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Swapping your daily butter intake for certain plant-based oils may help reduce your risk of death, a new study finds. cnn.it/3Du9LmM
March 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Swapping your daily butter intake for certain plant-based oils may help reduce your risk of death, a new study finds. cnn.it/3Du9LmM
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Thou shalt not claim to be improving efficiency when all you do is fire people and then beg them to come back.
March 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Thou shalt not claim to be improving efficiency when all you do is fire people and then beg them to come back.
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‘Victor Serge’s self-conscious marginality became a posthumous badge of authenticity: it helped reassure countless liberals and leftists that one could oppose the Soviet Union without giving up on the dream of liberation from capitalism.’
Greg Afinogenov: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Greg Afinogenov: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Greg Afinogenov · Thank God for Dynamite: Victor Serge in the Archives
Serge's animating question is about the relationship between an individual and the time in which he lives. How does he...
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March 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
‘Victor Serge’s self-conscious marginality became a posthumous badge of authenticity: it helped reassure countless liberals and leftists that one could oppose the Soviet Union without giving up on the dream of liberation from capitalism.’
Greg Afinogenov: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Greg Afinogenov: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Every time I read a story like this I recommit to be louder and more defiant.
March 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Every time I read a story like this I recommit to be louder and more defiant.
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Thought for the Day…
February 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Thought for the Day…
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Muhammad al-Zaqzouq on living through the first three weeks of the war on Gaza, translated by Katharine Halls
Days and Nights in Gaza | Muhammad al-Zaqzouq
Last spring I got an email from the Palestinian novelist Adania Shibli asking if I had time to translate some work by a Gazan colleague of hers who was
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February 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Muhammad al-Zaqzouq on living through the first three weeks of the war on Gaza, translated by Katharine Halls
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‘Corbet’s films dramatise questions rather than answer them. How brutal or damaging does your childhood have to be to make you a great dictator or a memorable pop star?’
Michael Wood on Brady Corbet and 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Wood on Brady Corbet and 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Wood · At the Movies: ‘The Brutalist’
Despite the importance of the architectural meaning of the film’s title, the other meaning, the wrong meaning, is also...
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February 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
‘Corbet’s films dramatise questions rather than answer them. How brutal or damaging does your childhood have to be to make you a great dictator or a memorable pop star?’
Michael Wood on Brady Corbet and 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Wood on Brady Corbet and 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Got this great box of #BannedBooks from a friend for my #LittleFreeLibrary. I'm excited to stock these bangers this year 💙📚
#BookSky #ThriftFinds
#BookSky #ThriftFinds
February 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Got this great box of #BannedBooks from a friend for my #LittleFreeLibrary. I'm excited to stock these bangers this year 💙📚
#BookSky #ThriftFinds
#BookSky #ThriftFinds
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Thou shalt not spend millions on Super Bowl ads about Jesus when you could’ve used it to feed the hungry.
February 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Thou shalt not spend millions on Super Bowl ads about Jesus when you could’ve used it to feed the hungry.
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🧪Measles “is the thing we see first when public health starts to falter,” Ratner said recently from his office in New York City.
www.latimes.com/science/stor...
www.latimes.com/science/stor...
A leading pediatrician was already worried about the future of vaccines. Then RFK Jr. came along
The best and the worst thing about vaccination, pediatrician Dr.
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February 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🧪Measles “is the thing we see first when public health starts to falter,” Ratner said recently from his office in New York City.
www.latimes.com/science/stor...
www.latimes.com/science/stor...
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‘“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” won the Special Prize at Cannes last year and is among the first to dramatise the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. Mohammad Rasoulof was jailed in Iran more than once because of his films.’
Saleem Vaillancourt on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...
Saleem Vaillancourt on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...
Saleem Vaillancourt | ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’
When Iman shows his wife, Najmeh, his new gun, it comes with the news that he’s been promoted to the post of...
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February 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
‘“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” won the Special Prize at Cannes last year and is among the first to dramatise the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. Mohammad Rasoulof was jailed in Iran more than once because of his films.’
Saleem Vaillancourt on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...
Saleem Vaillancourt on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...
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Naughty Things You Can Say On Thanksgiving:
"Tying the legs together keeps it moist inside."
"Tying the legs together keeps it moist inside."
November 28, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Naughty Things You Can Say On Thanksgiving:
"Tying the legs together keeps it moist inside."
"Tying the legs together keeps it moist inside."