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Silent prayers were held in the Japanese city of Hiroshima, marking 80 years since the atomic bombing of the city by the US on August 6, 1945.
August 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Mistaking Mary Magdalene | The New Yorker @Mi Browser | www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Mistaking Mary Magdalene
The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more imaginative approaches to faith.
www.newyorker.com
April 24, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Magnolias and the Meaning of Life: Science, Poetry, Existentialism – The Marginalian @Mi Browser | www.themarginalian.org/2023/04/13/m...
Magnolias and the Meaning of Life: Science, Poetry, Existentialism
On cruelty, kindness, and the song of life.
www.themarginalian.org
April 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
An Expanding Vision of America | Nicole Eustace | The New York Review of Books @Mi Browser | www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
An Expanding Vision of America | Nicole Eustace
Major new books about the peoples who lived in North America for millennia before the arrival of Europeans are reshaping the history of the continent.
www.nybooks.com
March 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
When psychical research and analytic philosophy shared Cambridge | Aeon Essays @Mi Browser | aeon.co/essays/when-...
When psychical research and analytic philosophy shared Cambridge | Aeon Essays
Cambridge, home of analytic philosophy, was also a hotbed of psychical research. How did this spooky subject take root?
aeon.co
March 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The marriage of democracy and liberalism is not inevitable | Aeon Essays @Mi Browser | aeon.co/essays/the-m...
The marriage of democracy and liberalism is not inevitable | Aeon Essays
Wisdom from classical Greece: democracy and liberalism are both better off if we understand the difference between them
aeon.co
March 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
How Mesopotamia’s Urban and Industrial Revolution Started Politics as We Know It Today - CounterPunch.org @Mi Browser | www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/06/h...
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March 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Edward Abbey on How to Live and How to Die: Immortal Wisdom from the Park Ranger Who Inspired Generations – The Marginalian @Mi Browser | www.themarginalian.org/2025/02/19/e...
Edward Abbey on How to Live and How to Die: Immortal Wisdom from the Park Ranger Who Inspired Generations
The summer after graduating high school, knowing he would face conscription into the military as soon as his eighteenth birthday arrived, Edward Abbey (January 29, 1927–March 14, 1989) set ou…
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February 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
What removing large chunks of brain taught me about selfhood | Psyche Ideas @Mi Browser | psyche.co/ideas/what-r...
What removing large chunks of brain taught me about selfhood | Psyche Ideas
I’ve cut brains in half, excised tumours – even removed entire lobes. The illusion of the self and free will survives it all
psyche.co
February 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
So many unmarried men | Aeon Essays @Mi Browser | aeon.co/essays/for-m...
For Mary Midgley, philosophy must be entangled in daily life | Aeon Essays
For Mary Midgley, the Western philosophical tradition is shaped by the fact that its greatest practitioners were bachelors
aeon.co
February 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Zadie Smith on Optimism and Despair – The Marginalian @Mi Browser | www.themarginalian.org/2018/02/08/z...
Zadie Smith on Optimism and Despair
“Progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive.”
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February 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
A sophisticated civilisation once flourished in the Amazon basin @Mi Browser | www.economist.com/science-and-...
A sophisticated civilisation once flourished in the Amazon basin
How the Casarabe died out remains a mystery
www.economist.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:40 AM
How Pentecostalism replaced Catholic liberation theology | Aeon Essays @Mi Browser | aeon.co/essays/why-b...
Why Brazil fell for Pentecostalism but not liberation theology | Aeon Essays
How Pentecostalism’s prosperity gospel replaced Catholic liberation theology in Latin American life
aeon.co
January 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
What distinguishes fiction from nonfiction | Aeon Essays @Mi Browser | aeon.co/essays/befor...
Before you define fiction, check your metaphysical assumptions | Aeon Essays
What distinguishes fiction from nonfiction? The answer to this perennial question relies on how we understand reality itself
aeon.co
January 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays @Mi Browser | aeon.co/essays/an-ar...
An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays
A revolution in archaeology is transforming our picture of past populations and the scope of human freedoms
aeon.co
January 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Some blessings for the New Year – Marginalia on our search for meaning. @Mi Browser | www.themarginalian.org?mc_cid=c2b3a...
The Marginalian
Marginalia on our search for meaning.
www.themarginalian.org
January 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Freeing the Elephants | The New Yorker @Mi Browser | www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
Freeing the Elephants
What Babar brought.
www.newyorker.com
December 15, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Thank You, Everything: An Illustrated Love Letter to the World – The Marginalian @Mi Browser | www.themarginalian.org/2024/12/12/t...
Thank You, Everything: An Illustrated Love Letter to the World
We forget that none of this had to exist — that we weren’t owed mountains and music by the universe. And maybe we have to forget — or we would be too stupefied with gratitude for …
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December 15, 2024 at 9:21 AM
What Spain can teach the rest of Europe @Mi Browser | www.economist.com/leaders/2024...
What Spain can teach the rest of Europe
Our number-crunching suggests it was the best-performing rich economy in 2024
www.economist.com
December 13, 2024 at 5:50 PM
“The Middle Voice,” by Han Kang | The New Yorker @Mi Browser | www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“The Middle Voice”
“It first happened the winter after she turned sixteen. The language that had pricked and confined her like clothing made from a thousand needles abruptly disappeared.”
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December 12, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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Anyone who thinks the Parthenon friezes would be somehow less well exhibited or preserved outside of London needs to check their biases and go visit the Acropolis museum in Athens.

Which is incredible, and is ready and waiting to receive them.

Oh yeah there's a fantastic pinball museum nearby too.
December 3, 2024 at 11:55 AM
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My thought for this Tuesday ☕️☕️☕️
December 3, 2024 at 10:47 AM