Where's the Beef? - Longreads
Longreadsby Carolyn Wells20 Aug 2026
Do you remember the media frenzy over lab-grown meat? Why, several years later, has it not become a supermarket staple?
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‘Oh, we are completely done’: People discuss the moment they realized, with just one single sentence, that their relationship had to be over and there was no turning back from it.
FAIL Blogby María Cetra20 Aug 2026
‘Oh, we are completely done’: People discuss the moment they realized, with just one single sentence, that their relationship had to be over and there was no turning back from it.
top 5%Where Love Goes When It Goes
The Marginalianby Maria Popova20 Aug 2026
Where Love Goes When It Goes By Maria Popova This is an excerpt from Traversal. Where does love go when it goes?
Disappearing Ink: Essays in Early Modern Philosophy - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Morgan Meis20 Aug 2026
Karen Detlefsen at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: In his preface to this volume of Eileen O’Neill’s collected essays, Gary Ostertag notes two book projects that O’Neill discussed writing: one on...
No, Abhijeet Dipke, support from Tushar Gandhi is not the ‘biggest certificate’ of patriotism
OpIndiaby Shraddha Pandey20 Aug 2026
The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder and former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) functionary Abhijeet Dipke met Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s great-grandson, Tushar Gandhi, on 19th August.
How damaged teeth can reinforce stigma and disadvantage: conversations with street sex workers
The Conversation UKby Gemma Ahearne, Senior Lecturer Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, Part of School of Law and Social Justice, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Liverpool20 Aug 2026
For women involved in street sex work who took part in our research, damaged or missing teeth were more than a health problem.
Along Nigeria’s ‘spiritual highway’, prayer camps create a new urban future
The Conversation Africaby Marloes Janson, Professor of West African Anthropology, SOAS, University of London20 Aug 2026
The highway between Lagos and Ibadan was built in 1978 at the height of Nigeria’s oil boom. Lagos is the country’s largest city, with an estimated population of over 20 million, and Ibadan the...
The parenthood paradox: Parents are less joyful but feel more fulfilled
El País Englishby Rodrigo Santodomingo20 Aug 2026
When studied together, parenthood and happiness form two clearly distinct layers. In the foreground are sleepless nights and financial juggling. Endless negotiations and untimely crying.
Changing the history curriculum is not enough if English always dominates the classroom – South African study
The Conversation Africaby Simthembile Xeketwana, Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University20 Aug 2026
In many South African classrooms, learners continue to experience the subject of history through the language, concepts and perspectives inherited from colonial traditions.
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3 Quarks Dailyby Jim Culleny20 Aug 2026
It’s Alright Ma Darkness at the break of noon Shadows even the silver spoon The handmade blade, the child’s balloon Eclipses both the sun and moon To understand you know too soon there is no sense...
In a Himalayan Village, This Couple Replaced School for Nature, Travel & Carpentry to Raise Their 3 Kids
The Better Indiaby Nishtha Kawrani20 Aug 2026
This story is part of “Parenting: What Google Won’t Tell You” — The Better India’s people-led parenting series that goes beyond conventional advice to document how real families are actually...
Christian nationalists’ professed support for religious pluralism is often drowned out by perceptions that Christians are under threat
The Conversation (US)by Paul Djupe, Director of the Data for Political Research Program, Denison University20 Aug 2026
Christian nationalism, a worldview that sees the United States as a Christian nation and believes that Christianity should have a privileged role in American civic life, has been shown to be...
America in 2026: A Society in Imperial Decline
Frontlineby Aditya Sinha20 Aug 2026
I last visited America in 2022, during my father’s final Spring, and stayed for two and a half months, squeezing in a visit to Peoria, Illinois, and Boulder, Colorado, for my youngsters.
You’re sure that society is spiralling and we’re all doomed. Now what? | Psyche Videos
Psycheby Psyche Video20 Aug 2026
From the climate crisis, to the breakneck pace of technological change, to the threat of further pandemics, there’s no shortage of reasons you could find to throw up your hands and proclaim ‘the...
How to rediscover your purpose later in life | Psyche Guides
Psycheby Denise Taylor20 Aug 2026
is a chartered psychologist and author of 10 books, including ThriveSpan: Walking Gently Into What Matters Now (2026).
Why the Andoque of the Amazon fear the seductive dolphin | Aeon Essays
Aeonby Eliran Arazi20 Aug 2026
Listen to this essay 41 minute listen ‘A nasty one, the dolphin,’ Derode grumbled when he returned home, trading the humid heat of an Amazonian afternoon for the cool, sheltered interior.
How to Bear Your Loneliness
The Marginalianby Maria Popova20 Aug 2026
How to Bear Your Loneliness By Maria Popova “You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love,” the artist Louise Bourgeois wrote in her diary.
Miu Miu’s Bubble Sneakers Bring New Meaning to the 'Wrong Shoe' Trend
Fashion - ELLEby Matthew Velasco19 Aug 2026
Skinny shoes may be having a moment, but Miuccia Prada is still thinking big. And even bulbous. For Miu Miu fall/winter 2026, the designer sent a series of dotted trainers down the runway, some...
How to Hold Death and Carry Life: A Zen Master Explains Existence to a Child and Outlines the Three Essential Principles of Zen Mind
The Marginalianby Maria Popova19 Aug 2026
How to Hold Death and Carry Life: A Zen Master Explains Existence to a Child and Outlines the Three Essential Principles of Zen Mind By Maria Popova If death is so enormous a mystery that we remain...
The Real Meaning of the Jason Arday Scandal
The New Yorkerby Lauren Michele Jackson19 Aug 2026
A couple of years ago, a self-styled “race-realist” named Nathan Cofnas wrote a blog post about racial difference.