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Carola Huttmann
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Hermit, writer, reader, book reviewer, independent scholar
Advocate for disability, mental health, equal rights, reducing climate change, saving the environment

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2026 is NATIONAL YEAR OF READING
encouraging everyone — children & adults — to make reading for pleasure as vital as breathing & eating .....

Make a habit of always carrying a book & reading if you're waiting in a queue or at a bus stop .....
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#Books #Reading
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Interesting!

‘It’s younger people seeking some sort of spirituality’: The rise of UK Bible sales
#Christianity #Spirituality #Bible #BibleStudy #Religion #Faith #YoungPeople #UK
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‘It’s younger people seeking some sort of spirituality’: UK Bible sales reach record high
Surge in 2025 sales correlates with the growth in church attendances in England and Wales, research shows
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January 10, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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‘Profound impacts’: record ocean heat is intensifying climate disasters
#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #CO2 #ClimateEmergency #Environment #FossilFuels #Oceans #OceanWarming #GlobalWarming #GlobalHeating #Extremeweather
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‘Profound impacts’: record ocean heat is intensifying climate disasters, data shows
Oceans absorb 90% of global heating, making them a stark indicator of the relentless march of the climate crisis
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January 9, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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Absolutely shocking, imo .....

Increasingly, teens are given only parts of books, and they often read not in print but on school-issued laptops
#Books #Reading #BookCommunity #Children #Schools #ReadingCommunity #LoveBooks #LoveReading #Education #Literature
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Many schools don’t think students can read full novels anymore. That’s a tragedy | Margaret Sullivan
Increasingly, teens are given only parts of books, and they often read not in print but on school-issued laptops
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January 6, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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Celebrating World Introvert Day

* Reflect on Your Strengths
* Practice Self-Awareness
* Embrace Your Inner World
* Challenge Common Myths About Introversion
#WorldIntrovertDay #Introverts #Mindfulness #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAwareness
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January 2, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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Winter blooming of hundreds of plants in UK ‘visible signal’ of #climatebreakdown
#Climate #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #CO2 #ClimateEmergency #ClimateActionNow #ClimateJusticeNow #Environment #Biodiversity #GreenhouseGasses #FossilFuels #GlobalWarming
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Winter blooming of hundreds of plants in UK ‘visible signal’ of climate breakdown
New year plant hunt shows rising temperatures are shifting natural cycles of wildflowers such as daisies
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January 2, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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2026 is NATIONAL YEAR OF READING
encouraging everyone — children & adults — to make reading for pleasure as vital as breathing & eating .....

Make a habit of always carrying a book & reading if you're waiting in a queue or at a bus stop .....
literacytrust.org.uk/reading-for-...
#Books #Reading
January 1, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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National Year of Reading 2026: time to start a healthy habit for life
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#NationalYearofReading2026 #Reading #Children #Libraries #ReadingCommunity #Books #BookLovers #BookCommunity #Literature #LoveReading #Schools #Parents #YoungPeople
The Guardian view on the National Year of Reading 2026: time to start a healthy habit for life | Editorial
Editorial: A Children’s Booker prize, library cards for newborns and a major campaign – initiatives to encourage a love of books in children are a cause for celebration
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December 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Climate crisis demands political honesty about extreme weather
#Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #FossilFuels #Environment #ClimateEmergency #HurricaneMelissa #Jamaica #GreenhouseGasses #GlobalHeating #GlobalWarming #ExtremeWeather #COP29 #COP30
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The Guardian view on adapting to the climate crisis: it demands political honesty about extreme weather | Editorial
Editorial: Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today we look at how the struggle to adapt to a dangerously warming world has become a test of gl...
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December 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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The pioneering light boxes helping #Orkney islanders avoid #seasonalaffectivedisorder
#SADAwareness #MentalHealth #EmotionalWellness #SelfCare #MindBodyBalance #MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealthAwareness #MentalWellbeing #Winter #WinterBlues
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The pioneering light boxes helping Orkney islanders avoid seasonal affective disorder
Wintering Well boxes to counter effects of low light on mental health are ‘super popular’, says island librarian
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December 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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December 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Manuscript now submitted!
carolatack.bsky.social Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social · Dec 1
A very exciting start to the month as the final contribution to the Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Political Thought arrived in my inbox - heading now to submission of a complete and formatted manuscript! Partial contents list as a teaser below:
Foreword: engaging with Greek political thought in the 21st century Introduction and overview: I Origins and beginnings 1 Before the Greeks: echoes of earlier societies’ thought on governance 2 Early Greek political thought in poetical texts: Hesiod, Theognis, lyric poets 3 Cosmology, order, and the political: the Presocratics 4 Political Thought in inscriptions, documents and other non-literary sources 5 The Politics of Political Theory in Athenian Drama II Classical Greek political thought 6 Model constitutions: the emergence and development of the politeia tradition and typologies of political arrangements 7 Early Democratic Thought: Democritus, Anonymus Iamblichi, and Protagoras 8 Political Thinking in Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon 9 Socrates between City and Self: The Apologies of Xenophon and Plato 10 The concept of partnership in Plato's Republic 11 Civic Friendship and Virtue in Plato's Republic 12 Plato, politics and epistemology: the Republic and other dialogues 13 Building a new model for kingship in Plato’s Statesman 14 Plato's Laws: envisioning a new society 15 Criticisms of Democracy in Plato's Gorgias and Republic 16 Aristotle on the Partnership in Living Well and Living Together 17 Aristotle: defining the citizen 18 Aristotle on Justice, Friendship and Proportionate Reciprocity 19 Virtue and Politics: Isocrates and Xenophon III Themes and contexts 20 Stasis, conflict and change in Greek political thinking 21 Mass participation in the polis: Ps-Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, Isocrates, Plutarch 22 Citizenship and non-citizenship: status hierarchies in the polis 23 The Limits of Law: Nomos in Plato and Aristotle 24 Cities and their gods: religion in Greek political thought 25 Bad tyrants and good kings: single-person rule 26 Comparisons with others: Persia, Egypt and non-Greek societies in Greek political thought 27 Slavery and freedom as a political analogy 28 Sparta in Greek political thought: Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch
December 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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What a great initiative!

‘Bills keep going higher’: community ‘warm spaces’ on the rise in the UK
#Austerity #BrokenBritain #CostOfLivingCrisis #Food #UK #CommunitySupport #FoodAffordability #FoodCrisis #FoodInsecurity #London #Poverty #SafeSpaces #WarmSpaces
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‘Bills keep going higher’: community ‘warm spaces’ on the rise in the UK
As places such as Walworth Living Room step in to help people in need, charities lament lack of government help
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December 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Region known as ‘world’s refrigerator’ is heating up as much as four times as quickly as global average, Noaa experts say
#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Environment #FossilFuels #Arctic #GreenhouseGasses #GlobalWarming
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Arctic endured year of record heat as climate scientists warn of ‘winter being redefined’
Region known as ‘world’s refrigerator’ is heating up as much as four times as quickly as global average, Noaa experts say
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December 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds
#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #CO2 #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CarbonEmissions #Environment #FossilFuels #GreenhouseGasses #GlobalHeating #GlobalWarming
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Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds
Analysis marking 10 years since Paris climate agreement underscores effectiveness of strong government policies
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December 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Keeping promises on renewables, energy efficiency and methane ‘would avoid nearly 1C of global heating’
#COP30 #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #CO2 #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #Environment #FossilFuels #GreenhouseGasses #GlobalWarming #GlobalHeating
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Keeping promises on renewables, energy efficiency and methane ‘would avoid nearly 1C of global heating’
Analysis published at Cop30 summit shows adhering to pledges offer world hope of avoiding climate breakdown
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November 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #COP30 #CO2 #COP30Brazil #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Environment #FossilFuels #GreenhouseGasses #GlobalHeating #GlobalWarming #ParisAgreement
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World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
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November 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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9th – 15th November 2025 is #InternationalWeekofScienceandPeace

Science is essential to understanding our world & building a better future. Explore the vital connection between science, technology & peace.
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#Science #Peace #Technology #Climate #ClimateChange #HumanRights
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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SHOCKING!!

How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – then kept drilling
#Brazil #Brazil #COP30 #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Environment #CO2 #FossilFuels #GreenhouseGasses #GlobalHeating
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How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling
Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action
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November 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, UN chief tells #Cop30 summit
#Belém #Brazil #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #CO2 #Environment #FossilFuels #GreenhouseGasses #GlobalHeating #GlobalWarming
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Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, UN chief tells Cop30 summit
UN secretary general António Guterres urges opening session in Brazil to bring about a ‘fundamental paradigm shift’
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November 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Still a chance to return to 1.5C climate goal, researchers say
#Belém #Brazil #COP30 #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #Environment #CO2 #FossilFuels #GreenhouseGasses #GlobalHeating #GlobalWarming
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Still a chance to return to 1.5C climate goal, researchers say
Report calls for scaling-up of renewable energy and electrification of key sectors to limit peak of global heating
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November 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Paris Agreement helping to avert dozens of hot days each year, scientists say
#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #Environment #ParisAgreement #FossilFuels #GreenhouseGasses #GlobalWarming #GlobalWarming
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Paris Agreement helping to avert dozens of hot days each year, scientists say
Emissions cuts under the 2015 climate accord are stemming the number of hot days globally, highlighting the treaty's role in tackling global warming, according to new study
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October 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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What do unpublished #stories found in Harper Lee’s apartment tell us about the To Kill a Mockingbird author?
#Books #BookCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Reading #ToKillAMockingbird #HarperLee #BooksonBluesky #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #ClassicLiterature #BookLovers
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‘A glimpse of genius’: what do unpublished stories found in Harper Lee’s apartment tell us about the To Kill a Mockingbird author?
When she died, the writer left behind a cache of notebooks and manuscripts. Her biographer reveals what they tell us about her unlikely rise to literary stardom
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October 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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NEW ON MY BLOG .....

BOOK REVIEW: Michel Foucault, the State and the Social Sciences, by Arnault Skornicki (Author), Andrew Brown (tr.)
@hss.springernature.com #Books #Academia #MichelFoucault #SocialScience #Philosophy #ReadingCommunity #BookCommunity
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BOOK REVIEW: Michel Foucault, the State and the Social Sciences, by Arnault Skornicki (Author), Andrew Brown (tr.)
IN this academic monograph the author argues that Foucault should be regarded as providing, not a facile theory of the state as power, but...
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October 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Climate advisers warn that current plans to protect against extreme weather are inadequate
#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Environment #FossilFuels #GreenhouseGasses #GlobalHeating #GlobalWarming #CarbonEmmissions #CO2
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UK must prepare buildings for 2C rise in global temperature, government told
Climate advisers warn that current plans to protect against extreme weather are inadequate
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October 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement
The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement
The complete works, including previously unpublished poems and expert notes, are brought together in one volume for the first time
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October 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM