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My father was stationed in Alabama when white supremacist terrorists killed four Black girls in Birmingham. My favorite neighbor in the latter 2010s was a Holocaust survivor who was only alive because she made a run for it during a Nazi death march through the forest.

Ancient history? Hell, it isn't even history when you KNOW someone who was there.

Surprise!

"One explanation for the resurgence of scientific racism—what the psychologist Andrew S. Winston defines as the use of data to promote the idea of an “enduring racial hierarchy”—is that some very rich people are underwriting it."

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

'That book’s philosophical themes, however, continued to percolate and eventually emerged in an entirely different form in a series of stories called Artifices (1944). In that collection’s opening story, Borges describes a man who loses his ability to forget.'

aeon.co/essays/borges-and-heis

The latest iteration of the EU's Critical Raw Materials Act establishes that 15% of domestic demand should be met by recycling by 2030, and 50% processed within the EU.

But the plenary text warned that "deep sea mining will most likely result in damage to ecosystems and a permanent loss of biodiversity," calling for a moratorium on deep-sea mining since the impact on marine ecosystems has not been researched.

euobserver.com/green-economy/1

#EU #EuropeanParliament #DeepSea #Mining #Marine #Ecosystems

Today's Republican party is a disgrace. The lies, the hypocrisy, the racism, the bigotry, the denialism, and the ludicrous conspiracy theories are more than I can stomach 🤢🤢🤢

Texas Republicans put Ken Paxton above the law

Paxton's acquittal by fellow Republicans confirms that Republicans believe a man with the right politics cannot break the law.
#AureFreePress #News #GOP #Politics #USA #Trump #MAGA #Republicans

msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio

Marvellous creative commons poster available in English and French on best practices to #StopTheSpread of #COVID19, visualizing how #CovidIsAirborne and why it is so important both to #MaskUp and #CleanTheAir. Credits to I. Bauthian and R. Morse.

“Les amis de la vérité sont ceux qui la cherchent et non ceux qui se vantent de l'avoir trouvée.”
Discours sur les conventions nationales

Nicolas de Condorcet was born #OTD in 1743.

His ideas, including support for a liberal economy, free and equal public instruction, constitutional government, and equal rights for women & people of all races, have been said to embody the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment. via @wikipedia

Marquis de Condorcet @ PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34

#books #literature

'Senator Harley Kilgore, a leader of the wartime initiative that led to the establishment of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1950, contested this convention; a liberal Democrat from West Virginia, he thought the government should hold the patents on any research it funded. '

nybooks.com/articles/2023/10/0

'Everything Musk thought he was making better, he made worse. Since then, Musk has doubled down, spreading the very Russian propaganda that made him a dupe, and moving closer to a common fascist position with Putin. In a race to the bottom, both men in recent days have been blaming antisemitism on the Jews. It is not going well for Russia on the battlefield, but Musk’s handlers can certainly say that they have done their part.'

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

'The central conundrum in Brazil’s struggle to construct a cultural identity of its own has remained remarkably constant since the first Portuguese explorers arrived in 1500 and encountered Tupi-speaking peoples: To what extent should the European components of the country’s heritage be favored, as opposed to its indigenous and African strands? Or as a group of São Paulo intellectuals memorably phrased it in a manifesto issued nearly a century ago, “Tupi or not Tupi; that is the question.”

nybooks.com/articles/2023/10/0

'Researchers who signed up in the past year or so tell Science they committed between $3000 and $6000—plus interest payments on any loans Cheeky Scientist helped them apply for. Hankel declined to comment on the number of people enrolled in the Diamond Program, the company’s pricing strategies, or the program’s content.'

science.org/content/article/cr

'Constata-se assim que o número de objeções varia, não na proporção do número de semanas de gestação, mas da autonomia da decisão da mulher: para os profissionais de saúde, o que parece ferir mais a consciência é a possibilidade de as mulheres decidirem abortar sem ser por "razões médicas"

dn.pt/sociedade/sete-hospitais

'Un equipo internacional, en el que participa la neurocientífica española Amaia Arranz, ha introducido 100.000 neuronas humanas en el cerebro de ratones para intentar investigar en vivo qué ocurre durante el alzhéimer. Los autores han observado cómo perecen las células y han logrado evitar esta muerte neuronal con un simple tratamiento oral. Su avance se publica este jueves en la revista Science'

elpais.com/ciencia/2023-09-14/

"Long-term cooking duos on television are rare (where is the successor to Two Fat Ladies?) and perhaps particularly rare is a man and a woman making a meal together without marriage or romantic attachment between them. Child was the most Frenchified American at the time, Pépin the most enthusiastically Americanized Frenchman. “We argued on stage, stealing each other’s mise en place,” he wrote in 2012 in The New York Times."

nybooks.com/articles/2023/10/0

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