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“Opportunity depends on our health […] This Commission identifies adverse foods and adverse food environments as the often unacknowledged barrier to health, opportunity, and justice.” - Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, opens the 2025 EAT–Lancet launch.
Livestream here ➡️ bit.ly/3VKhnaz
Livestream here ➡️ bit.ly/3VKhnaz
October 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
“Opportunity depends on our health […] This Commission identifies adverse foods and adverse food environments as the often unacknowledged barrier to health, opportunity, and justice.” - Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, opens the 2025 EAT–Lancet launch.
Livestream here ➡️ bit.ly/3VKhnaz
Livestream here ➡️ bit.ly/3VKhnaz
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Aldous Huxley, English writer and philosopher, opening the door of perception
Photo by Cecil Beaton, 1936
Photo by Cecil Beaton, 1936
September 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Aldous Huxley, English writer and philosopher, opening the door of perception
Photo by Cecil Beaton, 1936
Photo by Cecil Beaton, 1936
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Women are 1/2 the global population but only 26% of news subjects & sources. Only 2 in 100 stories challenges stereotypes. In stories, women are more often quoted as eyewitnesses – not subject matter experts, despite their qualifications. www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...
Half the world, only a quarter of the news: Women appear or are heard in just 26 per cent of all broadcast, radio and print clips | UN Women – Headquarters
Thirty years after governments pledged transformative change for women through the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a new global study finds women remain almost invisible in the world’s ne...
www.unwomen.org
September 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Women are 1/2 the global population but only 26% of news subjects & sources. Only 2 in 100 stories challenges stereotypes. In stories, women are more often quoted as eyewitnesses – not subject matter experts, despite their qualifications. www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...
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Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read
Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read
Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt said that the measure was aimed at fixing Denmark's 'reading crisis.' The Scandinavian country's 25% sales tax on books is currently the highest in Europe.
www.lemonde.fr
August 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read
#MarlenHaushofer Another translation by Shaun Whiteside. The desperate fledgling chirping for its absent mother outside a disfunctional household foreshadows a domestic disaster.
July 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
#MarlenHaushofer Another translation by Shaun Whiteside. The desperate fledgling chirping for its absent mother outside a disfunctional household foreshadows a domestic disaster.
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"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between Sunrise and Sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever."
Lost, Two Golden Hours in Common School Journal November 1844
Horace Mann born #OTD in 1796
At PG
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70681
#books
Lost, Two Golden Hours in Common School Journal November 1844
Horace Mann born #OTD in 1796
At PG
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70681
#books
May 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between Sunrise and Sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever."
Lost, Two Golden Hours in Common School Journal November 1844
Horace Mann born #OTD in 1796
At PG
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70681
#books
Lost, Two Golden Hours in Common School Journal November 1844
Horace Mann born #OTD in 1796
At PG
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70681
#books
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“Hmm, I wonder why the ground looks green?”
“Oh!” 🤯
“Oh!” 🤯
April 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“Hmm, I wonder why the ground looks green?”
“Oh!” 🤯
“Oh!” 🤯
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Career Spider Not Sure She's Ready For 3,000 Children At This Point
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theonion.com/career-...
April 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Career Spider Not Sure She's Ready For 3,000 Children At This Point
theonion.com/career-...
theonion.com/career-...
'Mine eyes smell onions,' All's Well That Ends Well, First Folio, 1623.
Happy Birthday Shakespeare
Happy Birthday Shakespeare
April 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
'Mine eyes smell onions,' All's Well That Ends Well, First Folio, 1623.
Happy Birthday Shakespeare
Happy Birthday Shakespeare
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“Since Putin is clearly set on continuing the war while dividing the West…threats (by America) to walk away only incentivise him to carry on. It is a counter-productive approach in defiance of all recent experience of bringing peace talks to a successful conclusion.” A must-read: virg.in/4jCtvUE
If Trump passes on Ukraine, it’ll be up to us
UK and Europe will have to supply arms to Kyiv and strengthen our own defences, which will require a radical rethink
www.thetimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
“Since Putin is clearly set on continuing the war while dividing the West…threats (by America) to walk away only incentivise him to carry on. It is a counter-productive approach in defiance of all recent experience of bringing peace talks to a successful conclusion.” A must-read: virg.in/4jCtvUE
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Did you know that some of the biggest, strongest animals are plant-based?! 🌱
👉 FREE plant-based recipes: https://bit.ly/VeganFTA22 🍽💚
#quotes #quoteoftheday #quotesdaily #veganquote #quote
👉 FREE plant-based recipes: https://bit.ly/VeganFTA22 🍽💚
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April 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Did you know that some of the biggest, strongest animals are plant-based?! 🌱
👉 FREE plant-based recipes: https://bit.ly/VeganFTA22 🍽💚
#quotes #quoteoftheday #quotesdaily #veganquote #quote
👉 FREE plant-based recipes: https://bit.ly/VeganFTA22 🍽💚
#quotes #quoteoftheday #quotesdaily #veganquote #quote