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The Art Of Being Our Best Friend (opens the original)
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The earliest traces of a dog, or early canid, that walked in companionship alongside a human, are about 26,000 years old: pawprints in France’s Chauvet cave. Going thousands of years further back, dogs were, if you will, the first “proof of concept” – for Paleolithic humans – that domestication is possible. This unique cross-species friendship has been recorded for as long as cave art, and then the written word, have existed. So what is left to be told? Ask cultural historian Thomas W Laqueur. I
Peaceful works best when protesting (opens the original)
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Five months is a long time, but some of us still remember why Trump declared war on Iran. “All I want is freedom for the people,” he announced hours after the first strikes. He’d thought if he took out the leadership, Iran’s regime would collapse. But regime change is a lot harder than most people imagine, especially when attempted with force. And the evidence has been around for 15 years now, ever since Erica Chenoweth and Maria J Stephan published their research in Why Civil Resistance Works:
Take Vitamin S, Skip The Pill (opens the original)
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Modern life is in dire need of sunlight, but without medicalisation and commercialisation Modern life is lived indoors and out of sunlight. The case that journalist Rowan Jacobsen makes in his book In Defense of Sunlight: The Surprising Science of Sun Exposure, is that we need to get back out there. We are forgetting the heavens when, ironically, we are the heavens. Energy comes from sunlight, it animates all of Earth, and some of it finds you directly. It’s still free, legal, and widely availab
Will the world go hello kitty? (opens the original)
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Japan’s way of coping with disruption is a blueprint for other societies There is a popular internet trope that Japan lives in the future. From the Shinkansen to intelligent AI-enabled hospitals, in many aspects Japan indeed feels futuristic. But what if Japan is more? A mirror to the rest of the world, showing what awaits them decades down the road? In Pure Invention: How Japan Made The Modern World , author Matt Alt postulates that Japan has not just been shaping the world, but also laying out
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