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Dogs in the middle ages: what medieval writing tells us about our ancestors’ pets
The Conversation – 26 January 2024 “In the middle ages, most dogs had jobs. In his book De Canibus, the 16th-century English physician and scholar John Caius described a hierarchy of dogs, which he classified first and foremost according to their function in human society.  At its apex were specialised hunting dogs, including greyhounds, known for their “incredible swiftnesse” and bloodhounds,…
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Are U.S. Republicans Selling Out Ukraine?
In 1994, an agreement was concluded to assure Ukraine of US protection against Russia if they gave up their nuclear weapons.In 2014, when the Russians rolled into Ukraine, people jumped up and quoted the Budapest Memorandum. The Russians yawned and said that the agreement only covered the previous Ukrainian government, not the illegitimate Ukrainian government.Everyone sat down and grumbled until…
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New Book - New Reviews
“Blue Jasper” has recently joined the thousands of books available to readers all over the world.I am pleased that many are enjoying these stories. If you subscribe to Kindle Unlimited all my books are free to download.See Amazon to order your copy. “Thanks for the copy. I was hoping you would share more of the tales of the team as they dodged in and out of the shadows. Wonderful stories. I’ve…
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Oh, My. Shocking conditions in Gaza. Video of Dr. Seema Jilani M.D. reporting on conditions.
Pediatric Consultant Medical Oversight Fulbright Scholar,freelance journalist and Texas Children’s Hospital physician. Seema did her post-doctoral training in pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. Seema was selected by the US Department of State as a 2016 Fulbright Scholar to Istanbul where she taught medical students including Syrian refugees how to engage in media advocacy as a…
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Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms
Employees fretted over company’s ‘negligible’ response to child grooming, according to internal documents made public in lawsuit Meta estimates about 100,000 children using Facebook and Instagramreceive online sexual harassment each day, including “pictures of adult genitalia”, according to internal company documents made public late Wednesday. The unsealed legal filing includes several…
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What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation
Teachers say mobile phones make their lives a living hell – so one Massachusetts school barred them.                     The Mirror “When the weather is nice, the Buxton boarding school moves lunch outside. Students, faculty and guests grab their food from the kitchen, and eat together under a white tent that overlooks western Massachusetts’ Berkshire mountains. As the close of the school year…
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‘I will pretend not to be me’: Russia cracks down on LGBTQ+ community
Wouldn’t you think the Russians and others would worry about more significant issues than who people choose to be with?“Less than 48 hours after ‘global LGBTQ+ movement’ banned for being extremist, LGBTQ+-friendly bars were raided“                  The Guardian – 17 January he ink was barely dry on Russia’s decision to outlaw what it called the “international LGBT public movement” as extremist…
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Adventure is a click away!!!!
Start your adventure with “The Bridge.” It tells you how it all began. http://tiny.cc/qcv0wz RJT5.0 out of 5 stars – Posted on AmazonA Great NovelReviewed in the United States “If you enjoy espionage and action, you will love this great novel. Set in the cold way era, the author skillfully brings the reader into the never-ending cat and mouse game of spies and how they risk everything to do…
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The Zone of Interest - Film on Rudolf Höss, the Kommandant of Auschwitz.
The New Yorker – Richard Brody “With movies that are based on books, there’s no inherent merit in either fidelity or infidelity. What matters is the sense of freedom, of using a book to one’s own purposes. That’s the best thing about “The Zone of Interest,” the writer and director Jonathan Glazer’s adaptation of Martin Amis’s 2014 novel of the same title. Glazer transforms it drastically and…
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The Largest Mass Execution in United States History
On the morning of December 26th, 1862, 38 Dakota men were hung in Mankato, Minnesota, under the orders of President Abraham Lincoln. They were hung from a scaffold specifically designed for the execution and killed in front of an estimated 4,000 people who lined the streets of Mankato to watch the hanging. Historical accounts document that the men held each other’s hands and sang a Dakota song in…
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Greenwashing???
What is greenwashing?  Greenwashing is when a company markets something as sustainable when it’s actually not. Ever been confused by fast-fashion brands who label their clothes as eco-friendly? Yeah, so have we.   Since more people are aware of issues like climate change and the plastic waste crisis, companies are jumping on the chance to market their products as a sustainable option, even when…
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Mainstream media is playing into Trump’s neo-fascist hands. I’m sticking with democracy and the Guardian
Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good.  “I trust the Guardian to illuminate what’s really happening as America faces an election in which one of the two likely candidates engaged in an attempted coup The reason I write a column for…
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Australia's first astronomers
BBC World News “From creative spirits to celestial rivers, there’s an intimate link between knowledge of the southern sky and Aboriginal culture. Could it be that these hunter-gatherers were the first-ever astronomers? Astronomy is deeply embedded in many of the 300-odd Aboriginal cultures across Australia, all of which share some common roots such as a belief in the Dreaming – a time beyond…
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Learning to sleep like a bear could save your life
DINO GRANDONI – The Washington Post “Ole Frøbert, a cardiologist, cozied up to his next patient, gently turning blood-filled tubes and placing the samples into a plastic bag. But drawing the blood had been more difficult than Frøbert was used to, given the fat, fur and freezing temperatures. “It’s not easy to puncture a bear vein,” he said. Normally a doctor who works at Örebro University…
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How 'chatty benches' are combating loneliness in Britain
Everyone seems to be discussing loneliness and the challenge of helping those who feel left out.On 25 December the PBS Newshour presented a story out of the UK that shares one attempt to mitigate the challenge. Click this link to watch the piece on “chatty benches.” “The United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy released a new Surgeon General Advisory calling attention to the public health…
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Longmire Christmas Story - 2023
Craig Johnson “Munching on caramel-corn I studied the individual in question, but like most of the guilty he wouldn’t make eye-contact with me. “The act of repeated undesirable behavior after experiencing negative consequences of your actions such as the percentage of prisoners who are arrested for similar offenses, or, in the parlance of the law — repeat offenders.”      I glanced at Mary Jo…
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Enjoy some Irish cheer
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