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Scardanelli Speaks Can you hear, will you comprehend, if I speak to you of my long, grieving sickness?—Friedrich Hölderlin How can I sing to you, Diotima, without wineand the muted piano freezing me with gestures.How can I describe, through their cadences, your slow ceremoniesif I cannot drink you from my cup,if you don’t choke rowdily […]

Imagine a festive dinner near Topeka during the fall of 1879 to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Kansas Territory, with Walt Whitman as a featured speaker. Partially paralyzed by a stroke and described as “reckless and vulgar” by The New York Times—Leaves of Grass was soon to be banned for indecency […]

“I’m going to give you some advice: never attempt to say what a great book is about,” one young man of letters tells another early in Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s novel The Most Secret Memory of Men. Or, if you do, the only possible response is “nothing.” A great book is only ever about nothing, and […]

Sometime around 1520 Ferdinand Columbus, second son of the famous Christopher, wrote to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V (Charles I of Spain), requesting money for a universal library—a place, Ferdinand explained, where “all the books will be gathered, in every language, and concerning all the sciences and the arts that can be found both in […]

The public health profession uses the term “social determinants of health” to describe the social conditions that combine to influence the health of individuals and communities. These include such measurable elements as education, housing, and economic stability as well as environmental quality, structural racism, and other forms of systemic discrimination, some of which are less […]

Even apart from its punning subtitle, Porn seems to have the makings of one of those dubious inquiries into sexual experience whose high-minded claims to sociological or scientific interest will be undermined on every page by the hot, pervy details of people’s sex lives. But Polly Barton’s oral history turns out to be something different. […]

The words “she cries” show up sixty times in total in Bushra al-Maqtari’s What Have You Left Behind? The men in the book seem to weep less: “He cries” appears twenty times. These phrases, which al-Maqtari, a Yemeni journalist, puts in italics and between square brackets, read like terse, tragic stage directions, embedded within reams […]

The brainchild of Laurence des Cars, the Louvre’s president-director, “Manet/Degas” is one of the most anticipated and ambitious exhibitions of recent years. The product of an extraordinary collaboration between the Musée d’Orsay (where des Cars used to preside) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it drew 670,000 visitors in Paris earlier this year. At the […]

One early myth about the dinosaurs was that they would return. In 1830 Charles Lyell—earth scientist, Scot—gazed into the far future and posited as much in his Principles of Geology, arguing that since the planet’s climate was cyclical (or so he believed), vanished creatures could yet be revived, along with their habitats, when the right […]

Six “sub-Neptune” worlds locked in a delicate dance around a nearby star offer fresh insights for the orbital evolution of planetary systems

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Thank you for thinking of me and my son for the past eleven years as you and the rest of your firm’s staff gather around to add your signatures and nothing else to the non-denominational Costco holiday cards you send out every December.

The jolly gender-neutral snowperson last year? Classic yet updated for this LGBTQ-inclusive era. The bluebird perched on an icy pinecone the year before? Timeless. The masked gingerbread people in various colors holding hands around the earth on 2020’s greeting? Читать дальше...

Because of the economic hardships so many are facing, the need to help our most vulnerable citizens is greater than ever

Israel and Hamas Agree to Last-Minute Deal Extending Truce by 24 Hours, Decomposing Bodies of Premature Babies Discovered in Besieged Gaza Hospital, Israeli Forces Kill Two Palestinian Children in Raid on Jenin Refugee Camp, Palestinian Gunmen Kill 3 at Jerusalem Bus Stop; Netanyahu Pledges Gaza Assault Will Resume, “Christmas Is Canceled”: Protesters at NYC Tree-Lighting Ceremony Call for End to Israeli Occupation, House Progressives Join White House Hunger Strikers in Call for Gaza Ceasefire, Prominent... Читать дальше...

By Eli Yudin Published: November 30th, 2023

The Black Basta ransomware group has infected over 300 victims and received more than $100 million in ransom payments.

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The structural model of the communications system that ESA is supplying for NASA’s Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) on the Gateway recently completed a vibrations test to check it will withstand the intense shaking during the launch.

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Since the release of Havoc two weeks ago, it has become apparent that certain player groups have utilized both market manipulation as well as repeatedly destroyed their own characters (in some cases hundreds of times) in order to farm large amounts of Malakim Zealots Loyalty Points (LP) way faster than intended. Warnings have already been issued to the groups that were the biggest offenders along with confiscation of the LP and Blueprints that was acquired in this way.

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As we turn the page on November, let’s embark on a visual journey through the stars and beyond, revisiting the intriguing and groundbreaking moments that defined the past month in space exploration.

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