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What Everyone Gets Wrong About Mamdani’s Public Grocery Store Idea
When studying food insecurity, scholars distinguish between “availability” (what is actually on the shelves) and “access” (what shoppers…
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Is the Dictionary Done For?
He also introduces us to terms likely to be new to many readers: “sportocrat,” “on fleek,” “vajazzle,” and the German word…
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The Year the Movies Went Big on Isolation
Retreating to sparsely populated and remote settings, these films did not attempt to build dense webs of social relations or to show their…
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Lorenzo Mattotti’s “Goodbye to All That”
For the cover of the December 29, 2025 & January 5, 2026, issue, the artist Lorenzo Mattotti depicted a time-honored way to shake off the…
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Biden Moved These Men off Death Row. Trump Wants Them Back On.
That Biden commuted those federal sentences at all was somewhat surprising. He had campaigned on ending the death penalty, but once in…
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The Organists Improvising Soundtracks to Silent Films
A hundred and three years on, F. W. Murnau’s “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror” still haunts the moviegoing unconscious. Newcomers feel…
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The Peak of Trump’s Fact-Free Vendetta Against Regulation
Lo and behold, that started to happen during the presidency of Barack Obama. Obama’s OIRA administrator, Cass Sunstein, broadened…
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The Psychology of Fashion
Virginia Woolf had portrayed a similar tension between unity and fragmentation a decade earlier, with Mrs. Dalloway gazing at herself in…
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It Takes Only Five Paintings to See Helen Frankenthaler’s Genius
In a small show at MOMA, Frankenthaler seems to make paint its own living force, untouched by an artist. Source link
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Chinese AI firm MiniMax to launch Hong Kong IPO in early January
The firm develops multimodal AI models which can process text, audio, images, video and music Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm…
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Singapore stocks edge higher, tracking regional bourses; STI up 0.9%
Local shares closed higher on Monday (Dec 22), tracking regional bourses. The benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) rose 0.9 per cent or…
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Video: Who Is Trying to Replace Planned Parenthood?
new video loaded: Who Is Trying to Replace Planned Parenthood? As efforts to defund Planned Parenthood lead to the closure of some of its…
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Video: Uber Clears Violent Felons to Drive
new video loaded: Uber Clears Violent Felons to Drive Our reporter, Emily Steel, found that in many states, Uber’s guidelines allow people…
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Epidural kit shortage could last until March,officials say
A shortage of epidural kits in the UK is expected to last until at least March, officials have warned. Healthcare providers received a…
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Can the right to disconnect ever work in America?
At 10:24 p.m., while brushing his teeth, my husband’s phone pings. It’s not an emergency. No one is bleeding. No building is on fire. It’s…
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Welcome to Kenya’s Great Carbon Valley: a bold new gamble to fight climate change
“Climate change is disproportionately impacting this part of the world, but it’s also changing the rules of the game all over the world,”…
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This company is developing gene therapies for muscle growth, erectile dysfunction, and “radical longevity”
It’s debatable whether healthy people should be exposed to these risks, says Fernandez Lynch. The technology “still has serious questions…
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Russian general killed by car bomb in Moscow, officials say
A Russian general has been killed in a car bombing in Moscow, officials have said. Russia's Investigative Committee said Lt Gen Fanil…
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At least 13 photos removed from Justice Department released Epstein files
Watch: Images, cassettes and high-profile figures - What's in the latest Epstein files? Items from the Epstein files, including a photo of…
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Brrrr... 20 Perfectly Plush Plus Size Puffer Coats to Rock Now
Let’s be real—winter without a puffer coat is like hot cocoa without marshmallows. It’s technically fine, but why settle for just fine?…
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SingPost’s 2024 fraud incident allegedly involved e-commerce shipments bound for Canada
More details have emerged about Singapore Post’s (SingPost) parcel delivery fraud incident that came to light in 2024. The Business Times…
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China’s power reforms, global data centre buildout usher in battery boom
A revamp of China’s electricity market is boosting the economics of storing power just as international demand surges, sparking a boom for…
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Tech is not the sexy job it used to be
In November, Apple laid off dozens of sales employees in a rather unexpected move for the tech giant. Apple is the rare tech company that…
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PDC World Championship 2026: Paul Lim, 71, on being oldest winner, darts in Asia and facing Luke Humphries
Lim met Englishman Humphries in the first round of the 2021 World Championship and, on that occasion, Lim was a 3-2 winner. The odds of a…