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How Should We Feel about Barnes and Noble Now?
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How Should We Feel about Barnes and Noble Now?
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Help Putin find Ukraine: A historian explains the Russian government's obession with the past
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin once again reiterated his favourite sentiment: “It was only after the October Revolution that various quasi-states appeared and the Soviet government created Soviet Ukraine. It is a well-known fact.” To historian Alexander Orlov such statements are not only incorrect, but they show the Russian government's "passeism", the hostility towards the present and future.
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Help Putin find Ukraine: A historian explains the Russian government's obession with the past
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Reckoning with compassion: After an abuse scandal destroyed my Buddhist community, I had to reconsider what it means to live an ethically attuned life
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Reckoning with compassion: After an abuse scandal destroyed my Buddhist community, I had to reconsider what it means to live an ethically attuned life
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New Russian history textbook includes chapter on war in Ukraine and Russia’s ‘struggle against collective West’
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The textbook (without giving context) quotes Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov’s statement regarding Germany’s attack on the Soviet Union: “Our cause is just! The enemy will be defeated! Victory will be ours!” It is supposed to become a part of the school curriculum starting September 1, 2023. However, the publication Podyom (“Rise”) writes that the textbook will not be mandatory, citing the Russian Word publishing house.
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New Russian history textbook includes chapter on war in Ukraine and Russia’s ‘struggle against collective West’
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“My Fear of Dying Was Erased”—the Call for End-of-Life Psilocybin Care
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“My Fear of Dying Was Erased”—the Call for End-of-Life Psilocybin Care
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Canada’s 'True' Queen Romana Didulo, is a QAnon Influencer
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Canada’s 'True' Queen Romana Didulo, is a QAnon Influencer
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Helpline workers for the National Eating Disorder Association say they are being replaced by AI
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Helpline workers for the National Eating Disorder Association say they are being replaced by AI
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The secretive prisons where Russia hides and tortures Ukrainian civilians
Over the last 14 months, Russia has abducted thousands of Ukrainian civilians, from volunteers and journalists to former soldiers and officials, and locked them in Russian prisons. Most of them are not allowed to communicate with their lawyers or loved ones and without knowing reasons for their incarceration. Now Ukrainians who have been released from the facilities, as well as with their relatives and lawyers, talk about how this clandestine prison system works.
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The secretive prisons where Russia hides and tortures Ukrainian civilians
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Weaponizing the law to silence journalists
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Press freedom advocates have increasingly been criticising “lawfare”, the misuse of the law to silence critical voices. It typically involves charges not directly related to journalism and is more and more a common tool among corrupt and authoritarian regimes keen to fight freedom of expression. Instead of being targeted for the words published or spoken, journalists, publishers and editors are pursued on supposedly unrelated charges.
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Weaponizing the law to silence journalists
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‘The World Talks’: Meet a stranger from a totally different country, context and mindset for a 1:1 communication online on June 25, 2023
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Imagine if every person in the world could have a conversation with another person, across all borders. A Chinese woman from Shanghai and an American woman from the Rust Belt would exchange stories about their lives. A coal miner from Germany and a small farmer from Madagascar could share their experience of climate change. A cleaning woman from Greece could debate a teacher from Hungary about migration and LGBTQ rights. What would such conversations change?
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‘The World Talks’: Meet a stranger from a totally different country, context and mindset for a 1:1 communication online on June 25, 2023
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"We need to stop disguising military threats as 'political compromises'": Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk warns of Russian imperialism
The Ukrainian laywer and human rights activist says that Putin does not fear Nato but democracy and claims that Russia "has to be stopped in Ukraine" to not go further in its imperialistic expansion. "The imprisoned peoples of Belarus, Chechnya, Dagestan, Tatarstan, Yakutiia, and others endure forced russification, the expropriation of natural resources, and prohibitions on their own language and culture." [Speech transcript in English and German, or watch the recording in English.]
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"We need to stop disguising military threats as 'political compromises'": Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk warns of Russian imperialism
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Book Publishers Are Trying to Destroy Public E-Book Access in Order to Increase Profits
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Book Publishers Are Trying to Destroy Public E-Book Access in Order to Increase Profits
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Nadia Murad: Yazidi woman who escaped Daesh: Nobel Peace Prize lecture 2018 (English subtitles)
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Nadia Murad: Yazidi woman who escaped Daesh: Nobel Peace Prize lecture 2018 (English subtitles)
One year without Iryna: The father of one of 2,000 Ukrainian civilians in Russian captivity refuses to lose hope
Iryna Gorobtsova was abducted by Russian forces from the home where she grew up in Kherson. She has now spent a year in a Crimean prison, with virtually no contact with the outside world.
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One year without Iryna: The father of one of 2,000 Ukrainian civilians in Russian captivity refuses to lose hope
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NGO offers database with programmes aiming to help Ukrainians affected by the war and Russians who fled the country
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True Russia, a non-profit organisation founded by Russian artists and economists who oppose the war, have created a constantly growing database of social, cultural and scientific initiatives of communities around the world - from distance jobs for academics to remote IT assignments, and from housing initiatives to psychological help.
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NGO offers database with programmes aiming to help Ukrainians affected by the war and Russians who fled the country
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The Future of The Nib: After ten years of publishing, The Nib is going to close down this summer.
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The Future of The Nib: After ten years of publishing, The Nib is going to close down this summer.
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How we're supposed to sit in chair when using computers apparently
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How we're supposed to sit in chair when using computers apparently
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Restitution of Cultural Property and Human Rights
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Restitution of Cultural Property and Human Rights
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Over 100 Nobel Laureates demand release of Belarusian peace laureate Ales Bialiatski
PEN International, the literary and free expression organisation, has released a letter signed by 103 Nobel Laureates, expressing solidarity with writer, human rights defender, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and PEN member Ales Bialiatski, and condemning the Belarusian authorities’ brutal, relentless, and systematic crackdown on independent voices.
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Over 100 Nobel Laureates demand release of Belarusian peace laureate Ales Bialiatski
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Safe injection sites are associated with 30% increase in detoxification services
I take this to mean they increase drug quitting behavior
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Safe injection sites are associated with 30% increase in detoxification services
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