"Independence" means very different things here in each case; whether the separation of former Yugoslavia into separate nations, the first phase of Greek independence from the then Ottoman Empire, or Turkey becoming a republic; these are completely different and it's misleading to compare them.

At the low end there's likely to be significant under-reporting. At the high end there's a reverse bias: people with major mental health problems may not be able to mantain a demanding high income job. This graph means less than it appears to.

It's because he was within Mordor. It's "explained" shortly after Shelob's lair, when Sam had been wearing the ring to hide from orcs but takes it off just before coming out of the tunnel and entering Mordor, because instinctively he realises that he'll become visible to Sauron in his domain.

Me sorprende que te hayan dicho que trabajar con pantallas provoca la presbicia. Yo he sido un ratón de biblioteca desde siempre, así que tengo miopía, que ya reduce el efecto de la presbicia que tengo debido a mi edad.

Por desgracia, como persona solitaria, no tengo más opción que discutir con mí mismo.

We should all have freedom of movement, to seek a better life for ourselves and our loved ones, and especially to get out of an unbearable situation. Some people vote like they're billionaires-in-waiting, but we're actually all asylum-seekers-in-waiting.

An incisive article.

Some of those men will be gay.

Some of this is just imploring people once again not to farm out their storytelling to AI. Craft and process can sometimes be the only things you'll ever get out of a story that you've written, so why would you ever give those joys away to a machine?

Yo lo empecé hace poco y me encanta.

Por cierto, no fue el único: Marie Curie recibió premios Nobel en física y química.

Is it right to assume that bluesky are prejidiced? An alternative explanation that occurs to me for the simple reason that I've seen this kind of thing before is an organised bombardment of complaints, alleging antisemitism or whatever, from a large number of individual accounts.

Maybe put out a call for unpaid volunteer slush pile readers on a trial basis? You'll be able to figure out which one is in tune with the themes and style of the magazine. I think there are many people (like myself) who would like to gain experience of the process and would volunteer.

theintercept.com/2025/05/21/s...

More details concerning the response of the South African team:
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...