Black Freedmen seek recognition Hartford Courant 5/3/21 By Sean Murphy OKLAHOMACITY— As the U.S. faces a reckoning over its history of racism, some Native American tribal nations that once owned slaves also are grappling with their own mistreatment of Black people. When Native...

<span;>Black Freedmen seek recognition <span;> Hartford CourantBy Sean Murphy<span;> <span;> OKLAHOMACITY— As the U.S. faces a reckoning over its history of racism, some Native American tribal nations that once owned slaves also are grappling with their...

IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK by Stasha Healy Who were the notable residents of this Greenwich house? There's a home in Greenwich that has many stories to tell beginning with its location in a neighborhood nearly lost to history. The area around Round Hill Road and Horseneck Brook...

AHOY, MATEY! Did Captain Kidd bury treasure in Connecticut? Naming a secret location of buried treasure Money Point Money Island probably isn't too wise. Legends of the lost Connecticut treasure of Captain William Kidd have been saved down for hundreds of years, with secret bo...

Why are there hundreds of brains in a Yale basement?

What lies beneathNetwork of green walks proposed along routes of capital’s lost riversThe Guardian 5/3/21 Caroline DaviesLondon has been sculpted by its rivers over centuries. Today, though, while vestiges of some remain visible, most lie buried beneath pavements and submerged...

FEATURES / BONUS READSAVING THE MOONWhat protections exist for the Moon as private industry rushes to mine our ancient satellite?BY CERIDWEN DOVEYf0114-01(PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES)No matter where in the world we are, when we look at the full Moon we see something that has remained...

First-class propertyMona Lisa of stamps up for sale at $10m The Guardian Mark Brown Arts correspondent 4/29/21At first glance it could be an old scrap of paper which has had blackcurrant juice knocked over it. In reality it is, for its size, weight and material, arguably the m...

Your right to fix that broken phone 4/27/21 New York Daily NewsBY ZEPHYR TEACHOUT Teachout, a professor of law at Fordham University, is the author of “Break ‘Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom From Big Ag, Big Tech and Big Money.” When we think of trust-busting in the 21st century...

Turkmenistan dedicates new public holiday to Alabai dog The Guardian 4/27/21 Helen Sullivan and Reuters Turkmenistan has inaugurated a new public holiday dedicated to its national Alabai dog breed, to which its leader has already erected a gilded monument and written an ode. T...

Books by camel The camel library - Learning lifeline for children in Pakistan The Guardian 4/27/21 Shah Meer Baloch Sharatoon had wanted to continue her studies, but she had to leave school and her beloved books when she got married at the age of 15. Now 27, Sharatoon has been...

How Biden’s boring facade belies his bold agenda ‘There’s a feeling that everything’s going to be OK with Biden there, and that’s the antithesis of what I felt under Trump’’ Moe Vela Former adviser to Biden The Guardian 4/27/21 David Smith Washington ‘Just imagine,” tweeted Pe...

Slow vaccine rollout casts cloud over Olympics The Guardian 4/27/21 Justin McCurry More than two months after it began its vaccination programme, Japan lags behind the rest of the developed world, raising questions about its preparedness and doubts about the wisdom of holding...

Book sales soar £100m as Britons find escape from lockdown through fiction The Guardian 4/27/21 Alison Flood Fiction sales soared by more than £100m for UK publishers last year, as readers locked down at home made their escape into books. Figures from the Publishers Associatio...

From naked cookery to drumming in the nude, naturism is taking off The Guardian 4/27/21 Helen Pidd From naked pub quizzes to nude yoga, meditation and fitness classes – all, naturally, online – social nudity has experienced “exponential” growth under lockdown, according to the...

Would you pay £200 for an outfit that doesn’t exist? Daily Mail 4/26/21 By Radhika Sanghani THIS is not usual midweek behaviour for me. I’m standing in my garden, shivering in my underwear, as my neighbour takes my photograph. I am embarrassed in case anyone spots me acting li...

THE HEALTHYThe Benefits of CuddlingThe COVID-19 crisis has reminded us all that humans don’t just crave a hug or a friendly touch. We need it.BY CHARLOTTE HILTON ANDERSEN ILLUSTRATIONS BY JAMES STEINBERGWellness from THEHEALTHY.COM f053-01AS A NURSE working on the front line i...

Is this the most damning evidence yet Edward VIII was a Nazi spy? Devastatingly persuasive in its forensic detail, a brilliant new book’s deeply troubling accusationDaily Mail 4/24/21 By Dean Palmer Fresh from their honeymoon, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were looking forwa...

BOOM TIME for the golden oldies Daily Mail By Jane Fryer 4/23/21 Visit https://www.boomradiouk.com DIDDY David Hamilton is still reeling from the last year. ‘Just dreadful. Dreadful!’ he says, nestled in the cushions of his soft beige sofa. ‘Everything was cancelled. I couldn’...

Quentin, ever ready with a Crisp retort! Daily Mail Barrie Stacey, London WC2. BACK in the 1960s, a book came out titled The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp. After reading it, I felt I had known Mr Crisp for ever. his lifestyle was new, his novel outstanding, and it rapid...

Love Marmite? You’ll hate this ...there’s a drought at the shopsDaily MailBy Sean Poulter Consumer Affairs EditorBREAKFAST has become a little more miserable for Marmite lovers – as a national ‘drought’ leaves many supermarket shelves bare.Supply of the much loved – and hated...

UH-OH: SPAGHETTIOS SHORTAGE LIKE MANY kids, 11-year-old Ashlyn MacDonald of Attleboro, Mass. has a favorite meal: SpaghettiOs with meatballs, which she eats at least once a day, and sometimes three times. Unlike other kids, Ashlyn's need for this comfort food is serious. She i...

SWEARING INCREASES PAIN TOLERANCE In a recent experiment, 92 volunteers held their hands in an ice bath while repeating either actual expletives or the fake swear words ‘twizpipe’ and ‘fouche’. Using real swear words boosted participants’ pain tolerance by 33 per cent. The fak...

Topic #1Extended Reality XR is the combination of real and virtual environments via AR, VR, and wearable tech. The global XR market is estimated to reach $105B by 2030 (CAGR of 48.3%). Interestingly, most of the growth in the VR/AR space isn't from gaming. Instead, XR's growth...

RD NZ MAR 2020 Adult Autism: HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT Sometimes the condition is not diagnosed until well into adulthood. The news can be both a shock and a relief BY LISA FIELDS After a particularly stressful day at work three years ago, engineer Jo Bervoets, 51, headed home, on...

BBC Science Focus 3/21 / FEATURE INTERVIEW ALEXA, TELL ME A STORY Dr Lara Martin wants to teach artificial intelligence how to tell a tale and tell it well. She reveals to Amy Barrett why we need to train machines how to be storytellers and what Dungeons & Dragons has to d...

Threepenny Review MAR 2021 IN THIS ISSUE The Great Poet Basho Begins His Journey —ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI (TRANSLATED FROM THE POLISH BY CLARE CAVANAGH) After lengthy preparationsthe great poet Basho begins his journey.The very first day he happensto walk past a sobbing childabandoned...

BIG QS Pop Sci / POSTCARD Why save dying languages? BY HANNAH SEO LINGUIST NICHOLAS EVANS had heard the Kaiadilt people, an Aboriginal group in Northern Australia, utter “malji” on the beach many times. He knew the term meant “schools of mullet” and “holes of a fishing net,” b...

As Morihei Ueshiba was lying on his deathbed, someone asked him if this was the end of the world. "This is the end of the world," he said. "What goal did you pursue?" "The way of heaven. To look young forever, to have eternal youth." "Is this possible?" "I don't know. They say...

IT HAS THEM WITHIN ITSELF AS AN IMAGE IN A MIRRORGINA FRANCOnature of the hour:the line marks the woundin the art of the frame: first things makesecondthings, then minutely, last things andno-longer-things: this be/comingthe unseen, the shadowlandthreat by way of remove,this i...